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"Oh, I think it is criminal for people to build in a place like this!" Miss Carter burst out passionately. "They're safe enough oh, certainly!" she went on with bitter emphasis. "But they leave us " "It shows how little you know us, thinking we'd run any risk with Timmy " Belle said stiffly; but she interrupted herself to say sharply: "Here's the water!" She went to the door and opened it.
"Alfred, will you please let him in? He's about to butt the gate down." He walked stiffly across the lot and opened the gate. The calf shot past him like an animated cannon-ball. He met her as, with the pail on her arm, she had turned toward the cottage. "I'm too big a fool to ever understand you, Dixie," he gulped, as they paused face to face.
He ceased, but did not dare to look up, lest he should meet her eyes as she raised her head to answer him. He was kneeling, stiffly, sitting back on his heels with his back straight, his arms hanging down at his sides, and his hands clasping the old grey felt hat. His head was leaning forward, and two tears ran down his sunburned cheeks to the tangled thickness of his grizzled beard.
But I don't feel sure that it would be well," said Ludlow. "I wanted to say, though, that I shall be glad to come and be of any little use I can if you're going on with it." "Oh, thank you," said Cornelia. She thought she was going to say something more, but she stopped stiffly at that, and they both stood in an embarrassment which neither could hide from the other.
"What has happened?" asked the doctor with sudden apprehension. "Everything," she replied womanlike, raising her eyes slowly to his own. Impulsively he placed both hands on her shoulders. "You are nervous," he said, his gaze riveted upon her parted lips. He felt her arms grow tense she threw back her head stiffly and for a moment closed her eyes as if in pain.
He peered at her a moment as if she were a vision, then got up very stiffly as if he had not moved for hours, and began to assist her, mechanically following the usual routine of preparing breakfast. When it was ready they sat down opposite each other as was their custom, and made a pretense of eating. With the exception of a perfunctory remark or so the meal passed in silence.
"What had happened," I asked myself, with a little clutch at my heart, "to make Dicky look at me in this way?" I had a longing to take him away where we could be alone. I was glad when my mother-in-law rose stiffly from her chair. "If you are too much occupied, Margaret," she remarked, icily, "I will go and tell Katie that Richard is here, and that she may serve dinner immediately."
"I can't do that, General," said Mrs. Chester, not angrily, but gravely, and looking him straight in the eyes. "But you must! I won't let her stay here! And these are my grounds, aren't they?" "Certainly! But if Bessie goes, we all go with her. It's not our way to desert those we've once befriended and taken in, General." "That is for you to decide, ma'am," he said, stiffly.
In a few minutes Mrs. Avenel returned. She took a chair at some distance from the parson's, and resting one hand on the elbow of the chair, while with the other she stiffly smoothed the stiff gown, she said, "Now, sir." That "Now, sir," had in its sound something sinister and warlike. This the shrewd parson recognized with his usual tact. He edged his chair nearer to Mrs.
Her hair hung in damp strings; her eyes were red with crying. In one hand she held the lantern, and in the other stiffly extended before her, on a wad of calico reposed a magnificent pair of Yellow Emperors. Elnora stared, her lips parted. "Shall I put these others in the kitchen?" inquired a man's voice. The girl shrank back to the shadows. "Yes, anywhere inside the door," replied Mrs.
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