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There was something majestic in her mental attitude. Wilmer felt how noble her maturity was to be, and told himself, with a thrill of pride, that he had done well to love her. "Marshby is coming," he said. "I want to show you both the picture." Mary shook her head. "Not this morning," she told him, and he could see how meagre canvas and paint must seem to her after her vision of the body of life.
It seems very, very sad to me that she is marrying thus late in life and only on Kittie's account. Why, oh, why could she not have wed when she was young and love was in her heart! The Wizard's Touch Jerome Wilmer sat in the garden, painting in a background, with the carelessness of ease.
Mr. looked at him with a slight sneer for a moment, and then replied, "I can't have any playing about me If my work suits you, well; if not, there are a plenty whom it will suit." Silently did Wilmer withdraw from the presence of the unfeeling man, and turned with aching limbs to his toilsome work.
"I dropped into a joint called The Reception, and who'd I see playing 'bank' but 'Single Out' Wilmer, the worst gambler on the river. Mounted police had him on the woodpile in Dawson, then tied a can on him. At the same table was a nice, tender Philadelphia squab, 'bout fryin' size, and while I was watching, Wilmer pulls down a bet belonging to it. That's an old game.
"Please!" said Mary. Her eyes were full of tears. That was rare for her, and Wilmer saw it meant a shaken poise. She was less certain to-day of her own fate. It made her more responsively tender toward his. He sat up and looked at her. "No," he said. "No. I won't ask you again. I never meant to. Only I have to speak of it once in a while. We should have such a tremendously good time together."
"Do you want Wilmer?" he demanded. "Do you love him truly? Is he enough?" "I don't know." Slow tears wet her cheeks. "I can't say. I ought to; he's good and faithful, and with some of me that's enough. But there's another part; I can't explain it except to say it's a kind of excitement for the life Mr. Eckles told us about, all those lights and restaurants and theaters.
George Truesdell, of Washington, D.C.; Mr. George M. Marshall, of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Mr. Joseph Wilmer, of Alexandria Seminary, Va. There is one other name which must not be omitted, that of Mr.
They proved very grateful and refreshing to Wilmer, who, soon after he had eaten a few of them, fell into a gentle sleep. The food which Mrs. Wilmer had bought would last them probably about two days not longer. Two months' rent would be due in a week, amounting to eight dollars.
Wilmer again, her own heart trembling with a recurrence of the vague hopes with which the mysterious letter and timely supply had inspired her, hopes that had never been hinted to her husband. But it seemed that he had given the incident his own interpretation. But he heeded not her question. For some time mother and son again stood over him, in troubled silence.
A letter was handed out to Ellen, and on breaking the seal, another appeared addressed to Constance. She did not dare to open it in the street, but retired to a confectioner's, and while Ellen was tasting an ice-cream, Constance was devouring, with eager eyes, the first love-token she had ever received from Theodore Wilmer.
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