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The dark eyes of the slave flashed fire, and her hands quivered like the wings of a bird when its prey is in sight. She clutched fiercely at the book, hissing out her impatience like a serpent. "Take it!" exclaimed Agnes fiercely, "but don't expect me to steal for you again." "Hist!" answered the woman, crushing the book under her arm; "here comes one of the Harringtons on horseback.
He thought he had discovered one of the things toward the latter part of September, when the people who occupied the adjoining house to the Pells returned to town. They were evidently a family of great wealth the Harringtons. Rex found what their name was from the servants. There was a young man in the household Dudley Harrington.
"Oh, child, child, to think of my ever living to hear you say that!" moaned the woman; " a daughter of the Harringtons having to earn her bread!" "Oh, but that isn't the way to look at it," laughed Pollyanna. "You ought to be glad if a daughter of the Harringtons is SMART enough to earn her bread! That isn't any disgrace, Aunt Polly."
'The Harringtons have had to mourn a dreadful mesalliance. Pity the Countess! 'Oh! the Countess! the Countess! exclaimed Rose to Drummond's pathetic shake of the head.
In my afternoon paper there was a letter by Veritas who tried to prove something about the Trusts by quoting from the third volume of Macaulay's history. After dinner I took the book from the shelf and as I struck it against the table to let the dust fly up, I thought of what Mrs. Harrington said. The Harringtons had spent an evening with me. As they rose to go Mrs.
"Of course you shall go, my dearest," Allan told her gently, while Joy wondered what it would be like to have some one speak to her in that tone. The Harringtons were so careless and joyous in their relations with each other, so like a light-hearted, casually intimate brother and sister, that it was only when they were moved, as now, that their real feelings were apparent.
Joy wondered, her heart beating with excitement, if they would mind very much when they heard the truth.... But such kind people as the Harringtons couldn't be very angry! She was beginning to feel irrevocably engaged.... Never mind John Hewitt would see her through. She looked up at him, and he smiled down on her.
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