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"All right, Miss Webster." "Bring me a sheet of paper an' a pencil before you go." The nurse entered with the desired articles. "I'm sendin' to town for Lawyer Benton," announced the patient with elaborate carelessness. Neither Melvina's voice nor her face expressed the slightest curiosity. "There's some business I must see to right away, an' I reckon I may's well get it fixed up this mornin'."
"My dear, you'd be very unhappy," she said. Then she leant back again and received in complete stillness May's meditative gaze. "In a good many ways perhaps I should," said May at last with a sigh, and her brow puckered with wrinkles. "Yes, I suppose so," she sighed again. "But I know what it is. You've let yourself get interested in Sandro; you've let him lay hold of you." May nodded.
Five miles from the fort was the ranch of a wealthy bachelor, and at May's request a halt was here called. It was thought that the owner of the ranch might take pity upon my deplorable condition, and provide some sort of vehicle to convey the ladies the remainder of the journey.
Amy's conscience preached her a little sermon from that text, then and there, and she did what many of us do not always do, took the sermon to heart, and straightway put it in practice. A group of girls were standing about May's table, admiring the pretty things, and talking over the change of saleswomen.
You're going back to your narrow loving-hating theory." "Hum. I'm inclined to think that nature shares my narrowness." If May got small comfort from this conversation, Morewood got less, and the rest of the party, judging from what he let drop about his impressions of May's state of mind, none at all. Lady Richard was of opinion that a crisis approached and re-echoed her cry, "Not here anyhow!"
In a little he left that spot and crept, foot by foot, over to the cairn, the "sheepherder's monument," behind which the fellow had stood. There again he found the prints of Helen May's small, mountain boots, prints which he had come to know very well. And close to them, looking as though the two had stood together, were the larger, deeper tracks of a man. Starr dared not rise and stand upright.
You have been very good; and he is at home ah! not home but Dr. May's. Was he well? Was he very glad? 'I have not seen him; I have not heard; you will hear soon. I came at once with the tidings. 'Thank you; and she clasped her hands together. 'Have you seen Henry? does he know? 'Could I? Had not you the first right? 'Leonard!
Do not look on the labour as hardship inflicted by mistaken authority 'Oh, I only want to get to that! I have been so long with nothing to do! 'And your hearty doing of it, be it what it may, as unto the Lord, can be as acceptable as Dr. May's labours of love among the poor as entirely a note in the great concord in Heaven and earth as the work of the ministry itself as completely in unison.
Webster picked her way daintily through the crowd, and Mr. Lessing, who was seated at the end of one of the desks, stood up to let her pass. May's skirt caught against a nail, as she followed, and Paul bent to set it free; but as May turned smiling to thank him, it gave her a faint shock of surprise to read the dislike that found expression in his eyes.
Aunt moulded bullets, while mother got the ax and butcher knife, and then stuffed rags in the cracks, and brought in the half-bushel to turn over the light, so that they could not see where to shoot. Then we all took turns standing out in the darkness at the corner of the house, to keep watch, and listen for the sound of guns from Mr. May's. Father came home at eleven.
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