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He sat so absorbed in his own fancies and feelings that he was unaware of the rumble of a carriage and the 'clicking of horses' hoofs over the cobbles of the place, but he knew of these things a moment later when the broad-beamed Evariste rapped at his study-door, and announced two gentlemen to see him.
I have absolutely to bolt my study-door against him." Adrian at once beheld a charming scene in the interior of the study, not unlike one that Benson had visually witnessed.
It was two weeks before good, white-haired, old Deacon Adams came to the house of his pastor. His face looked careworn enough. He stayed long in the study with my husband, and went away sadly. I happened to pass through our little hall just as the Deacon opened the study-door to depart; and I caught his last words, very sorrowful in tone,
"You are not like your mother; you are like mine ay, and seem more so as you grow to be a woman." "I wish I were a woman, that papa might talk to me and tell me anything which he has on his mind," whispered Olive, scarcely daring to breathe that which she had nerved herself to say, during many minutes of silent pondering at the study-door. Captain Rothesay relapsed hastily into his cold manner.
When the study-door next opened, Draxy herself came out, walking with a slow, measured step which transformed her whole bearing. Her face was perfectly calm, but colorless as white stone. At sight of her father her lips quivered, and she stretched out both hands to him; but she only said, "Where is Reuby?"
The fancy almost made her smile, and then filled her with a brimming sense of joy that he was what he was, a man to whom the bare idea of loving any woman but his own wife was so impossible that it became actually ludicrous. She smiled, she even laughed, with an ever-growing sense of all he was to her and she to him, when she heard him open his study-door and call "Christian."
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