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Why are you laughing? 'Well, it came into my head how funny it would be, if the forty were all gathered into one room, and you were turned loose in the middle of them. 'Funny! Frank ejaculated. Women have such extraordinary ideas of humour. Maude laughed until she was quite tired. 'It doesn't strike you as comic? she cried at last. 'No, it doesn't, he answered coldly.
Maude was silent, and Eleanor wrapped her closer in the old cloak which enfolded both of them. But before the woman yielded herself up to the stupor which was benumbing her faculties, she passed her hand into her bosom, and drew out a little flat parcel, folded in linen, which she secreted in the breast of the child's dress. "Keep this, Maude," she said gravely.
Do you suppose he means all he says? No! No more than I do. When I get enough money, there won't be but one partner in that grocery store, and his name will be O. Strout." At the breakfast table next morning, Maude sat with her head bent over her plate. All were awaiting Olive's advent with the fruit. "At your devotions, Maude?" asked Alice.
'Maude, he whispered, with a lump in his throat, 'if you can hear me, I'd like to tell you I am sorry that I was ever mean to you, and I guess I did like you more than I supposed.
Some women go callous when they've had their fling. Maude was like that. She didn't care for me any more, she saw nothing in front of her but embarrassment and trouble if her affair with me was found out and as it was all in my hands I did the best I could think of, took the child away and placed it with kind country folks and removed myself from England and out of Maude's way altogether.
He could not even summon to his aid a maxim with which to season his farewell, and bidding a kind good-by to Maude, he sought the privacy of his chamber, where he could weep alone in his desolation. Hannah and John grieved to part with the travelers, but the latter was somewhat consoled by the gracious manner with which Maude had accepted his gift.
It will be fun for you, Maude, if you'll open your eyes and look on. There are some in the house now who " He stopped and laughed. "I would rather not hear this!" she cried passionately. "Don't tell me." Lord Hartledon looked at her, begged her pardon, and quitted the room with his cigar.
"It looks like that shriek's coming," Bill said. "God help that poor darn fool if Pap and Maude get a hold on him." "He came down with Murray," Kars said pondering. "Yes. He ought to have come around with his mam." Kars nodded. "Get a hold on him, Bill, when I'm gone. For God's sake get a hold on him. It's up to you." The mists hung drearily on snow-crowned, distant hilltops.
"I don't know," was Louis' answer, "only when he was here I fancied you were pleased with him, and that he would suit you better than J.C." "But he don't like me," said Maude. "He don't like any woman well enough to make her his wife," and she sighed deeply as she thought of his broken promise and the letter looked for so long.
He took her two hands in his; he clasped her to his heart, half devouring her face with passionate kisses. Ah, Lady Maude! this impassioned love was never felt for you. "You don't love her?" whispered Anne. "Love her! I never loved but you, my best and dearest. I never shall, or can, love another." He spoke in all good faith; fully believing what he said; and it was indeed true. And Anne?
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