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He told Presley in a few words what had happened during the first night he had spent in the garden of the old Mission, of the Answer, half-fancied, half-real, that had come to him. "To no other person but you would I speak of this," he said, "but you, I think, will understand will be sympathetic, at least, and I feel the need of unburdening myself of it to some one.
I'd allus been a gooid lass to him, choose what fowks say." Step by step the weaver led her on to tell him the story of what had led up to the shameful transaction in the market-place. It was no mere curiosity that moved him, but a realisation that there could be no peace of mind for Mary Whittaker until she had found relief by unburdening her tortured soul.
Hargrove sat down beside the oval table, and, folding his hands before him, leaned forward scrutinizing the handsome non-committal face of the stranger, and conjecturing how far he would be warranted in unburdening his own oppressed heart. Coolly impassive, and without a vestige of curious interest, the lawyer quietly met his incisive gaze. "Mr.
It was the intention of Bob Smithers to reach this place before dark; and, owing to the heavy nature of the ground, from its excessive saturation, it was with no little difficulty this portion of the journey was performed. However, they reached the shepherd's hut; and unburdening their horses, they hobbled them and turned them out to graze, while they camped themselves for the night.
The unburdening, however, had been accomplished with a good deal of bitterness, for he was very ambitious and very proud, and to be obliged to digest the fact that he was but a type of the great majority was distinctly galling. True, politics were left.
Gordon walked down to the station with him. "I am going to the front in about a week, you know," said Tester, as they were standing on the platform. "Good Lord! man, why didn't you tell us before?" "Oh, I don't know. I didn't want them all unburdening themselves to me.... Here's the train. Well, good-bye, Caruthers. Good luck." "Thanks awfully; and mind you come back all right."
"Well, I'm glad 'taint for you I don't like a weak-chested woman." She looked up smiling as they passed the store into the sunken road which led in the direction of Solomon Hatch's cottage. "I did see a speck of red through the crack," he confessed after a minute, as if he were unburdening his conscience of a crime. "You mean you saw my cap or jacket or maybe my gloves?"
Were death itself staring him in the face, instead of seeing it as he does in the face of another man, Gaspar the gaucho, could not forego a jest, so much delights he to indulge in his ludicrous humour. After unburdening himself as above, he once more closes his arms around the notched post, and lowers himself from the platform.
His voice was now sweet, now piercing, and again far too dulcet with the overkindness of burlesque; and if, as it seemed, he was unburdening his spleen, his spleen was a powerful one and gorged. He appeared to be in a torment of tormenting; and his success was proved by the pounding of bricks, parts of bricks and rocks of size upon the other side of the fence, as close to the crack as might be.
And in like manner the sorely troubled old gentleman talked rapidly on, till they reached the undertaker's, seemingly finding a relief in thus unburdening his heart to one of whose sympathy he felt sure, and who might thus be led to feel a deeper interest in the objects of his charge. Even at that time of general disaster Haldane's abundant funds enabled him to secure prompt attention.
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