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Sometimes in the night I long for him. But, for little Dinah's sake " She paused, for Scott had suddenly turned and was pacing the room rapidly, unevenly, as if inaction had become unendurable. She lay and watched him while the great tears gathered and ran down her wasted face. He came back to her at length and saw them.
The Bobbsey twins were eating Dinah's cookies. They had each begun on the second helping, when suddenly a loud crash sounded, which seemed to come from the direction of the railroad tracks which ran not far from the Bobbsey home. The crash was followed by loud shouting. "I wonder what that was?" cried Bert. "Sounded like thunder," returned Nan. "Let's go and see," said Bert.
What was the trouble?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey. Nan and Bert explained, while Flossie and Freddie took their places in the gasoline machine. "Are you all ready?" asked Mr. Bobbsey. "How about you, Dinah?" for the colored cook was being taken to the country to help look after the smaller twins. "Oh, indeedy I'se all right, Mrs. Bobbsey," was Dinah's answer.
Ruth stood, sulky and silent, and a little ashamed, as the other guests arrived; and when Betty declared that it was time to start and led the way toward the big wagon, Ruth walked alone and was the last one of Betty's guests to climb up to her seat. There were ten little girls in the party, and Black Jason, Dinah's husband, was to drive the team. Mrs.
"Oh, what a beast I am! What a beast!" she sobbed. "Will you ever forgive me? I shall never forgive myself!" Isabel was very tender with her, checking her wild outburst with loving words. She asked no question as to what had been happening, for which forbearance Dinah's gratitude was great even though it served to intensify her remorse.
I must go from you, and we must submit ourselves entirely to the Divine Will. We are sometimes required to lay our natural lawful affections on the altar." Adam dared not plead again, for Dinah's was not the voice of caprice or insincerity. But it was very hard for him; his eyes got dim as he looked at her.
Little La Baudraye had detected in Dinah's eyes, when she glanced at the journalist returning the ball of his jests, that swift and luminous flash of tenderness which gilds the gleam of a woman's eye when prudence is cast to the winds, and she is fairly carried away.
"Do hear the horrid creature talk!" said both ladies, laughing immoderately. "Come, clar out, you! I can't have you cluttering up the kitchen," said Dinah; "in my way, foolin' round here." "Aunt Dinah's glum, because she can't go to the ball," said Rosa. "Don't want none o' your light-colored balls," said Dinah; "cuttin' round, makin' b'lieve you's white folks.
Dinah's solitude was all the more distressing because she had not the art of putting a good face to the matter by examining the company through her opera-glass.
And in her dreams the vision of Greatheart in his shining armour came to her again, filling her with a happiness which even sleeping she did not dare to analyse, scarcely to contemplate. Dinah's strength came back to her in leaps and bounds, and three weeks after the de Vignes's departure she was almost herself again. The season was drawing to a close.
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