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Updated: May 15, 2025
Anna, pacing her chamber, with every gesture of self-arraignment and distress, heard him gallop. Then standing in her opened window she looked off across the veranda's balustrade and down into the camp, where at lines of mess-fires like strings of burning beads the boys were cooking three days' rations. A tap came on her door. She snatched up a toilet brush: "Come in?"
At another moment she could have laughed at the tragic force of his self-arraignment. Even as it was, she barely repressed a smile as she set his mind at rest. She needed no explanation. It was easy enough to follow the trend of his thoughts just then. "If you are thinking of me," she said, "I have had it." She saw his instant relief, though he merely acknowledged the statement by a nod.
Are you sure there won't come a time when you'll think, 'Oh, if only I had never asked that noisy, nervous, nosing, messy, meddlesome, moping, miserable, growling, grumbling, grouchy, greedy, galloping, galumphing Emma Dean to room with me?" "I don't know any such person," denied Grace, laughing merrily at Emma's remarkable self-arraignment.
"If I am sweet and agreeable one minute, and feel pleased with myself, I can surely count on doing something disagreeable the next. Now I have made Lillian and Phil cross with me and probably have hurt Miss Jenny Ann's feelings and spoiled this beautiful day for us all." Eleanor's soft voice broke in upon her self-arraignment. "Don't squabble, girls. The day is altogether too perfect.
The truth, though he did not fully understand it, he would always try to tell. He had no debts. The chairs in the studio were cleared of litter. A plebeian regularity had made him uncomfortably provident. So much for that part of his self-arraignment. One by one he marked the items out and stared with a twisted smile at the next. "I borrow Brian's girls, his money and his clothes!" Hum!
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