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Lord Hartledon's private opinion, looking on, was that she was literally incapable of denying him any earthly thing he chose to demand. He went out. "He had better go with you in the carriage, Maude." "Not at all. He sits very well now, and the pony's perfectly quiet." "But he is too young to ride by the side of any vehicle. It is not safe. Let him sit with you as usual." "Nonsense!
He was sure of it a moment after when, as if the nature of her thoughts had changed suddenly, she said to him: 'Yes, you have been very kind to me, you and Maude you and Maude and I shan't forget it. Tell her I shan't forget it. I shan't forget it. She repeated this rapidly, and was growing so wild and excited that Frank thought it advisable to leave her.
Maude was silent; but the thought which she was revolving in her mind was whether any great saint had ever asked such a question of Him who to her was only "holy Mary's Son." Of course it would have to be asked through Mary. No one, not even the greatest saint, considered Maude, had ever spoken direct to Him, except in a vision. The next remark of the Countess rather startled her.
May I inquire which of the two you really care for?" "Anne I suppose." "You suppose!" "You make me wild, talking like this. Of course it's Anne. Maude has managed to creep into my regard, though, in no common degree. She is very lovely, very fascinating and amiable."
And he will make friendships that will help him in a larger school." "I don't intend to send him," Maude said. "But if I think it wise?" "You ought to have begun to consider such things many years ago. You have always been too busy to think of the children. You have left them to me. I am doing the best I can with them." "But a man should have something to say about boys. He understands them."
Maude was frank, open-hearted, and impulsive, and emboldened by James' kind, brotherly manner she gave in a most childlike manner her reason for wishing to teach. "If I am married next winter," she said, "my wardrobe will need replenishing, for J.C. would surely be ashamed to take me as I am, and I have now no means of my own for purchasing anything."
Then looking intently in Maude's face she continued. "You've grown handsome, child." "No, no, not handsome, Janet; Nellie is the beauty of the house," and Maude shook her head mournfully, for on the subject of beauty she was a little sensitive, her sister always pronouncing her "a fright," and manifesting a most unamiable spirit if anyone complimented her in the least.
Will I be lame, there, think you?" "Oh, Louis, Louis, what do you mean?" cried Maude, and as well as he could, for the tears he shed, Louis told her what he meant. "Father don't love me because I'm lame, and he called me a cripple, too. What is a cripple, Maude? Is it anything very bad?" and his beautiful brown eyes turned anxiously toward his sister.
"Ah, that I will I will," came faintly from the hall without, where Maude Glendower stood, her eyes riveted upon the upturned face of Maude, and her whole body swelling with emotion.
There was Matthew, for instance, the oldest. When he arrived, he was to Maude a never-ending miracle, she would have his crib brought into her room, and I would find her leaning over the bedside, gazing at him with a rapt expression beyond my comprehension. To me he was just a brick-red morsel of humanity, all folds and wrinkles, and not at all remarkable in any way.
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