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She liked best a sketch of a baby boy, lost amid trees, behind which wood- nymphs and fauns peeped at him, roguish and inquisitive. The boy was seated on the ground, fat and solemn, with round, tear-wet eyes. He was so lonely that Mary wanted to hug him; instead, she kissed Stefan. "What a duck of a baby, dearest!" she exclaimed.
Penelope raised a tear-wet face and looked into her mother's shining eyes. "Glad? oh, mother!" she cried fervently. Then very softly, "Mother do you think could you teach me? Oh, I want to play just like that just like that!" The Folly of Wisdom
She might have been a statue or a painting as he looked upon her and noted the lovely curve of her flushed cheek, but when his eyes reached the firm little brown hand and the slender finger on which gleamed the wedding ring that was not really hers, something pathetic in the tear-wet lashes, and the whole sorrowful, beautiful figure, touched him with a great tenderness, and he stooped down gently and put his arm about her.
"I knew him and loved him!" said Lord Blythe, quickly. She looked at him with wistful, tear-wet eyes. "Well then, how hard it must be for you to think that he ever did anything unworthy of himself!" she said "And for this dear lady it is cruel! for she loved him too. And what am I that I should cause all this trouble!
She wanted me to tell you that they they were going to stay together and to play the game, just as you wanted them to." Pollyanna smiled through tear-wet eyes. "Did they? Did they, really? Oh, I am glad of that!" "Yes, she said she hoped you'd be. That's why she told you, to make you GLAD, Pollyanna." Pollyanna looked up quickly.
Six days passed, and then in the gray light of the next morning he opened his weary waiting eyes and saw bending over him the fair face that for two long years, and all through his hopeless agony he had longed for, and as he reached his hand to her in mute gratitude, unable to speak, he felt it clasped, and the next instant she was on her knees beside him and pressing a tear-wet face upon it, and he was listening to the first prayer she ever uttered!
Then it all came over her with a little sickening rush; she had fallen asleep with tear-wet lashes the night before on account of it.
She dropped both hands and stared at him out of wide, tear-wet eyes. "Fair to myself at your expense, Duane?" "What do you mean? I love you." "Am I to let you you marry me knowing what you know? Is that what you call my sense of fairness?" And, as he attempted to speak: "Oh, I have thought about it already!
Oh, Jean, why did you leave me when you went?" and with that despairing cry Effie stretched her arms into the empty air, as if seeking that lost friend. My anger melted, and I tried to soothe her, saying gently, as I laid her tear-wet cheek to mine, "My child, death alone must part us two. We will be patient with each other, and so may learn to be happy yet." A long silence fell upon us both.
These remarks shifted Johnnie's inner vision to other scenes, and having already guessed that he was not broken in two, he considered One-Eye's plaint with something of a twinkle in his eyes, and fell once more to dragging at his hair. Willing hands now refilled the battered bucket and washed his tear-wet face.
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