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And suddenly she put her elbows on her knees, and buried her face in her hands. "Listen, Susan " he began again. But again she silenced him. "Just one moment " she said pleadingly. For two or three moments there was silence. "No, it's my fault," Susan said then, more composedly, pushing her hair back from her forehead with both hands, and raising her wretched eyes.
"Billy," I said to him one afternoon when he had taken all four of the kiddies out in his car to get wild grapes, when Harriet had counted on having wee Susan to herself for the afternoon, while Nell was interestedly busy over somber but much needed winter clothes for herself. "You have just got to make up your mind that Harriet is going to absolutely possess Sue for the future.
"Why, tell him the truth, of course," was all that Daniel Burton would answer, with a shrug, in reply to her urgent appeals for aid in the matter. This, Susan, in utter horror, refused to do. "But surely you don't expect to keep it secret forever who she is, do you?" demanded Daniel Burton scornfully one day. "Of course I don't.
He had found Susan Shepherd alone in the great saloon, where even more candles than their friend's large common allowance she grew daily more splendid; they were all struck with it and chaffed her about it lighted up the pervasive mystery of Style. He had thus five minutes with the good lady before Mrs.
If my letters hadn't a miscarried you would never have thought of such a thing, Susan," said he, with an insinuating smile, handing his wife a mixture similar to that he presented to his old friend. "If they had been written there would have been no fear of their miscarrying," said she rather sulkily. "Here's Mrs. Peck my good friend, Mrs.
Bring the prisoners along!" he shouted to the seamen. "You'll tell poor Susan what has happened," said Ben, as he passed the landlady. "Tell her to keep up her spirits. I'll be back home as soon as I can." "Trust me, Ben," said kind-hearted Mrs Simmons; "I'll see your wife to-morrow morning, and tell her what you say." The officer, losing patience, ordered his party to move on.
Nature, now and then, treacherously slipped in a real thrill, where only play-acting was expected. Susan, laughing at the memory of some sentimental fencing, was sometimes caught unaware by a little pang of regret; how blank and dull life would be when this casual game was over!
"He can blow the flute very well that 'a can," said a young married man, who having no individuality worth mentioning was known as "Susan Tall's husband." He continued, "I'd as lief as not be able to blow into a flute as well as that." "He's a clever man, and 'tis a true comfort for us to have such a shepherd," murmured Joseph Poorgrass, in a soft cadence.
"You will go, too, Maggie," said Rose, caressing her sister's pale cheek, and whispering in her ear, "Aunt Susan will be here to tell Mr. Carrollton where you are, if he does not come before we go, which I am sure he will."
Susan heard the first of it on a windy, gritty Saturday afternoon, when she was glad to get indoors, and to take off the hat that had been wrenching her hair about. She came running upstairs to find Virginia lying limp upon the big bed, and Mary Lou, red-eyed and pale, sitting in the rocking-chair. "Come in, dear, and shut it," said Mary Lou, sighing. "Sit down, Sue."
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