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Updated: May 1, 2025
They were rather a depressing set of men, and Holland, as seen from the carriage window a snow-clad plain intersected by frozen ditches and canals was no more enlivening. The temperature was deadly cold; the dull houses were rime-covered and forbidding. The malgamite makers had been gathered together from all parts of the world in a home specially organized for them in London.
Maggie obeyed with her usual breezy readiness, turning to nod reassurance to Etta, who, truth to tell, had pulled up the rime-covered windows, shutting out the whole scene. "He must come inside," said Maggie. "We are nice and warm with all the hot-water cans." Paul looked rather dubiously toward the sleigh. "You can carry him, I suppose?" said the girl cheerfully.
She glanced at him and caught her breath. The priest shook his head. "Why not? Because you are too charitable?" she whispered; and again he shook his head. "Then, why not?" she persisted with a strange pertinacity. "Because he is your brother, mademoiselle." And they stood for some moments looking out over the sea, through the rime-covered windows, in a breathless silence.
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