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Pedro and Lourenço, transporting the equipment, passed in and out soft-footed and almost unnoticed. At length the player, with a deprecatory smile and a half apology for "boring his guests," extended the instrument again toward the visitors. And McKay, silent McKay, took it. Sweet and low, out welled the haunting melody of "Annie Laurie."
The rain swept against the panes, and tears stole from under the girl's long lashes tears for her empty, vapid life, for the hopelessness of the future, for the humiliations of the present, for the lack of a love that should be without self-interest. "I like that verse, Anna Belle," said the voice within. "Let's sing that again," and the hymn welled forth:
Endicott's eyes met hers, and in their depths she perceived a newly awakened fire. She was conscious of a strange glow at her heart a mighty gladness welled up within her, permeating her whole being. "He has awakened," her brain repeated over and over again, "he has "
A bitter wave of homesickness welled into my throat as, conscious of the enveloping dust, the utter shams, the tawdriness, the alien unsympathetic onlookers, the suave but incisive manner of the clerk, the sense of having been "done" and through my own fault, I peeled a greenback from the folded packet in my purse and handed it over.
The ideas of the Divine goodness, patience, mercy, and love which formerly welled up in abundant floods at the thought of God, at the same thought now were dried up and disappeared. "Oh!" he once exclaimed, "if I could only be sure that I shall not be damned!" This was said unawares while listening to the life of a saint.
"Are you pleased with the play, Master?" Nanteuil asked him. And the Master, who had no eyes for anything but bones, tendons and muscles, replied: "Yes, indeed, mademoiselle; yes, indeed! I see over there a little creature, little Midi, whose shoulder attachment is a jewel." He outlined it with his thumb. Tears welled up into his eyes. Chevalier asked if he might enter the box.
"With what rapture I listened to his glowing descriptions of foreign lands, and what beautiful castles we built where we were to dwell together in the golden clime of Italy or the sunny bowers of France! "At length, my Gabriella, you were given to my arms, and the deep, pure fountain of a mother's love welled in my youthful bosom. But my life was wellnigh a sacrifice to yours.
Somehow she had the idea that he was unhappy, for indeed he looked so even in his sleep, though perhaps this was to be accounted for by a paper of unfinished sums before him. Sympathy welled up in Isobel, who remembered the oppressions of the last governess her of the inkpot. Sympathy, yes, and more than sympathy, for of a sudden she felt as she had never felt before.
Leaning over in the saddle, he whispered: "I'll be back in a quarter of an hour Will you wait?" "Yes," she said, so that he barely heard. "Here?" She nodded. He was away at a gallop, leaving Virginia standing bareheaded to the night, alone. A spring of pity, of affection for Clarence suddenly welled up within her.
But when she was alone in the little room with the door shut between, the pity grew strong again till it almost welled up in tears. Poor Joost! Poor humble, earnest, unselfish Joost! That he should care so, that he should have set his hopes on her, his star a will-o'-wisp of devious ways!
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