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Hours passed in the same partial stupor, filled with phantoms and horrible dreams. Toward evening, she aroused herself mechanically to take the broth Mrs. Watterly ordered her to swallow, then relapsed into the same lethargy. Late in the night, she became conscious that someone was kneeling at her bedside and fondling her. She started up with a slight cry.
Watterly, has asked me more'n once, 'Why don't you marry again? I told him I had been married once, and that I couldn't go before a minister and promise the same things over again when they wasn't true. I can't make to you any promises or say any words that are not true, and I don't ask or expect you to do what I can't do.
He shook his head as he replied, "I don't know of any such person. I took the best one in this house, and you know how she turned out." "Perhaps Mr. Watterly may know of someone else," she faltered. She was now deeply troubled and perplexed again, supposing that he was about to renew his first proposition that she should be his only help. "If Mr.
In Watterly he heartily recognized a brother politician who controlled a goodly number of votes. When Holcroft briefly made known his errand, the justice gave a great guffaw of laughter and said, "Oh, bring her here! And I'll invite in some of the boys as witnesses."
"I offer you open and honorable marriage before the world, and no other kind. Mr. Watterly and others as many as you pleased would witness it, and I'd have you given a certificate at once. As for your story, it has only awakened my sympathy. You have not meant to do any wrong. Your troubles are only another reason in my mind for not taking any advantage of you or deceiving you in the least.
Holcroft, you told me she was out of the common run, how much out, you little know, and I don't want her mixed up with the common run, even in your thoughts." "Well, now, I like that," said Watterly, giving Holcroft his hand. "You know I didn't mean any offense, Jim. It was only one of my foolish jokes.
Tom Watterly arrived at the door with his fast-trotting horse at the same time, and cried, "Hello, Jim! Just in time. I'm a sort of grass widower today been taking my wife out to see her sister. Come in and take pot luck with me and keep up my spirits."
Watterly wouldn't be long in comforting himself," remarked his wife. "His advice to you makes the course he'd take mighty clear." "Now, Angy!" said Tom reproachfully. "Well," he added with a grin, "you're forewarned. So you've only to take care of yourself and not give me a chance."
"She's got some hold on 'im," concluded Jane, who, in listening to much gossip, had often heard this expression, and now made a practical application of the idea. Watterly was greatly relieved when he saw Holcroft drive up with the fugitive.
I don't want to see her mother, and you'd do me one of the kindest turns you ever did a man by stating the case to her." "If I do," said Watterly, laughing, "you'll have to forgive me everything in the past and the future." "I will, Tom, for I'd rather have an eye tooth pulled than face that woman.
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