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So it is in vain to affect ignorance." Catherine, with all the earnestness of truth, expressed her astonishment at such a charge, protesting her innocence of every thought of Mr. Thorpe's being in love with her, and the consequent impossibility of her having ever intended to encourage him.
As for any assignable reason for justifying him in associating this Hair Bracelet with Madonna, he found it, to his own satisfaction, in young Thorpe's account of the strange words spoken by Mrs. Peckover in Mr.
Uncovered, this head gained a certain dignity of effect from the fashion in which the thin, iron-grey hair, parted in the middle, fell away from the full, intellectual temples, and curled in meek locks upon his collar. A vague resemblance to the type of Wesley or was it Froebel? might have hinted itself to the observer's mind. Thorpe's thoughts, however, were not upon types.
Folkard's "Plant-lore, Legends, and Lyrics," p. 463. Conway's "Mystic Trees and Flowers," Blackwood's Magazine, 1870, p. 594. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," i. 212. See Black's "Folk-Medicine." "Mystic Trees and Flowers," p. 594. "Primitive Culture," ii. 215. Metam., viii. 742-839; also Grimm's Teut. Myth., 1883, ii. 953-4 Grimm's Teut. Myth., ii. 653.
It is my turn now. I hold the whip-hand, and I should be an ass not to remember things. I shall want that entire one hundred thousand pounds from you, and fifty thousand added to it 'on account of the 'friendly interest, as you so intelligently expressed it." Thorpe's chin burrowed still deeper upon his breast. "It's an outrage," he said with feeling.
"Wonder who changed your name, Pedro. And how the devil did he come by you? Ho, ho, if you could only talk " They heard Thorpe's voice inside the tent. It was followed by a low girlish peal of laughter, and McCready jerked himself erect. His face blazed suddenly red, and he rose to his feet, dropping the flask in his coat pocket.
Asser's Life of Alfred; the Saxon Chronicle; Alfred's own writings; Bede's Ecclesiastical History; Thorpe's Ancient Laws and Institutes of England; Kemble's Saxons in England; Sir F. Palgrave's History of the English Commonwealth; Sharon Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons; Green's History of the English People; Dr. Pauli's Life of Alfred; Alfred the Great, by Thomas Hughes.
Miss Mehitable's feet moved swiftly away from the house. She was going to the residence of the oldest and most orthodox deacon in Thorpe's church, to ask for guidance in dealing with her wayward charge, but Araminta never dreamed of this. Dusk came, the sweet, June dusk, starred with fireflies and clouded with great white moths.
It might be, of course, that his "corner" would break under him at any fortnightly settlement, but already he had carried it much further than such things often went, and the planning of the coup had been beyond doubt Napoleonic. Had this small sandy Scot planned it, or was he merely the weapon in Thorpe's hand?
Thorpe's men, however, were all old-timers, and nothing of the sort occurred. At first it made him catch his breath to see the apparent chances they took; but after a little he perceived that seeming luck was in reality a coolness of judgment and a long experience in the peculiar ways of that most erratic of inanimate cussedness the pine log. The banks grew daily. Everybody was safe and sound.
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