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Updated: May 28, 2025
This had been a restful interval; but the sight of Paula, and the news he had to give her, threw him back into his old depressed and miserable mood. Little Mary, whose cheeks had recovered their roses and who looked quite well again, threw her arms round Paula's neck as she heard the evil tidings; but Paula herself was calmer than he had expected.
She made no immediate reply, but not long afterward she asked if she might not go away without waiting for Paula's return. "It would be too difficult, don't you think? for the three of us, in a small house like this." He agreed with manifest relief. He asked if it was not too late to drive that afternoon to Hickory Hill, but she said she'd prefer to go by train anyhow.
Close at hand, behind a low hedge, spread the thick, dark groves of Susannah's garden and between them the back of the house was visible, being more brilliantly lighted than even Paula's rooms. Three of the windows showed lights; two were rather dim, however, the result probably of one lamp only.
It always was in Paula's power to put an end to the "Water-wagtails tantrums" which generally had their comic side by a kind word or kiss; but without some such advances Katharina was quite capable of indulging her humors to the utmost.
On the present occasion she flew into Paula's arm, and when her friend begged, more quietly than usual that she would allow her first to finish dressing, she turned away without any display of touchiness and took the necklace from Mary's hand to put it on herself.
This had been a restful interval; but the sight of Paula, and the news he had to give her, threw him back into his old depressed and miserable mood. Little Mary, whose cheeks had recovered their roses and who looked quite well again, threw her arms round Paula's neck as she heard the evil tidings; but Paula herself was calmer than he had expected.
Tell her that she is mistaken, and if you are Paula's friend and you come to see her but prettily, through the gate, and not through the hedge, for it will be closely twined again by to-morrow morning if you come here, I say, you will find that we have a great deal to do and a great many creatures to nurse and care for poor human creatures some of them, and some with fur or feathers, just as it comes; and man serves his Maker if he only makes life easier to the beings that come in his way; for He loves them all.
For a good while after that, Teresa made no allusion whatever to what had transpired in our little bedroom on that first Sunday after Paula's arrival; but we noticed a great change in her conduct She did not work harder that would have been impossible neither was she more unselfish, for a more unselfish person than our dear old servant would have been hard to find.
He, generally so severe, so cold, and insensible in his attitude toward us, obeyed the slightest wish of his eldest daughter. And if if! she succeeded in preventing Paula's coming I felt that I would never, never pardon Catalina! But now I tried to embrace her. "Listen," I said; "father had to go out, but when he returns he will tell you the same thing that I have told you!"
Gamaliel, who had in fact come to warn Dame Joanna against Horapollo, had kept them informed of the progress of this day's sitting, and Paula's conduct to save her lover had increased Mary's admiration for her. When she should confront Amru she could answer him on every head, so she felt equipped at all points as she stole through the garden with Eudoxia, and down to the quay.
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