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"I will wait a half-hour; if he doesn't come then, I'll go," I said to the housekeeper, who came to see that all was right for the night, and to remind me that Redleaf had not proved very advantageous to my complexion, and to recommend early hours as a restorative.
"I beg your pardon; I was thinking in words," he replied. "I am sorry that I cannot do as you wish," I said, and resumed my profession in the room above. The day went on, never pausing one moment for the sorrow and the suffering that another day had brought to this house in Redleaf. Just before the funeral-bell began to toll, Mr. Axtell came again to the sickroom door. There was no change.
"Don't look so sadly about it, Myrtle-Vine," he added; "take my room, if you like." "That was not my thought," I said. "I do not mind the change of room." The visit to Redleaf, which I had made to dawn in my horizon, was eclipsed by three broken bones, that suddenly undermined the arch of consistency. Soothingly came the words that were spoken unto me.
One of His sending brooded over Redleaf when I walked forth in its morning-time to redeem my promise. "Miss Percival! I'm so glad!" Katie showed me into the room that once I had been so much afraid of. She did not long leave me there. "Miss Lettie would like to see you in her room." Sophie was right. She is almost well.
It was only the old story of the captive polishing chains to wear them away; and yet Mr. McKey was simply very civil and intentionally kind, where he might have been courteously indifferent. Abraham was away when Bernard McKey came to Redleaf. For more than twelve months this terrible something had been working its power into my soul.
"Oh, I am so glad, you are growing rational, Anna!" and Anna Percival did not tell these two that she had emptied the tower of all its mystery, and thrown the cup afloat on the future. Aaron and Sophie were doomed to wonder why I came to Redleaf.
She thanked me for my compliance, and said, with a scintillation of coaxingness in her manner, "You need not be afraid; there's nothing to harm one in Redleaf." "Why did you come, to be kind to me, sick and in sorrow?" she suddenly asked, whilst I, unseen by her, was preparing one of the soothing powders that still were left from the night wherein I forgot my duty. I knew not how to reply.
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