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But, oh, Nick, though I'm not a widow, I was never any man's wife except in name. I'm Franklin Merriam's daughter you must have heard of him. And when I was seventeen I married Prince Paolo di Sereno. That very day I found out there was some one who had more right to him that I had. She came, and threatened to kill herself. You see, it was not me, it was money he cared for.
There were also silken hose and satin shoes with it, and these were to be put on, and a wrought lace tucker fastened with a pearl brooch. It was the costume she had worn one Sabbath day back in her youth, when she had looked across the meeting-house and her eyes had met young Thomas Merriam's; but nobody knew nor remembered; even young Evelina thought it was simply a vagary of her dead cousin's.
The MacMorroghs' bookkeeper, a man named Merriam who is at present in Copah, and whose deposition I have had taken before a justice of the peace was detailed to win Frisbie over to the change of route no difficult thing, since the change was for the better. But Merriam's part was chiefly to keep Frisbie from finding out anything about Ford's mine; which he did. Am I making it clear?"
"Merriam's a trump and no mistake," said Jack. "By the way, when you see him again, father, just mention that you've got a son. Ain't we in luck, Aunt Rachel?" "Boast not overmuch," said his aunt. "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." "I never knew Aunt Rachel to be jolly but once," said Jack under his breath; "and that was at a funeral."
I know we can't afford to pay Miss Merriam's salary; I am afraid we've got to call on the grownups for that but we can do something and we must, and we ought to find out about it exactly." "Mrs. Emerson is paying half Miss Merriam's salary," explained Dorothy. "And Aunt Louise the other half," added Ethel Brown.
The two men saw in imagination the helpless girl and the tiny remote cabin. Scott leaned forward, devouring the road with despairing eyes. Hard sat beside him, quiet except when he answered Merriam's questions, sparing Scott, whose impatience and irritation made speech unendurable. The new road led directly into the foothills. It was narrow and very rough.
You'd think they might be glad to do a little favor for you." She looked at him contemptuously, but he took no notice. "Or how about your old friend Rachael or Constance Merriam?" "Constance Merriam's been dead a year, and I wouldn't ask Rachael." "Well, how about that gentleman who was so anxious to help you once that he could hardly restrain himself, Bloeckman?"
"Can't continue under her care!" repeated the Ethels in unison. "Why can't she? What do you mean?" "Why, on account of Miss Merriam's leaving. Of course you know. I hope I haven't betrayed any confidence." "Miss Merriam's leaving!" exclaimed the Ethels as one girl. "We don't know anything about it!" "Where is she going?" "When is she going?" The questions poured thick and fast and Mr.
The result was an increase of my mental disturbance. They were brown, shining hands, laden with rings, and, in the added light, under which I saw them, bore a strange resemblance to the bronze hand I had just left in Dr. Merriam's office.
She could hardly bear even to hear this proposal from the codfish, for a pilgrimage to the Missions of California had been a dream of Franklin Merriam's. He and she were to have followed the footsteps of the Franciscan Fathers, stage by stage; and if a Mission here or there were falling into ruin, Merriam had talked of offering to restore it at his own expense.
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