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"And Marion has always thought that if she had believed that way, she could have kept me up to it; and so when I died I should have lived again. It is perfectly logical, though it isn't capable of a practical demonstration. If Marion had come of a believing family, she could have brought me back into the fold.
When Eve had gone out, Marion spoke to David. "Do be sensible, sir," she said, "or the mistress will fret herself to death. Make some money to pay off your debts, and then you can try to find treasure at your ease " "Don't talk, Marion," said David; "I am going to overcome my last difficulty, and then I can apply for the patent and the improvement on the patent at the same time."
Some one is at the cottage door." "It is probably Mr. McCloud and Dicksie. I will let them in." McCloud and Dicksie met them at the porch door. Marion, unnerved, went directly to her room. Whispering Smith stopped to speak to Dicksie and McCloud interposed. "Bob Scott telephoned the office just now he had a man from Oroville who wanted to see you right away, Gordon," said he.
He had met the doctor at the Oldville tavern the evening before, and bowed stiffly. "I am sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Ruthven," said the doctor; "but I am curious to visit the old wreck on Hemlock Bluff rocks. Perhaps this man has another boat " "Oh, it doesn't matter, Dr. Mackey," answered St. John. "You are evidently a cousin to Miss Marion Ruthven." "I am."
The withdrawal of the former, with his troops, from the region of country which they had so lately covered, was the signal for that rising of the loyalists upon the Pedee, to instigate which the unfortunate emissary of General Leslie had been dispatched from Charleston. The absence of Marion was considered auspicious to the new movement.
I'm considerably doubtful about your politics, Morrison." "I hope you don't intend to read me out of the party, sir! But if that question is in doubt, please permit me to be here as the mayor of the city of Marion. There's no doubt about my being that!" "Let me remind you that this is the State House, not City Hall." "But tolerate me for a few minutes! I beg of you, sir!
Both of these youths paid marked attention to Marion at least Miles thought so and he hated them both accordingly; all the more that he felt their eyes to be fixed upon him while he was bidding her "farewell." He did not say "Good-bye." That was too commonplace in the circumstances almost childish.
It would be sufficient answer, however, that the work is worth doing for its own sake and its immediate result. Surely it will receive a well-done from the Judge of us all; and while his idea of right remains above hers, high as the heavens are above the earth, his approbation will be all that either Lady Bernard or Marion will seek.
"What's he agreed to?" said her father unheeded. "I can't marry at a registry office," said Marion, sallow-white. "Very well," I said. "I'll marry nowhere else." "I can't marry at a registry office." "Very well," I said, standing up, white and tense and it amazed me, but I was also exultant; "then we won't marry at all." She leant forward over the table, staring blankly.
Welcome home, old boy! Well, well, well! if you ain't a sight to cure the headache! Yes, yes; it's all right. This is Marion. We've got to stop at Aleck's first. Remember Aleck? Remember Janet and her sugar? Well, well, well!" Ninian approached, amazed and incredulous, inquiring: "Think that creature knows what you're saying?" "Forty-niner" turned upon the questioner indignantly.
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