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I was changed indeed, scarcely should I have known it for that of the lad who had ridden up this hill some twenty years ago. Now, alas! the eyes were sunken and very sorrowful, the features were sharp, and there was more grey than black in the beard and hair. I should scarcely have known it myself, would any others know it, I wondered? Would there be any to know it indeed?
The patience he showed, and the gentleness yes, and the strength and firmness, when these were needed. I should have fallen down under my burden in those days, if it hadn't been for Uncle Gershom. I have often wondered, Lizzie, if you knew just what a man your father was." Elizabeth turned her tearful face, smiling now, toward her cousin, but she said nothing. "I never could tell you never!
And he applauded our valour, and Alice and H. O. explained that they would have said 'Surrender, too, only they were reinforcements. The robber ate some of the chestnuts and we sat and wondered when Father would come home, and what he would say to us for our intrepid conduct. And the robber told us of all the things he had done before he began to break into houses.
Robin and baby were both crying for food; and there was no coal to make a fire, nor any candle to give them light during the long dark evenings of November. Kitty was out all day now, and did not get home till late, so Meg had not seen her since the night she had brought the news about her father. But a bright thought came to her, and she wondered at herself for not having thought of it before.
He had not been attended to for days, and we did the best we could for him. A carriage passed laden with two tiny boxes a policeman on either side. Although the boxes were small the carriage seemed so heavy that the horses could scarcely drag it, and two well-dressed men who were riding on the carriage often had to get out and push. We wondered if the boxes were filled with gold.
I well, just consider that I bought the racket and you bought none." She regarded me intently. "You mean that you bought it as a present for me?" she said slowly. "Yes; yes, if you will accept it as such." She was silent. I remembered perfectly well what she had said concerning presents from me and I wondered what I should do with that racket when she threw it back on my hands.
She wondered why she should think of him at all. He was against her was a force that played directly against all her plans of life, her precepts. Moreover, she had told him she feared he was soft like a woman some women that there was in him a lack of the straight man-courage which was the only standard in Lost Valley.
So she took long walks, and came home with sparkling eyes, and her cheeks full of a rich color, till her father wondered what had come to his proud silent daughter to give this new buoyancy to her frame, and added physical beauty to her face, which had once seemed to him a little too spirituelle and ethereal.
At first I tried to count the hour; but when the bell went on to strike seventeen, and even twenty-one o'clock, the absurdity of the thing came over me, and I wondered whether it was some frequent call to prayer for a feeble band of sisters remaining, some reminder of midnight penance and vigil, or whether it was not something more ghostly than that, and was not responded to by shades of nuns, who were wont to look out from their narrow latticed windows upon these same gardens, as long ago as when the beautiful Queen Joanna used to come down here to repent if she ever did repent of her wanton ways in Naples.
He wondered whether Mills had gone out and come back, or if he had not left at all. "No. He turned back at the last minute, for some reason. He's camping in one of the old T. & T. shacks below Carr's. I rather like Mills. He's interesting when you can get him to loosen up. Queer, tense sort of beggar at times, though.
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