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Updated: May 3, 2025
She pondered the matter with such discrimination and logic as her clever little brain could compass; and at last she one evening called Barnaby to come into the garden with his banjo. The sun was down, and the half-grown moon swung yellow and clear against the violet arch of mid-heaven. Through the sheen a softened outline of the town wavered fantastically.
The position for him was trying, but he never wavered. Cramped and weary as he was, he strove by every means in his power to leave her undisturbed. And as he passed the river three ghostly figures ambled down to the bank, and, after drinking their horses, likewise passed over. But while Scipio kept to the trail, they vanished amidst the woods.
He had already weighed for her every side of the question, taking especial pains to discuss each phase of the subject, even going so far as to disagree with MacFarlane's opinion as to the worthlessness of the ore lands. But the dear child had never wavered. "No! I don't care," she had answered with a toss of her head. "Let the land go if there is no other way.
"He's been my chum, sir, all through the voyage," said one of the men, touching his cap to Bennett; "I had just as soon be left with him. I'm about done myself." Another joined in: "I'll stay, too I can't leave it's it's too terrible." There was a moment's hesitation. Those who had begun to move on halted. The whole expedition wavered. Bennett caught the dog-whip from Muck Tu's hand.
This is not an excuse to leave us for good?" Her eyes wavered before his. It may be that she had intended to abandon the campaign permanently, but, with his straight and masterful glance demanding an honest answer, she could not say it. "Yes, I will come back," she said, and then, with a sudden burst of feeling: "Oh, I like your group; I like all of you.
I have never doubted you! cried the youth, recovering his recollection and his voice, as he sprang to seize the hand of Elizabeth ; no, not one moment has my faith in you wavered. And my father God bless him! I thank thee, my son, said the Judge, exchanging a warm pressure of the hand with the youth ; but we have both erred: thou hast been too hasty, and I have been too slow.
How grand would be his victory, how great the triumph of a human soul's nobility, if, after all these dangers, if after all the enticements of wealth and rank, the girl should come to him, and lying on his bosom, should tell him that she had never wavered from him through it all!
Here she wavered; might have gone down, had she not been stimulated by the thought of how much depended upon her; she made a final great effort, and floundered across the room to her bureau, where she kept some simple restoratives. They served her need, or her faith in them did; and she returned to her work.
She cut off the roses; and when arrayed had the satisfaction of seeing herself look thirty-five. For a moment she wavered, and Leontine, with tears, begged to be allowed to remove the gown; but Betty set her teeth and went downstairs.
But he needn't think he can buy Oldfield land, an' set up a house there, as if 't was all in the day's work. Why, Mary, I meant to leave that land to you! An' p'raps you won't marry. Nobody knows. Then, 't would stand in the name a mite longer." Mary blushed a little, but her eyes never wavered. "No, gran'ther," said she firmly, "I sha'n't ever marry anybody."
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