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She became it well, and to Hagar's partial eyes it seemed more meet that she should lie there beneath the silken covering than the other one, whose nose looked still more pinched and blue in the plain white dress and cradle of pine. Still, there was a gnawing pain at Hagar's heart, and she would perhaps have undone the wrong had not Madam Conway appeared with inquiries for the baby's health.
Then nothing would have happened, and I could have gone back!" Hagar came in, saying, "Ye'll hab yer supper here, in de kitchen, Mas'r Noll, 'cause it's warmer fur ye dan in de dinin'-room. Ye won't mind Hagar's ole kitchen jes' fur once, honey?" "No," said Noll, sadly, "I won't mind at all, Hagar, and I'm not hungry much." Trafford went out to change his own wet clothing.
Did you see how they made way for us, and touched their caps, some of them? What a capital place to fish, off those rocks! I'm glad I brought hooks and lines, and What's that light ahead? A lighthouse?" "No, only Hagar's kitchen window," said Noll; "Hagar's our black cook, and there's only three of us in that great house, Ned!" "I should think you'd lose each other!
But not yet was that veil of mystery to be lifted. Hagar's secret must be kept a little longer; and, unsuspicious of the truth, Maggie Miller must dream on of sweet Rose Warner, whom she hopes one day to call her sister!
Abraham's Departure from Chaldea His Faith Its Failure Sarah and Abraham agree to prevaricate The Admiration which Sarah attracted Abraham's Dismissal from the country of Egypt Beauty and Dress Importance of a proper Education Parental Vanity Source of real Attraction Sarah proposes to Abraham to take Hagar Unhappy Consequences Hagar's Flight and Return Visit of three Angels Sarah's laughter at the subject of their commission Her subsequent Character General Remarks Birth of Isaac Ishmael's Conduct and its Consequences Sarah's Death.
His face was very pale, bearing marks of the storm he had passed through; but he was calm, and his voice was natural as he said: "Possibly what we have heard is false. It may be a vagary of Hagar's half-crazed brain." For an instant Madam Conway had hoped so too; but when she reflected, she knew that it was true.
She would not be an impostor; and then there flashed upon her the agonizing thought, before which all else seemed as naught in the proud heart of Arthur Carrollton was there a place for Hagar Warren's grandchild? "No, no, no!" she moaned; and the next moment she lay at Hagar's feet, white, rigid, and insensible. "She's dead!" cried Hagar; and for one brief instant she hoped that it was so.
It was Hagar's voice, and the cry came from her kitchen; and before Trafford had recovered from his surprise, there was a little sound of commotion in her distant province, doors were thrown open, voices echoed, and then along the silent hall came a sound the rush of eager feet that drove every trace of color from Trafford's face, as well it might, and made his heart beat so loud and wildly that he pressed his hands over it to stay its tumultuous beating.
He turned away from the old negress and opened the door. The tempest swept in, overturning the candle and flaring up the fire, and bearing the rain, in one long gust, across the little kitchen, even into Hagar's face. Trafford stood there, regardless of wind and rain, looking out upon the sea. The mighty tumult awed him and filled his heart with a sense of man's utter weakness and helplessness.
Only now and then a great drop fell with a hiss and sputter into the fire; but the wind grew fiercer as the evening waned, and the thunder and pounding of the sea was deafening. The spray dashed higher and higher, quite up to the backs of the men who huddled about the fire, and its fine mist sifted even into Hagar's face and grizzled locks.
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