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But we don't want to see him " Selma shuddered and covered her eyes with her hands " lying dead in some alley, shot or stabbed by some unknown thug!" Selma made it so vivid that Jane saw the whole tragedy before her very eyes.
It was as much as to say that they do not think us good enough to meet their new friends." Littleton, who still found difficulty in remembering that his wife would not always enjoy the humor of an equivocal situation, was sorry that he had spoken. "Come, Selma," he said, "there's no use in taking that view of the matter. You would not really care to meet the other people."
Illogical as was the theory that a healthy dog which had bitten him should be killed at once, lest it subsequently go mad and he contract hydrophobia, he was too happy and complacent to run the risk of letting it live. So it was with regard to baby. But Selma chose the name.
Both women were in high spirits, and Selma was agreeably conscious that people were observing them. Before the repast was over a messenger brought a note to Mr.
By the end of their first year and a half of marriage, Selma realized that this necessity still stood, almost like a wolf at the door, between her and the free development of her desires and aspirations. New York prices were appalling; the demands of life in New York still more so. They had started house-keeping on a more elaborate scale than she had been used to in Benham. As Mrs.
She went to see Selma as often as she could, and encouraged her to call at her lodgings on the mornings when she was at home, expecting that it might please her sister-in-law to become familiar with the budding educational enterprises, and that thus a fresh bond of sympathy would be established between them.
Farley, with motherly distrust of man, apprehensively followed with her eyes and arms the gyrations of rise and fall; but Selma, though she saw, pursued the current of her own thought which prompted her to examine her wedding-ring. She was thinking that, compared with Mrs. Taylor's, it was a cart wheel a clumsy, conspicuous band of metal, instead of a delicate hoop.
I believe he is ready to give up everything for this creed that has him in its grasp." A violent ringing of the bell brought Selma to the door. It was Henrik, who had forgotten his latch key. He hung up his hat, wiped the perspiration from his face, for it was a warm evening; then he said cheerily: "Spring is coming; I feel it in the air.
"Marx was a a Hebrew wasn't he?" Selma's eyes danced, and Jane felt that she was laughing at her hesitation and choice of the softer word. Selma said: "Yes he was a Jew. Both were Jews." "Both?" inquired Jane, puzzled. "Marx and Jesus," explained Selma. Jane was startled. "So HE was a Jew wasn't He?" "And they were both labor leaders labor agitators.
The clergyman was baffled. Other plans! The words offended him, and yet he could not dispute her right to do as she chose. Still he saw fit to murmur: "He that findeth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Selma flushed. To be accused of acting contrary to Christian precepts was painful and surprising to her. "Mr.
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