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Updated: May 28, 2025
I do not want the women of Kirkwall wondering who was to blame. I do not want them coming to see me with solemn looks and tearful voices. I could not endure their pitying of 'poor Miss Thora! They would not dare go to Coll with their sympathetic curiosity, but there are such women as Astar Gager, and Lala Snackoll, and Thyra Peterson, and Jorunna Flett.
It was now quite dark; the stars had begun to shine out over the shorn harvest fields, and Chester had not come. Across the lane Cynthia White had pulled down her blind, in despair of out-watching Thyra, and had lighted a lamp. Lively shadows of little girl-shapes passed and repassed on the pale oblong of light. They made Thyra conscious of her exceeding loneliness.
Yes, a man might think she was pretty a low-browed girl, with a wave of reddish-gold hair, and crimson lips blossoming out against the strange, milk-whiteness of her skin. Her eyes, too Thyra recalled them hazel in tint, deep, and laughter-brimmed. The girl had gone past her with a smile that brought out many dimples.
Thyra had for the last year been betrothed to Adherbal, and he, too, was to accompany Hamilcar to Spain, and none could say how long it might be before they would return. While the others were sitting round the festive board, Adherbal and Thyra strolled away among the groves in the garden.
"Admirable!" cried Titianus, "I should like to show your plan to the Empress." "In that case, instead of eight days I must have as many weeks," said Pontius coolly. "That is true," answered the prefect laughing. "But tell me, Keraunus, how comes it that the doors are wanting to all the best rooms?" "They were of fine thyra wood, and they were wanted in Rome."
Wise parents can make careful inquiries, and have means of knowing what a man's disposition and habits really are." "You don't think, Adherbal," Thyra said earnestly, "that girls are such fools that they cannot read faces; that we cannot tell the difference between a good man and a bad one." "Yes, a girl may know something about every man save the one she loves, Thyra.
He knew quite well that Thyra was at the bottom of the sudden coldness between Chester Carewe and Damaris Garland, about which Avonlea gossip was busying itself. He pitied Thyra, too. She had aged rapidly the past month. "You're too hard on Chester, Thyra. He's out of leading-strings now, or should be.
While, full of themselves, Harold and Edith wandered, hand in hand, through the neighbouring glades while into that breast which had forestalled, at least, in this pure and sublime union, the wife's privilege to soothe and console, the troubled man poured out the tale of the sole trial from which he had passed with defeat and shame, Haco drew near to Thyra, and sate down by her side.
But this pleased Thyra. It eased the ache in her bitter heart to know that pain was gnawing at Damaris' also. Chester was absent from home very often now. He spent much of his spare time at the harbor, consorting with Joe Raymond and others of that ilk, who were but sorry associates for him, Avonlea people thought.
You never saw such rejoicing as there was this morning at the harbor, when the Nora Lee came in, flying flags at the mast head." "And Chester where is he?" demanded Thyra. Carl and Cynthia looked at each other. "Well, Thyra," said the latter, "the fact is, he's over there in our yard this blessed minute.
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