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Jean made no reply but stood there with her eyes fixed upon Nell's face. They were wild eyes, and they caused Nell to tremble. Was Jean mad? she wondered, and what would she do with her? What did she want, anyway? "Won't you sit down?" she asked, not knowing what else to say. Jean took a step or two forward, and so fierce was her look that Nell shrank back.
Douglas noted that Nell's face became somewhat pale. Her clear eyes, filled with courage, never wavered. She had made up her mind and he knew that nothing could change her from her purpose. She did not at once reply to Ben's request. "Get in," he ordered, "and don't be foolish." "I tell you I prefer to walk," she repeated. "I am quite satisfied with my own company this afternoon."
"You did not fall off," the master comments, coiling the lash of the long whip with which he has stood beside the hurdle during Miss Nell's performance, "but you did not guard yourself against falling when you went up, and had you had some horses, you might have come down before he did, although that is not so easy for a lady as it is for a man.
She received Nell's apology for being so late with perfect good humour, and said that she should not have roused her if she had slept on until noon. 'Because it does you good, said the lady of the caravan, 'when you're tired, to sleep as long as ever you can, and get the fatigue quite off; and that's another blessing of your time of life you can sleep so very sound.
'I'm 'fraid he's goin' to down you. Ain't thar no way to fix it? Can't Dan yere settle with this Red Dog man? "'Cert, says Dan Boggs, 'an' I makes the trip too gleeful. Jest to spar' Nell's feelin's, Cherokee, an' not to interfere with no gent's little game, I takes your hand an' plays it. "'Not none, says Cherokee; 'this is my deal. Don't cry, Nellie, he adds, smoothin' down her yaller ha'r.
This is a letter I received to-day telling me about it. I invested largely in that concern, and so am greatly interested." Douglas made no reply to this most gratifying information. His mind had gone back to Rixton and the little cottage by the river-side. He pictured to himself the expression upon Nell's face and the look of joy in her eyes when she heard the good news.
Worse, we dread and persecute those who can see and declare the truth, because their sincerity and insight reflects on our delusion and blindness. We are all like Nell Gwynne's footman, who defended Nell's reputation with his fists, not because he believed her to be what he called an honest woman, but because he objected to be scorned as the footman of one who was no better than she should be.
Next morning, with a grief so bitter that even now I cannot look back upon it unmoved, I chose another site for a grave and laid my beloved dead to rest side by side, marking the spot as I had marked the grave of Nell's father; leaving the remains of the savages to be dealt with by the vultures, hyenas, and jackals.
Anything on?" "Yes big spree at Nell's. Will you go?" "Sure thing; you know me! What time?" "Meet us at the Willard by nine. S'long." "Good-bye." She slowly, half guiltily, replaced the receiver. She had not meant to listen, but now to her desperate longing to keep him home was added a new motive. Where was "Nell's"? What was "Nell's"? What was and there was fear in her heart.
The situation was trying; but we were both to blame, and now we must make the best of it. Myra Nell's misunderstanding is complete, and she will be unhappy unless you devote yourself to her." "I simply can't. I think I'll keep to myself as much as possible." "You don't know that girl," Vittoria said.
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