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"It isn't much to ask, you know," continued Dacres. "You see my reason is this: I can't go there myself, as you see, but I hunger to hear about her. I should like to hear how she looks, and what she says, and whether she thinks of me." "Oh, come now! look here, my dear fellow, you're putting it a little too strong. You don't expect me to go there and talk to her about you, you know.
It was quite dark when Mistress Janice called her to supper in the tea room, with Patty. The two women had a great deal of sparring, it would seem. At the farm there was never any bickering. Once in a while Uncle James scolded some of the laborers. Yet it seemed curious to Primrose that they should talk so sharply to each other and the next minute join in gay laughter.
"Ready it is, sir. If I see a chance, shall I ketch hold?" "Hist!" "What's the matter, sir?" "Talk lower. What's that? It may be enemies." "Phew!" whistled Tom Fillot, softly. "It was behind me. I didn't see that. There, you have it."
She has swooned. Eleanor! my wife " "Begone, begone, my son," said Father Cyril, "it will be the better for her." "It may be," said Reginald, "yet to leave her thus Here, nurse, support her, tend her well. Give her my tenderest greetings. Arthur, be duteous to her; talk to her of our return; farewell, my boy, and blessings on you. Eustace, mount."
"I was sure we must be some relation to each other; for, though I am not so beautiful" "Don't talk nonsense, or I shall call you 'Your Ladyship' for the rest of the day. Yes, of course we are alike, since our mothers were twin-sisters, and the very image of each other, according to their portraits."
She had been a very impressionable girl, and her ill-fated union with Villiers had not quite succeeded in deadening all her feelings, though it had doubtless gone a good way towards doing so. Being of an appreciative nature, she liked to hear Vandeloup talk of his brilliant life in Paris, Vienna, London, and other famous cities, which to her were merely names.
But it seems so strange to have any one talk to me with such frankness and deliberation. Have you no fear?" "There is seldom fear where there is admiration. If you had used the word awe, now " Soft laughter rippled over the fan. She had the most wonderful eyes. "Are all Americans brave like yourself?" she next asked. "Brave? What do you call brave?"
So few people stop to think. They won't understand. It is so easy to put things behind one." "Come," he said, cheerfully, "you and I, at least, are not amongst those. And there is a certain duty which we owe to ourselves, too, as well as to others to look upon the brighter side of things. Let us talk about something less depressing."
"Well, I wonder what his ideal is?" remarked Miss Priscilla grimly. "It has something to do with his belief that art can grow only out of sacrifice," said Susan. "I never heard anybody not even Jinny's father in church talk so much about sacrifice."
You may talk as you will about the intoning choirs of your European cathedrals, but the sound of "O Can-a-da," borne across the waters of a silent lake at evening is good enough for those of us who know Mariposa. I think that it was just as they were singing like this: "O Can-a-da," that word went round that the boat was sinking.
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