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Don't meet on corners or in the park, and and the next time you're engaged don't let a girl think you're going to wait indefinitely. If she isn't willing to marry you and go to Pungo if necessary, she isn't the girl for you to marry. Good night." At the door I turned. Tom was still standing at the foot of the steps, staring at me, in his face slow-dawning understanding.
"Stop no, why should I? She'll learn soon enough now and I'm m-man enough to tell her myself I'm no c-coward, I tell you " Then Cleone raised her head and looked up at her half-brother, and in her eyes were a slow-dawning fear and horror. "Oh, Ronald!" she whispered, "what do you mean?" "Mean?" cried Barrymaine, "I mean that I did it I did it.
"Well, the first thing I had to do, as you may suppose, to make me fit to look at her, was to wipe my eyes. I put my hand in my pocket; then my first hand in the breast pocket; then the other hand in the other pocket; and the slow-dawning awful truth became apparent, that here was a great brute of a curate, who had been crying like a baby, and had no handkerchief.
Here was the simplicity, the sweetness of a girl contending with new and strange and enthralling emotions here the living truth of innocence; here the blind terror of a woman confronted with the thought of death to her savior and protector. All this Venters saw, but, besides, there was in Bess's eyes a slow-dawning consciousness that seemed about to break out in glorious radiance.
Her long, straight nose was all puckered tight with interrogation. Her dove-like eyes were fairly dilated with slow-dawning astonishment. "You don't mean?" she gasped. "You don't mean that just for that ?" Incredulously she jumped to her feet and stood staring blankly into the city girl's strangely illuminated features. Quite against all intention Helene Churchill laughed. She did not often laugh.
Next morning she found herself looking out at the rough gray and black land of New Mexico. She searched the horizon for mountains, but there did not appear to be any. She received a vague, slow-dawning impression that was hard to define. She did not like the country, though that was not the impression which eluded her.
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