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The associations amid which I was now living had their softening effect on my heart, their elevating influence over my mind. I reproached myself, bitterly reproached myself, for not having written more fully and frankly to Eustace. Why had I hesitated to sacrifice to him my hopes and my interests in the coming investigation?
Malaria is unknown, and, in spite of the heavy rains, there is no such thing as damp. Our way lay through very pretty country a series of terraces, with a range of mountains before us, with beautiful changing and softening evening tints creeping over the whole. I am sorry to say, we leave this next week. I should like to explore a great deal more. Letter VI: Society. houses and servants.
But I may perhaps without dishonour reproduce one of these letters, and my answer to it, inasmuch as the date is now months ago, and the softening hand of Time has woven its roses how shall I put it? the mellow haze of reminiscences has what I mean is that the young man has gone back to work and is all right again.
In the midst of these varying thoughts she allowed her softening eyes to wander from him toward the trees above and the straggling brush beneath their knotty limbs. A suppressed scream called the Captain's attention to her staring eyes. They were blinking with consternation. Deep in the underbrush she had seen the form of an Indian warrior! Horrors! The sword!
The weariness of an arduous day added its softening influence, and he drifted out upon the sea of dreams and thence into a deep slumber, while yet his pipe was unfinished. While Harding sat talking to Brennan in the office, Bessie came to him with a note. "Mrs. Eustace asked me to give you this, sir," the girl said, as she handed it to him at the door. He tore open the envelope.
Indeed, it was admitted by the chaplain and other witnesses for the prosecution that the young lady had a softening influence on her husband, and that he became less exacting with his tenants, less harsh to peasants and dependents, and less subject to the fits of gloomy silence which had darkened his widow-hood.
There is no need now to reply to the question you asked me: the incident you have witnessed, and what you have heard, has been its answer." The young lady did not sit down; she stood looking at him, her eyes softening a trifle. "Is it true, then?" she cried. "Is what true?" "That you are here as a hired guest?" "Yes, it is true." "Then why did you knock him down, if it was the truth?"
"And when'll he be comin' along?" "To-morrow, if you wish. I have a man I could send to-night. He isn't here now or I'd have him talk with you. I'll talk to him, though, and make everything clear. You needn't worry about anything. Your daughter's reputation will be safe in his hands." "Thank you kindly," commented Butler, softening the least bit in a gingerly way. "I'm much obliged to you.
Now, I want you, his voice softening again, 'to try and think better of me; not to judge by appearances, or to take other people's judgments, but to be as true and charitable to me as you are to others. Promise me this before you go, Miss Garston. I do not know why the tears started to my eyes. I could hardly answer him. 'Will you try to do this? he persisted, stooping over me.
If there's one black sin under our roof-tree, we won't open the door to another. He put his arm round her in a tender way. 'Come, achora, he said, as if he were humouring a child, 'come and lie down. You're not well, you creature. 'Oh Tom, said the mother, softening all at once, 'the black shame's on me, and I'll never be well again in this world.
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