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When I say a doctor, he is no longer recognized by the B.M.A., but he's none the less clever and kind for all that." To the clever and kind medical man Rita repaired on the following day, bearing a written introduction from her friend. The discredited physician supplied her for a short time, charging only moderate fees. Then, suddenly, this second source of supply was closed.
The dimpler is trying to take you from Rita, and if you are not careful your fool conscience will help her to do it." "If Rita will forgive me," said Dic. "She'll forgive you sooner or later," answered Billy. "Her love and forgiveness are benedictions she cannot withhold nor you escape."
Patricia had just come from a flying visit to little Rita Stanford, whom she had suspected, from certain little sounds coming over her open transom, to be crying, and the contrast to that heroic little person putting aside her fresh grief to try to be entertaining to the newcomer in her hall made Patricia suddenly rather contemptuous of this worshipful attitude toward the mere accessories of life.
Rita went hurriedly into Tom's room and put on the great-coat, made of coonskins, a pair of squirrel-skin gloves, and a heavy beaver cap with curtains that fell almost to her shoulders. She also drew over her shoes a pair of heavy woollen stockings; and thus arrayed, she ran down the stairway to the back yard. Flurrying to the stable, she led out "Old Buck," Mr.
Had Rita been Eve, there would have been no fall. After several efforts to speak, she said, "Now you will not go to New York, will you?" "Why, Rita," he responded confidently, "of course I'll go. There is more reason now for my going than ever before." "Why more now than ever before?" asked the girl. "Because I want money that I may support you," he responded.
She did so. Tom laughed, and all agreed with one accord that it was against the rules of the game to drop the handkerchief behind a brother or sister. Then Rita again took up her burden, which by that time was a heavy one indeed. She had always taken her burdens to Dic, so she took this one to him and dropped it.
So long, indeed, as Cowperwood was genuinely promiscuous, so long as he trotted here and there, not snared by any particular siren, she could not despair, for, after all, she had ensnared him and held him deliciously without variation, she believed, for all of ten years a feat which no other woman had achieved before or after. Rita Sohlberg might have succeeded the beast!
"I'll explain it all to you, Miss Rita," began Graham's deep voice, as he advanced from a recess. "Oh, the powers! are you here?" and she started back and looked at him with dismay. "Yes," said he, "and I merely wished to explain that my friend Windom was in the cavalry, and from much fighting with your brave, impetuous hard-riders we gradually fell into their habits."
And he in his abstraction had been trying to think what could be done; for the bonds were lost to him: they were not in the place where he had concealed them. What that place really was he now knew only too well. Had that fiend Rita found them? Perhaps so yet perhaps not. On the whole, as a last resort, he concluded that it would be best to appeal to Don Carlos.
"Have you heard that the prisoners are to be shot to-morrow?" Paco started. "And Don Luis with them?" The Count nodded affirmatively. "It will be the death of Doña Rita," exclaimed Paco with blunt passion. "Speak to the general you can do it. He will not refuse Señor Herrera's life, if you ask it." "You are mistaken," said Villabuena; "in that quarter there is no hope.
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