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Partly because Tabitha was delicate at first and must be within reach of doctors, they lived for the most part at various coast cities in Africa, where Thomas worked with his usual fervour and earnestness, acquiring languages which he learned to speak with considerable perfection, though Dorcas never did, and acquainting himself thoroughly with the local conditions in so far as they affected missionary enterprise.
I can put it in the bottom of the old trunk where I keep my things and no one will ever know but you." So he marched away with the precious volume under his arm, and Tabitha crawled happily into bed to dream of grand names and a happy future in the unknown home where they were going. "What's your name?"
"I think," said Miss Tabitha, "that instead of Miss Gordon's being a silly girl, that she has acted both sensibly and honorably in refusing to marry a man she could not love. No woman should give her hand where she cannot yield her heart." "But Miss Tabitha, the strangest thing to me is, that I really believe that Belle Gordon cares more for Mr.
Then she slipped it on over the third and fourth fingers of her left hand, put her mittens on again, and went on. It was quite still in the school-house, although school had not begun, because Miss Tabitha Hanks had arrived. Her spare form, stiff and wide, and perpendicular as a board, showed above the desk.
"Why, Carrie Carson, are you sorry?" "N-o, but if she is here I suppose I can't have Tabitha for a room-mate." "You precious little girlie! No, I have made other arrangements for Tabitha and Mercedes.
If ze pocketbook is flat, zen pick a little flower, write a little letter, give a merry smile. All true friends like zat better zan silk dresses or gold watches. Do you forget one of your great poets has said: 'Not what we give but what we share, For ze gift without ze giver is bare." "I see what you mean, Madame," said Tabitha slowly.
The room was in silence except for an occasional sob from the youngest sister, Eunice. Outside the rain fell steadily over the steaming marshes. "Nothing is to be changed, Tabitha," gasped Ursula to the other sister, who bore a striking likeness to her although her expression was harder and colder; "this room is to be locked up and never opened."
There on the table stood the rosewood work-box, and her mother went straight across to it and opened it. "Look here, Comfort," said she; and Comfort looked. There in its own little compartment lay the ring. "Miss Tabitha Hanks found it in the road, and she thought you had taken it unbeknownst to me, and so she brought it here," explained her mother.
With wild rebellion in her heart and a keen sense of the injustice done her, Tabitha had rushed heedlessly up the hill and down through the pathless tangle of wet greasewood and sagebrush, splashing through mud and water with reckless abandon, and arriving home in a deplorably bespattered state, with feet wet and dress dripping.
"No Christmas Day!" echoed the scandalized woman with charming accent, "Ah, zat is ze Christ's birthday!" "I was very wicked," murmured Tabitha, humbly. "I didn't stop to think how we happen to have that holiday. I was mourning because I have not as much to spend for pretty things as the other girls have."
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