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I implore you to leave her alone! She'll do no harm. Let her rest. Let the poor creature rest. If if the police " At that moment there was a shout from the yard outside. Carrie sprang like a hare up the stairs to the window, and looked out with straining eyes. The afternoon was one of those dull misty winter days, with a leaden sky and an east wind.
"Will you let the maid try if she can iron it out, or clean it, Ma'am?" "No, she'll only make bad worse.-But look here, now, here's a cloak! Mon Dieu! why it looks like a dish-clout!
Probably she'll remain at the hotel over night, and go back to the city to-morrow." "She could go to our house to stay," said Marjorie. She was still crying, but she loved to make plans. "Then she could telephone the lessons over to Delight, and I could learn a little too. Oh, I won't have to go to school for two weeks!"
"I was speakin' of that very thing to Ben to-day. I should really think his mother would like somebody; somebody young and and pleasant, you know." "Well," returned Charlotte, breaking open a biscuit, "I suppose havin' got rid of her husband she thinks she'll let well enough alone. She's the happiest-lookin' woman in town. Why not? She's got the most money and no man to bother her."
"Is it here now? May I see it? Is the angel still here?" "No, the angel has gone. But the baby is left. It is Stella's very own, and she is to take care of it." "Oh, I hope she'll let me help her!" murmured Tessa in awe-struck accents. "Does Uncle Everard know yet?" "Yes. He and I got here in the night two or three hours after the baby arrived. He was very tired, poor chap. He is resting."
He'd got it stowed away for'ard somewheres, and by the time I found it she was driftin' putty bad. I found a good bottom for her and made things fast before I left. I reckon she'll hold." "Won't he be down himself to look after her?" "Mebbe not. It's a goodish step, from his place, down and back. He knows I keep an eye out for her. "Why doesn't he anchor up there," said the artist, "near by?"
"I can't stand this any longer," he said. "I'm going over the wall." I struck a match and looked at my watch. "It isn't eleven o'clock yet," I warned him. "I don't care. Perhaps she'll be ahead of time. Anyway, I might as well wait there as here." "Come on, then," I agreed, for I felt myself that another such hour would be unendurable.
"Hadn't we better take in a reef or two?" "Not if you wish to get aboard your ship, sir, before night," answered father. "I know my boat, and I know what she'll do. Trust me, sir, and in less than half-an-hour you'll be safe alongside the Intrepid."
She'll be safe, ez long ez they're travellin'; but if they ever git to where they're going, well judge, I'd rather see the pretty little critter layin' right here, dead, than to meet her, that's sartin." I immediately sought the lieutenant, and informed him of the terrible facts I had just learned.
The house seemed strangely empty, and Paul thought his father looked lost, forlorn, and old. "You'll have to go and see her next week, father," he said. "I hope she'll be a-whoam by that time," said Morel. "If she's not," said Paul, "then you must come." "I dunno wheer I s'll find th' money," said Morel. "And I'll write to you what the doctor says," said Paul.
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