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Updated: June 7, 2025
She is the ministering angel in the valley. As for those she receives, there are only the cure and Monsieur de Dalens during vacation." "Who is this Monsieur de Dalens?" "He owns the chateau at the foot of the mountain on the other side; he only comes here for the chase." "Is he young?" "Yes." "Is he related to Madame Pierson?" "No, he was a friend of her husband."
"I wish to register a solemn vow," said he, with mock solemnity that did not hide the seriousness beneath. "Hear me, ye immortal gods! Never again, never again, will I engage in any game with a friend where there is a stake. I don't wish to tempt. I don't wish to be tempted." "What nonsense!" said Pierson. "You're simply cutting yourself off from a lot of fun."
Sometimes we pretended they were nice ladies, and then Racey had to smile and talk very prettily like mother, and sometimes they were cross fussy ladies, and then Racey had to say "No, ma'am" "I'm sure I can't say, ma'am," like Pierson in her grumpiest voice. And one day something very funny at least long afterwards it turned out to be very funny happened, when we were playing that way.
She made me quite see how wrong it would have been of me to try to run away to Pierson with the boys; that it would really have been disobeying papa and mother, and that happiness never comes to people who go out of the right path to look for it in. "But it does sometimes, Miss Goldy-hair," I said.
"No oh, no," replied Tom, as he crumpled up the paper and thrust it into his pocket. "No bad news, Dad." "Well, I'm glad to hear that," went on Mr. Swift. "I don't like telegrams." When Tom showed the message to Lieutenant Marbury, that official, after one glance at the signature, said: "Pierson, eh? Well, when he sends out a warning it generally means something." "Who's Pierson?" asked Tom.
And her happiness lasted with not a break, with hardly a pause, all that spring and all that summer or, so long as her baby's helplessness absorbed the whole of her time and thought. When Pierson, laggard as usual, returned to Battle Field a week after the end of the long vacation, he found Scarborough just establishing himself.
He lived in such and such a place; he had been there himself and was interested in him; he hoped that Madame Pierson I was looking at her while he was speaking, wondering what reply she would make and hoping she would say something in order to efface the memory of the priest's voice with her gentle tones. She merely bowed and he retired. When he had gone our gayety returned.
Master Joel Pierson arrived the following Sunday afternoon, as he had promised in his letter of Thanksgiving Day eve, and took up his abode with us at the old Squire's for the winter term of school.
He threw his eyes all round the vacant space while pencilling in reply: 'We take the key to her. 'I have no wife, but a little pupil. 'A Lieutenant Pierson, of the dragoons; Czech white coats, helmets without plumes; an Englishman, nephew of General Pierson: speaks crippled Italian; returns from V. to-day. Keep eye on him; what house, what hour.
Under a skylight six beds jutted out from a green distempered wall, opposite to six beds jutting out from another green distempered wall, and from each bed a face was turned towards them young faces, with but little expression in them. A nurse, at the far end, looked round, and went on with her work. The sight of the ward was no more new to Pierson than to anyone else in these days.
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