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"Oh, then you have been in Europe?" Virgie cried, with animation. "Yes, in almost every portion of it," he answered, watching her kindly face with admiration. "How favored you are," she sighed wistfully. "I have longed with a mighty longing to visit foreign lands." "Have you? Perhaps some time your wish may be gratified. I hope it may be," he returned, in an earnest tone.
The question of providing a home and protection for Virgie had long agitated his mind. They had no relations or friends to whom he could confide her. There were reasons why he was unwilling to appoint a guardian and send her back to their former home, and so, at last, he resolved to commit her to the care of his early friend and college mate, Laurence Bancroft, a wealthy merchant of New York city.
"Only the wind and the storm beating against the house, I think," answered Virgie, lifting her head, and calmed for the moment as she, too, listened to what had seemed an unusual noise. "It is a wild night, my child. I hope no one is homeless in this storm," said Mr. Abbot.
It stood in a short street leading to the river, whose splutter-docks and reeds were seen near by among the masts of vessels and the mounds of sawdust. Virgie kissed Rhoda good-night, and descended with Mr. Tilghman, who opened a gate, and, going up some steps, knocked at a vine-environed door. A window opened and there was a parley, and the door soon afterwards unclosed softly and admitted them.
Let's take one more look at the refreshments that Gimpke girl may have them all in a mess by this time." There was a rush for the kitchen, where Leigh Shirley was already showing Rosie how to keep the table of dishes in order. Meanwhile, Asher Aydelot had gone out to the seat Thaine had put up under the honeysuckle trellis. "It is early for the crowd, Virgie.
"Here are some of the things he immediately needs, then," Vesta said, as a tall white man she had never seen before came up the stairs with Virgie, bringing some Susquehanna ice in a blanket, and a roll of carpet, and other articles she had sent for. The man's face wore a large bruise that heightened his savage appearance.
She imagined that this might be the reason of Virgie keeping so quiet just at present, and she was all the more willing and glad to have her brother go away from home, as he proposed doing, because she knew that he would have to be notified whenever any such proceedings should be instituted, and she feared if he were there to receive them he would at once post off to America again, and upset all her plans by bringing about a reconcilation at the last moment.
"You can start in and munch on those heavenly biscuits while this terrible Yankee builds the fire." Cary made a move as if to help; but Morrison checked him. "Oh, no, Cary, just you keep on sitting still. This is no work for you. You're tired out. "Here, Virgie, I know you want to get me some water from the spring.
"I didn't hear anything," said Virgie, breathing very fast; but she too had heard it a sound above them, a scraping sound, as of someone lying flat along the rafters and shifting his position and, while she spoke, a telltale bit of plaster fell, and broke as it struck the floor.
"You should have kept your marriage certificate," she faltered, "every wife should do that then you could have proved your claim." "I shall prove it yet," Virgie declared, in a clear, decisive voice. "Do you imagine I am going to sit tamely down and allow a stigma to rest upon this innocent child if there is any power on earth to prevent it?
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