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"I like the city better," she replied, blushing, and she hastily left the room. My greed for work departed as abruptly. "Poor child!" I muttered. "'Life is a tangle, as Miss Warren said, and a wretched one, too, for many of us." Mrs. Yocomb soon after came in, and looked with solicitude at my almost untasted dinner. "Why, Richard," she said, "thy appetite flags strangely.
"Mr. Yocomb, I hope you don't object to this, for I must assure you most emphatically that I don't." "Mother's welcome to love thee all she pleases," said the old gentleman, laughing. "Indeed, I think I egg her on to it." "Good friends," said Miss Warren, with her old mirthful look, "you'll turn Mr. Morton's head; you should be more considerate." "I am indeed bewildered.
She did not reply, and went quickly to her piano. I turned and entered the dining-room where Mrs. Yocomb and Adah were clearing away the breakfast. Mr. Yocomb was writing in his little office adjoining. "I think it is time I said good-by and went back to New York." In the outcry that followed, Miss Warren's piano became silent. "Richard Morton!" Mrs.
The last week that I proposed to spend at the farmhouse was passing quietly and uneventfully away. I was gaining steadily though not rapidly in physical strength, but not in my power to endure my disappointment with equanimity, much less with resignation. In the delirium of my fever I kept constantly repeating the words so Mrs. Yocomb told me "It's all wrong."
"I, too, have received kindnesses that could not come from others, because others would not know how to confer them with your gentleness and mercy, Mrs. Yocomb. Oh! oh! I wish I could make you and your husband know how I thank you. I, too, never forget. But if we talk this way any more, I shall have to make a hasty retreat."
Ever since I was a child the sound of thunder paralyzed me. Thank God, Mrs. Yocomb is beginning to revive." "I will leave her in your care, and see if I can do anything for Mr. Yocomb. I thus show that I trust you fully." As I passed out I heard a faint voice call, "Mother!" Going to the door of Adah's room I saw that she was conscious, and feebly trying to rise.
Yocomb, and taking both of her hands I entreated, "As you have the heart of a woman, never let Emily Warren marry that man. Help me help us both!" "My poor boy," she began, "this is a serious matter " "It is indeed," I said, passionately; "it's a question of life and death to us both."
"And were I condemned would you breathe freely?" "Yes, indeed I would, if Mrs. Yocomb condemned you. But after my sense of justice was satisfied I might be moved to pity." "And you think I may become a pitiable object?" "You would be, indeed, if Mrs. Yocomb condemned you." "Lead on," I exclaimed, with a gesture of mock tragedy; "this is the hour of destiny." "Richard Morton," said Mrs.
Yocomb cast a quick look of surprise at his wife. "Yes, I remember everything up to a certain point, and then all comes to a full stop. I wish you would bridge over the gap for me." "Richard," interposed Mrs. Yocomb, quickly, "it wouldn't do thee any good to have father tell thee what thee said when out of thy mind from fever.
Morton's words that he is in danger." "Now, mother, thee sees that Emily Warren believes in the terrors of the law." "Thee wouldn't be a very good one at enforcing them, Emily," said Mrs. Yocomb, nodding her head smilingly toward her favorite. "The trouble is," said Miss Warren a little sadly, "that some laws enforce themselves.
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