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And, of course, having settled the question in my own mind, I forgot to do that, and was like to have paid dearly for forgetting. Two nights afterward, when the moon was at the full, I woke from sleep suddenly with the surety that I heard my name called softly.
Why was I so wicked?" "Give it up." "My name. I told you a lie about it." "Is that all?" "Isn't that enough? I am Mavis Keeves. I am " "What?" he interrupted. "I didn't like to confess it before. Don't, please don't think very badly of me." "YOU little Mavis after all?" "Yes," she answered softly. "What wonderful, wonderful luck! I can't believe it even now. You little Mavis!
"I have done my duty, Archdeacon, and now I will wish you good-evening." She gave a little bow and retired from the room, softly closing the door behind her. He sat there, looking at the letter.... The Assembly Rooms seemed to move like a ship on a sunset sea. Hanging from the ceiling were the two great silver candelabra, in some ways the most famous treasure that the town possessed.
"Big L had allowed himself to be driven by the devil and had become light-fingered. Half an hour later it was whispered softly from room to room: 'To-night, when the lamps are turned out, general consultation in the company hall!
'Walter, said Gladys quite softly, as she leaned against the straight white trunk of a rowan tree, on which the berries hung rich and red, 'I have often thought of you since that sad day. Often I wished to write, but I knew that you would come when you felt like it. Did you understand?
"I know," she said, softly. "Fieldsy told me a little bit. I'm so sorry." He drew a long breath and looked down at her, his eyes searching her face. "You are a little comrade," he said, and his voice was low and moved. Then with a quick motion he seized her hands again and they were off, back down the river.
From forest depth and mountain side came the myriad voices of Nature's chorus, blending softly in the evening hymn; and, rising clear above the low breathed tones, yet in perfect harmony, came a whip-poor-will's plaintive call floating up from the darkness below; the sweet cooing of a wood-dove in a tree on the ridge, and the chirping of a cricket in a nearby crevice of the ledge.
"Bug-bears!" she retorted, "you go on about your business and I'll attend to mine," and she flirted into the house. Rene laughed under his breath, standing a moment as if expecting her to come out again; but she did not, and he resumed his walk singing softly "Elle a les joues vermeilles, vermeilles, Ma belle, ma belle petite." But ten to one he was not thinking of Madamoiselle Adrienne Bourcier.
"Let's ask the Doctor to let us go." "He wouldn't," I cried impatiently. "No, he wouldn't," said Tom. "Come on." We opened our door softly, stole down, and reached the schoolroom unseen, after listening at the masters' sitting-room door, and hearing them chatting together.
He whistled softly again. And as the cart took the sharp turn of the road, and was lost to sight, the miller's man appeared, and the Cheap Jack greeted him in the softest tone he had yet employed. "Ah, there you are, my dear!" Meanwhile, Mrs. Lake sat within, and looked ruefully at the damaged frame, and wished that the master, or at least the man, had happened to be at home.
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