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Updated: May 5, 2025
"I can remember more than that. I can rememher the actual struggle. I got my meringue down on the mat, both shoulders touching, in one minute, forty-three seconds." The band died slowly down until no sound could be heard above the rustle of frocks ... and suddenly everybody realized that it had stopped. "Bother," said Miss Middleton. "That's just like a band," I said bitterly.
So I went on possessed with a dread that had been with me for days, that had kept me awake for hours in the night: Had I, in any of my talks with Sylvia about venereal disease, mentioned blindness in infants as one of the consequences? I could not rememher; but now was the time I would find out!
"You must hold yourself in readiness," he said, recovering himself with an effort, "to give yourself up at any moment. And, rememher, I shall call upon you when I please, every week, perhaps, or oftener, to see that you are safe. Your aunt is an old friend of mine, and there will be no need of explanations.
'You shall convey the substance of what I say in your own language. The immiment danger this morning announced of an execution rememher the word, and he spelled it for me 'being put into this house either this afternoon or to-morrow, compels me to anticipate my plans, and despatch you for France this day.
"No," said he, shaking his head, "that is not it. But, no matter, he's a fine horse, and if you leave here or wish to sell him at any time, I hope you will rememher and give me a first chance." He was astonished at the result of his harmless proposal. "Sir," said the little lady, her gray eyes filling and her voice choking with emotion, "that was my only brother's favorite horse.
"You must hold yourself in readiness," he said, recovering himself with an effort, "to give yourself up at any moment. And, rememher, I shall call upon you when I please, every week, perhaps, or oftener, to see that you are safe. Your aunt is an old friend of mine, and there will be no need of explanations.
But it was very hard for me to give up my dream of the girl's purity; I rememher I thought of Heine's 'Thou art as a flower, and my heart was full of prayer.
"If I begin to invite my friends and neighbors, our cottage lawn and garden included would not contain them, and after all were asked whom I could rememher, as many more would be mortally offended at being forgotten."
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