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Instantly the tears came to Maggie's eyes, and, coloring crimson, she said: "I didn't mean to tell indeed I didn't, but I forgot all about your charge. Forgive me, Hagar, do," and, sinking on the floor, she looked up in Hagar's face so pleadingly that the old woman was softened, and answered gently: "You are like the rest of your sex, Margaret.
Noll looked upon the little sleeper's face, and then at the wretched surroundings, and was glad for the child's sake that sleep and peace had come at last. Yet his heart was heavy as he looked upon his basket and its now useless contents, and he thought, "Oh, if I had only been more careful last night! perhaps perhaps Hagar's medicines could have helped it." He turned to Dirk, saying, quietly,
"Abe's out putterin' around, an' Hagar's nappin', I reckon or tryin' on her new dresses," he added as an after-thought. He was about to ride on, when a sound reached his ears, and he drew the reins tight on Patches and sat rigid, alert, listening. The perfect silence of the timber was unbroken.
More than once that day Madam Conway had heard the servants hint that Hagar's grief had driven her insane; and now when she observed the unnatural brightness in her eyes, and saw what she had done, she too thought it possible that her mind was partially unsettled; so she said gently, but firmly: "This is no time for foolishness, Hagar.
It is needless to say that Miss Arthur flies instantly; but le docteur, interviewing the half-sick, fidgety old man, discovers that he, too, is threatened with the fever. Of course, he can not leave then." Old Hagar's eyes were twinkling, and she was bending forward now in an eagerly attentive attitude. "No," she breathed, unconsciously.
"Wouldn't ride with me, I dare say," interrupted Maggie; to which he replied, "I presume not," adding, as he saw slight indications of pouting, "And therefore I am glad you are Maggie Miller, and not Hagar's grandchild." Mentally pronouncing him a "proud, hateful thing," Maggie rode on a while in silence. But Mr.
The ascended Saviour addresses you from the skies: "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." In the preceding chapter, the occasion of Hagar's second banishment from the family of Abraham was related.
And you, sir," continued Harley, rising, his whole form gradually enlarged by the dignity of passion, "who wear the garb appropriated to the holiest office of Christian charity; you who have presumed to think that, before the beard had darkened my cheek, I could first betray the girl who had been reared under this roof, then abandon her, sneak like a dastard from the place in which my victim came to die, leave my own son, by the woman thus wronged, without thought or care, through the perilous years of tempted youth, till I found him, by chance, an outcast in a desert more dread than Hagar's, you, sir, who have for long years thus judged of me, shall have the occasion to direct your holy anger towards the rightful head; and in me, you who have condemned the culprit shall respect the judge."
He gathered up the reins and had turned the horse's head when, apparently from the clouds, Mr. Peabody appeared on the scene. "Long as you're going over to Hagar's Corners you won't mind giving me a lift, will you?" he drawled. "I have an errand over at the station, and it won't take me a minute. I can come right back with you.
"What name?" asked the minister; and she answered, "Her mother's; call her for her mother!" "Hester," said Madam Conway, turning to the clergyman, who understood nothing from Hagar's reply.
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