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Wouldn't that make a woman feel like thirty cents if anything would. Here Pearl's gloomy reflections overcame her and she sobbed aloud. Mrs. Motherwell looked up apprehensively "What are you crying for, Pearl?" she asked not unkindly. Then, oh, how Pearl wanted to point her finger at Mrs.
And all of Miss Hetty's questions convinced her that Pearl's religion was limited to the knowledge that God lives "up there." Periwinkle admitted that he knew little more except that their mother had told them that God always sees them.
"Forgotten you? Yes, if forgetting Is thinking all the day How the long days pass without you. Days seem years with you away!" Pearl's voice had a reedy mellowness, and an appeal which sent the words straight into Mary's practical heart. Mary, washing dishes below, stopped, with a saucer in her hand, and listened open-mouthed:
One of these seafaring men the shipmaster, indeed, who had spoken to Hester Prynne was so smitten with Pearl's aspect, that he attempted to lay hands upon her, with purpose to snatch a kiss. Finding it as impossible to touch her as to catch a humming-bird in the air, he took from his hat the gold chain that was twisted about it, and threw it to the child.
"She's the swellest girl in these parts" this with the air of a man who had weighed many feminine charms and found them wanting. "Has she eyes like stars, lips like cherries, neck like a swan, and a laugh like a ripple of music?" Pearl asked eagerly. "Them's it," Tom replied modestly. "Then I'd go, you bet!" was Pearl's emphatic reply. "There's your mother calling."
Seen in the brook once more was the shadowy wrath of Pearl's image, crowned and girdled with flowers, but stamping its foot, wildly gesticulating, and, in the midst of all, still pointing its small forefinger at Hester's bosom.
"O Pearl," he cried, drawing away from her, "O Pearl you're a hard girl to give up you make me forget all my good resolutions. I don't want to do what I ought to do. I just want you." There was a smothered cry in his voice that smote on Pearl's heart with a sudden fear. Mothers know the different notes in their children's cries and in Pearl, the maternal instinct was strong.
At four o'clock there came another message which set Pearl's heart dancing, and spotted her cheeks with a glowing color the operation was over apparently successful and they were driving back to town. The other train might be late too, so it would be impossible for him to come out but would she still wait? Did the thousand year limit still hold?
It is only in the silence and light of the desert that men may fully realize that the universe is one, that light is music and music is color and color is fragrance, undifferentiated in the eternal harmony of beauty. Pearl's eyes drank the desert, unconsciously seeking there in its haunting enigmas and unsolved mysteries an answer to the enigma of self.
You know her why don't you answer me girl? Is there no hope that she might forgive me?" Pearl stepped back without a word, as Annie Gray came quickly across the lawn. She had been standing in the shade of a maple tree, waiting for Pearl's signal. A cry broke from Mrs. Graham, Jim's mother, a welcoming cry of joy. The old man rose to his feet, uncertainly holding out both his hands.
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