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How I wish Sally and Polly and Thirza could be with us, and our brothers too! Have you heard from Peter lately?" "I heard only a few days before I left; one of the girls came down, and she said Peter was well, but oh, how they miss their own mother!
"Yes; I'm afraid he's over head and ears in love with her." At the dismayed sound he uttered, she slipped her soft round arm within his. "He's going to the front soon, poor boy!" "Have they talked to you?" "He has. Nollie hasn't yet." "Nollie is a queer child, Thirza." "Nollie is a darling, but rather a desperate character, Edward." Pierson sighed.
The proud Sadducees of Nazareth, of Capharnaum, of Thirza, of Gabara, of Jotapata, and of Silo, whom Jesus had so often reproved before the people, were actually dying for revenge. They hastened to all the inns to seek out those persons whom they knew to be enemies of our Lord, and offered them bribes in order to secure their appearance.
It seemed to us only natural that, after so strange and romantic a beginning to your acquaintance, Thirza should regard you with more than ordinary interest. To her you would be a sort of hero of romance. We watched you closely then, and found that in addition to your bravery you possessed all the qualities that we could desire. You were modest, frank, and natural.
Tell her we'll pay it back when we get ours a Saturday. Don't you want to take Thirza Meserve with you? She's alone as usual while Huldy's entertainin' beaux on the side porch. Don't stay too long at the parsonage!" Rebecca was used to this sort of errand, for the whole village of Riverboro would sometimes be rocked to the very centre of its being by simultaneous desire for a yeast-cake.
Fergus remained three months at home. Thirza was delighted with the country, and the affection shown by the people to Fergus; and studied diligently to learn the language, that she might be able to communicate personally with them, and above all with Mrs. Drummond, to whom she speedily became much attached.
Accepting life as it came, Thirza showed no dismay, but her cheeks grew a little pinker, and her eyes a little rounder. She took up a sprig of mignonette, and said placidly: "Oh, my dear!" "Think of it, Thirza that child! Why, it's only a year or two since she used to sit on my knee and tickle my face with her hair." Thirza went on arranging her flowers.
Did I not myself see our Lord spend the sum which was given him by Lazarus in works of mercy, and deliver twenty-eight debtors imprisoned at Thirza?
In the afternoon she went down to the station in the village car, the same which had borne Cyril Morland away that July night, for their coachman had been taken for the army, and the horses were turned out. Noel looked tired and white, but calm too calm. Her face seemed to Thirza to have fined down, and with those brooding eyes, to be more beautiful.
Old people haven't to fight, and get killed; they oughtn't to mind us taking what we can. They've had their good time." It was such a just little speech that Thirza answered: "Yes; perhaps he hasn't quite realised that." "I want to make sure of Cyril, Auntie; I want everything I can have with him while there's the chance.
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