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some of their sick whom they somewhat tried to keep imprisoned in the flesh their own being quite for gotten the family sat down to table and a meal of cold was deposited before them angel looked for mrs s black which he had directed to be nicely as they did them at the and of which he wished his father and mother to a...	45
and in personal appearance beautiful is she of a such as you care to marry into a lady in short asked his startled mother who had come softly into the study during the conversation she is not what in common is called a lady said angel for she is a s daughter as i am proud to say but she is sl lady nevertheless in fee...	45
for the credit of the former line i hope they are fm sure but it is odd to hear you express interest in old families i thought you set less store by them even than i you me father you often do said angel with a little impatience i am as to the virtue of their being old some of the wise even among themselves exclaim aga...	45
realized his presence there she was yawning and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake s she had stretched one arm so high above her up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the her face was flushed with sleep and her eyelids heavy over their pupils the brim fulness of her bre...	45
i can t she said turning away from him not to and hinder her longer the considerate b an talking in a more general way you quite my parents they are the most simple people alive and quite they are two of the few remaining school are you an i don t know you go to church very regularly and our parson here is not very hi...	45
you did not you have made me so restless that i cannot read or play or do anything i am in no hurry but i want to know to hear from your by the consequence own warm lips that you will some day be mine any time you may choose but some day she could only shake her head and look away from him regarded her attentively t...	45
tell me that you won t belong to anybody but me i will i will tell you she exclaimed and i by ic of the d will give you a complete answer if you will let me now i will tell you my experience all about all your experiences dear yes certainly any number he expressed assent in loving satire looking into her face my has no...	45
d ha knocked him down wi the rolling pin a little like he any woman could do it the laughter which followed this sally was only by a sorry smile for form s sake from was comedy to them was tragedy to her and she could hardly bear their mirth she soon rose from table and with an impression that would follow her went al...	45
somehow as stood there in her prettily tucked up gown her hair carelessly heaped upon her head till there should be leisure to arrange it when and were done he broke his resolve and brought his lips to her cheek for one moment she passed downstairs very by the consequence quickly never looking back at him or saying ano...	45
well dear about that question of mine that long standing question the only reply that he could hear for a little while was the of the horse s hoofs on the road and the duck of the milk in the behind them you remember what you said i do she replied before we get home mind i u he said no more then as they drove on the ...	45
be married soon but with respect to your question j say between ourselves quite but very strong that on no account do say a word of your trouble to him j did not tell to your father he so proud on account of his respectability which your intended is the same many a woman some of the in the land have had a trouble in t...	45
shy as she who with lips parted and eyes on the wore the look of a wary animal the while you are not ashamed of me as yours before them she said gladly o nor but if it should reach the ears of your friends at that you are walking about like this with me a the most ever seen they might feel it a hurt to their dignity my...	45
fitful he said good as he spread a cushion for her on the stool and seated himself in the settle beside her i wanted to ask you something and just then you ran away yes perhaps i am capricious she murmured she suddenly approached him and put a hand upon each of his arms no angel i am not really so by nature i mean the...	45
more the thought of going home so that seriously dearest he continued since you will probably have to leave at christmas it is in every way desirable and convenient that i should carry you off then as my property besides if you were not the most girl in the world you would know that we could not go on like this for eve...	45
or april we will pay a visit to my father and mother questions of such as these arose and passed and the day the incredible day on which she was to become his loomed large in the near future the thirty first of december new year s eve was the date his wife she said to herself could it ever be their two together nothing...	45
off that none could con have been present at the ceremony even had any been asked but as a fact nobody was invited from as for angel s family he had written and duly informed them of the time and assured them that he would be glad to see one at least of them there for the day if he would like to come his brothers had n...	45
to use the same bread and butter plate as herself i and to brush from her lips with his own he wondered a little that she did not enter into these with his own zest looking at her silently for a long time she is a dear dear he thought to himself as one deciding on the true construction of a difficult passage do i solem...	45
for a set of like that ought it said yes said he he to her how to in the upper edge of her so as to make it roughly to the cut for evening wear and when she had done this and the to the isolated amid the whiteness of her throat as it was designed to do he stepped back to survey her my heavens said how beautiful you are...	45
she sat over the hearth pressed her cheeks between his hands from behind he expected her to up gaily and the toilet gear that she had been so anxious about but as e did not rise he sat down with her in the the candles on the supper table being too thin and glimmering to interfere with its g ow i am so sorry you should ...	45
day in red glow whidi fell on his face and hand and on hers peering into the loose hair about her brow and firing the delicate skin underneath a large shadow of her i rose upon the wall and ceiling she bent forward at which each diamond on her neck gave a sinister wink like a s and pressing her forehead against his tem...	45
disclosure itself he waited patiently till the violence of her grief had worn itself out and her rush of weeping had lessened to a catching gasp at intervals angel she said suddenly in her natural tones the insane dry voice of terror having left her now angel am i too wicked for you and me to live together i have not b...	45
burden of her life to his e was now without care he turned away to descend then faced round to her door again in the act he caught sight of one of the d whose portrait was immediately over the entrance to s in the the painting was more than unpleasant sinister design in the woman s features a concentrated purpose of re...	45
died but the man he is alive a last despair passed over s face is he in england yes he took a few vague steps my position is this he said abruptly i thought any man would have thought that by giving up all ambition to win a wife with social standing with with knowledge of the world i should secure rustic innocence a...	45
would not him greatly on modem improved methods some of it seeming to have been in use ever since the days it ground for the in the adjoining buildings now a heap of ruins he the house again in the course of an hour coming home at dusk and occupying himself through the evening with his papers she feared she was in the...	45
he being your husband in nature and not i if he were dead it might be different besides that s not all the it lies in another consideration one bearing upon the future of other people than ourselves think of years to come and children being bom to us and this past matter getting known for it must get known there is n...	45
as dead leaves upon the wind of his imaginative he may have observed her look for he explained i of people more kindly when i am away from them adding god knows perhaps we shall shake down together some day for weariness thousands have done it that day he began to pack up and she went upstairs and began to pack also b...	45
waters in creeping down these miles of frequently divided in curves themselves around uttle islands that had no name returning and re themselves as a broad main stream on opposite the spot to which he had brought her was such a general and the river was and deep across it was a narrow foot bridge but now the flood had ...	45
from the night s so that was on the point of revealing all that had happened but the reflection that it would anger him grieve him him to know that he had instinctively manifested a fondness for her of which his common sense did not approve that his inclination had his dignity when reason slept again her it was too muc...	45
this but she could contest the point with him no she simply repeated after him his own words until you come to me i must not try to come to you just so may i write to you o yes if you are ill or want anything at all i hope that will not be the case so that it may happen that i write first to you i agree to the conditi...	45
gone away for a time gone away when was you then the day you said yes tuesday mother and now tis on y saturday and he gone away yes he s gone what s the meaning o that nation seize such as you seem to get say it mother went across to laid her face upon the matron s bosom and burst into i don t know how to tell ee mothe...	45
spot as nothing else could by i op the d have done how unexpected were the attacks of destiny and if her father doubted her a little would not neighbours an acquaintance doubt her much o she could not live long at home a few days accordingly were all that she allowed herself here at the end of which time she received a...	45
to a land could not for long mr and mrs s natural interest in their son s marriage we had your brief note three weeks ago announcing that it had taken place said mrs cl and your sent your s gift to her as you know of course it was best that of us should be present especially as you preferred to marry her from the and n...	45
said simple souls whom he loved so well who knew neither the world the flesh nor the devil in their own hearts only as something vague and external to themselves he went to his own his mother followed him and tapped at his opened it to discover her without with anxious eyes angel she asked s there something that you go...	45
during the day he left the for what he had to complete he wished to get done quickly as the last duty before leaving this part of england it was for him to call at the in which he had spent with the first three days of marriage the trifle of rent having to be paid the key given up of the rooms they had occupied and two...	45
his allowance mentally she remained in utter a condition whidi the mechanical occupation rather than checked her consciousness was at that other at that other season in the presence of the tender lover who had her there he who the moment she had grasped him to keep for her own had like a shape in a vision the work las...	45
and summer required no further aid room would probably have been made for her at if only out of sheer compassion but comfortable as her life had been there e could not go back the anti climax would be too intolerable and her might bring reproach upon her husband she could not have borne their pity and their whispered r...	45
the noises came from wild creatures of some kind the more so when in the boughs overhead they were followed by the fall of a heavy body upon the ground had she been here under other and more pleasant conditions she would have become alarmed but outside humanity she had at present no fear day at length broke in the sky ...	45
here myself i feel tis a pity for such as you to come o by the woman pays but you used to be as good a as yes but i ve got out o that since i took to drink lord that s the only comfort i ve got now if you engage you ll be set that s what i be doing but you won t like it o anything will you speak for me you will do be...	45
see anything knew that it was impossible to go on with the and by the time she had ed breakfast beside the solitary little lamp arrived to tell her that they were to join the rest of the women at reed drawing in the bam till the weather changed as soon therefore as the uniform of darkness began to turn to a disordered...	45
every look as serious earnest but there s nothing like a winter for taking that nonsense out o young heads and you ve signed and agreed till lady day now are you going to beg my pardon i think you ought to beg mine very well as you like but we ll see which is master here be they all the you ve done to day yes sir tis...	45
recommended their own daughter in law to em at this moment as a fairly choice sort of lost person for their love thereupon she began to back along the road by which she had come not altogether fuu of hope but full of a conviction that a crisis in her life was approaching no crisis apparently had and there was nothing l...	45
contrast it was less a reform than a by of the d former curves of were now to lines of passion the lip shapes that had meant were now made to express the glow on the cheek that could be translated as was to day into the of pious had become the bold rolling eye that had flashed upon her form in the old time with such ma...	45
wicked generation by op the d at length the road touched the spot called hand of all the spots on the and desolate this was the most forlorn it was so far removed from the charm which is sought in landscape by artists and view lovers as to reach a new kind of beauty a negative beauty of tragic tone the place took its n...	45
its results and who was a girl of tact b an to speak of her own little affair a phase of which had just witnessed he is the chap who used to sometimes come and help at she explained indifferently he actually inquired and found out that i had come here and has followed me he says he s been in love wi me these two years ...	45
again in more impetuous tones and then looked round at the who turned the too felt that the could not be ended there informing the man that a gentleman had come to see her with whom she wished to walk a little way she moved off with d across the field when they reached the first section he held out his hand to help her...	45
this man of stone who would have her if he had dared was almost a relief after her former experiences e silently walked back towards the summit of the field that was the scene of her so absorbed in the interview which had just taken place that she was hardly aware that the nose of s horse almost touched her shoulders i...	45
do so after he had left her he moved on in silence as if his energies were by the hitherto po that his position was reason had had nothing to do with his which was perhaps the mere of a careless man in search of a new by the convert sensation and temporarily impressed by his mother s death the drops of logic had let fa...	45
who fed it could not stop and she who had to supply the man with could not stop either changed places with her which she sometimes did for half an hour in spite of s objection that she was too dow handed for a for some probably economical reason it was usually a woman who was chosen for this particular duty and gave as...	45
her eyes to him with the hopeless defiance of the s gaze before its its neck whip me crush me you need not mind those people the i shall not cry out once victim always victim that s the law o no no he said i can make full allowance for this yet you most forget one thing that i would have married you if you had not put...	45
met you it was a dead thing altogether i became another woman filled full of new life from you how could i be the early one by the convert why do you not see this dear if you would only be a little conceited and believe in yourself so far as to see that you were strong enough to work this change in me you would be in a...	45
been thrown with agricultural girls they did not distinctly know what had separated him and his wife nor the date on which the separation had taken place at first they had supposed it must be something of the of a serious aversion but in his later letters he occasion v ally alluded to the intention of coming home to fe...	45
of the fire in her inability to realize that his love and protection could possibly be withdrawn thus from being her critic he grew to be her advocate things he had uttered to himself about her but no man can be always a c and live and he withdrew them the mistake of expressing had arisen from his allowing himself to b...	45
they in a field a couple of yards out of the village she liked doing it after the confinement of the sick chamber where she was not now required by reason by op the d of her mother s improvement violent motion relieved thought the plot of was in a high dry open where there were forty or fifty such pieces and where labo...	45
families who had formed the of the village life in the past who were the of the v age traditions had to seek refuge in the large the process by as the tendency of the population towards the large towns really the tendency of water to flow up hill when forced by machinery the cottage accommodation at having been in this...	45
the rooms at she declared and we can wait there wait what for for tiiat nice husband no doubt now look here i know what are and bearing in mind the grounds of your separation i am quite positive he will never make it up with you now though i have been your enemy i am your friend even if you won t believe it come to th...	45
her tears if she could believe what the children were singing if she were only sure how different all would now be how confidently she would leave them to providence and their future kingdom but in of that it her to do something to be their providence for to as to not a few millions of others there was ghastly satire i...	45
guess who i mean came to ask for ee at after you had gone we didn t tell n where you was knowing you wouldn t wish to see him ah but i did see him murmured he me and do he know where you be going i think so husband come back no she bade her acquaintance good bye for the respective had now come out from the inn and ...	45
historic spot it was d where is he asked personally had no liking for she signified the direction of the church and went on d that he would see them again in case they be still unsuccessful in their search for shelter of which he had just heard by the convert when they had gone d rode to the inn and shortly after came ...	45
that this was only waste of breath the one being simply to wait at length there was a slight noise in the lane and the old pony chaise appeared indeed outside the saw alight a form which they affected to recognize but would actually have passed by of the d by in the street without had he not got out of their carriage ...	45
are fairly well provided for without entering the house turned away there was a station three miles ahead and pa ring off his coachman he walked thither the last train to left shortly after and it bore on its wheels by at eleven o clock that night having secured a bed at one of the hotels and us address to his father ...	45
evident result of haste he had held out his arms but they had fallen again to his side for she had not come forward remaining still in the opening of the doorway mere yellow skeleton that he was now he felt the contrast between them and thought his appearance distasteful to her he said can you forgive me for away can t...	45
voice from the adjoining bedroom what s the matter she did not answer but went on in a tone which was a rather than an exclamation and a rather than a mrs could only catch a portion and then my dear dear husband came home to me and i did not know it and you had used your cruel persuasion upon me you did not stop u...	45
had touched the heart of the victim who lay on his back pale fixed dead as if he had scarcely moved after the of the blow in a quarter of an hour the news that a gentleman who was a temporary visitor to the town had been in his bed spread through every street and villa of the watering place by meanwhile had walked alon...	45
to do these things as well as his confused and excited ideas could reason he supposed that in the moment of mad grief of which she spoke her mind had lost its balance and plunged her into this abyss it was very terrible if true if a temporary a by fulfilment sad but anyhow here was this deserted wife of his this passio...	45
he said let us go back towards it again they their steps but it was half an hour before they stood without the entrance gate as earlier he then requested her to stay where e was whilst he went to see who was she sat down among the bushes within the gate and crept towards the house his absence lasted some considerable t...	45
had rendered her progress a noiseless one so far and she made for instant retreat then that her hearing might have deceived her she turned anew to the door and softly tried the handle the was out of order but a piece of furniture had been moved forward on the inside which prevented her opening the more than an inch or ...	45
day e stone was warm and dry in contrast to the rough and chill grass around which had her skirts and shoes i don t want to go any further angel she said stretching out her hand for his can t we bide here i fear not this spot is visible for miles by day although it does not seem so now one of my mother s people was a s...	45
o view from time to time set back far from the road in proud seclusion among groves of oak and now scarlet and gold with the early frost distance was nothing to this people time was of no consequence to them they desired but a level path in life and that they had though the way was longer and the outer world strode by ...	46
a heard de folks boy ll he won t i kin trust im and den he now sam from dis time you belong to yo young i wan you to on im long he lives you are to be his boy from dis time an now he carry im in de house an he walks me an opens de do s fur me an i im in my arms an lays im down on de bed an from time i was in de house t...	46
to me when i d see her he use to write to her too an she use to write to him too den miss anne she off to school too an in de summer time d come home an yo hardly whether lived at home or over at l s he over constant always or down in de river or sometimes he go over an im an she d go out an set in de yard de trees she...	46
an ride up de road out o sight an we out in de field a an a when up comes we started to run but he done see us an he called us to come back an a he did gi us he took an den he me up he hu t me but in co se i hard i could it cause i him stop he n open he long im but soon he commence me an i begin to he bu st out an righ...	46
de river we tu ned right up de bank an bout a mile or a mat ter we stopped a little elder bushes on one side an two big trees on de an de sky all red an de water down to ds the sun like de sky in virginia n y mr he come a box bout so big fore im an he got down an me to all de an go de bushes i tell you bout off to one...	46
he d hardly open he you d a tho t he he used to look so but le im into danger an he use to be like times an like when he a boy when cap n got he leg shot off cap n on de spot cause one o de got de same day an one named mr wan no count an all de company said de man an he de same he didn never mention miss anne s name b...	46
i seen im when he went de four good ahead o ev y like he use to be in a fox hunt an de whole right im yo ain hear thunder thing i de roll head over heels an flung me up g de bank like yo a over g de foot o de corn pile an s what me from bein i she say she think providence but i think de bank o co se providence put de b...	46
n else besides in my cause when de ladies went upstairs night miss had to wait on de steps for a glass o water an couldn nobody it but george an den when she tell him over de he couldn say it good enough he got to kiss her hand an she ain do but peep upstairs ef anybody an when i come de do she her hand way a ran upsta...	46
her to gin her white frock when she married an when she say well what am i goin wear sally say lord honey george dress you in pure an she look up at him sparks out her eyes while he look like ain good for her an so when she went way sally got frock an proud on it i tell you oh yes he her tender hi when she go to ride i...	46
go an he ain even de bed i thought she he die but i suppose he done he in virginia days to be long in de land an save him but hit an he went off de plantation an he got older an older tell we all thought he die an one day come christmas bout nigh two year after die mr ride up to de do he had done come to george home to...	46
ain b it all hit look so reasonable she done le de an her ma who on what she her to send back he things an ain know no better not tell after de die den fine out bout de me an all an den miss know i ain stay day an she say bout it but it too late den an miss do but cry bout it an she did cause she done lost george an do...	46
lay an her eyes i do b she laugh mo em n her she de light o dis plantation when she d come in you house like you d back de an let piece o de sun in on de you could see by her an he used to her i don o in virginia you see one she up at him her back out her big brown eyes an try in to do what he do when went footed she ...	46
run down after him an virginia him after he on de an kiss him an out she say she ain him but she love him so much he kiss her mighty two or th ee times an den she let him go an he come an on he horse an rid way at a gallop out de back gate he cap on de side he head an went in de house an horse warn go up de stable rig...	46
you ought to a seen face lady hands in her lap and she looked at so anxious she me but do her face tu n mighty white t warn mo n a minute she right quiet and her head as straight as lady she says to her hadn you better stay here no says she i will go with you come on says she and walked out de do and locked it her and ...	46
to try an save him an he d like to a had horse too but he was shot so bad he fear d tain much show fur him as he sort o knocked out he senses when he fall as well as shot an he say he a young an meek a splendid charge i a letter out he pocket to him an tis now he says cap n he says it to lady when he say lady ain say a...	46
hill i say horse got heap o sense he know he hot an he ain hu t f don how he is he up to de stable now i say an i got to go up an le him in but o he tu n by de an come de house to i an stop an i well ef don beat lady a story of the war any horse ever in de how he know i when somebody say good i n y disappointed a man i...	46
an hit did she to bout it cause lady to it to her now and at it like she got better on it she mo o ev an her eyes look bright and shiny she ain know not bout how hard lady been had to she say she keep on after her to f some new es a dress an things an she an lady would smile tired like an say she now and don want no mo...	46
able to f den an she do right well at school de un all love her when she got home she so den her mind sort o itself an she set down an think an study an look so grieved hit n y did hut me an to see her at de o her head on her han an out out all de so and she look beautiful too say she herself to death well went on for ...	46
like an ax questions ef lady well anxious an i it an by time i done got right to de tu n in de out o an as i tu round o bushes i see lady right on de de gap use to be her books by her side on de her hat off at her feet an her head for ard in her ban s an her tumble down an de sun it th oo de bushes an hit all come to m...	46
n to mr an say kin i get a fresh horse i kin ride home an get de proof an be back in five hours ef i can get a fresh horse i ll buy him and pay well for him too it s forty miles an back says mr i kin do it i ll be back at half past twelve o clock sharp says de l up he watch an on he gloves an tu to de do well he look s...	46
say an den de sun crawl de an on her like it light all over her an night when de preacher was gone he wife an done off to sleep i in de do pipe an i em on de front steps voices in low like bees an de moon sort o over de yard an i sort o got to an hit like de plantation live once mo an de ain no mo an de times done come...	46
on dis place not i know bout it de house man live i say aunt tell him de house used to be on de hill oak tree is in de pines bu nt down de year he bom an he had to live in virginia de house an hit break he heart an all he an s de way he come to to we all but man ain know bout house cause hit bu nt down i wonder he did ...	46
you ain see corn lately is you he asked hit as rank you can see it ef you look at it good s strong land i know when i buy it he knew it was gone now but he had been in the habit of calling it his in the past three years and it did him good to claim the a little longer i wonder is said the woman he was the son of her fo...	46
rites for this reason and because the little cabin surrounded by dense pines and covered with vines which the popular belief held was the most desolate abode a human being could have selected most of the in that section gave the place a wide berth especially toward nightfall and would probably have suffered but for ou ...	46
he kin tell you who who he know it ain know it but ain he know it got it set down in de book i for em now a hush fell on the little audience they were in full sympathy with him and knowing no way of expressing it kept silence only the breathing of the old man was audible in the room he was evidently the end i might...	46
those whom we children acknowledged to know most about them was don t you never go nigh honey hit s de evil place in dis had not big william and and followed their dogs in there one night and cut down a tree in which they had with their own eyes seen the and lo when it fell de warn no mo n a dog and the next tree they ...	46
dug so deep that he laid the corner stone in water the foundation was of stone which was brought from a distance stories were told of it the declared that under the old house were solid rock chambers which had been built for and had served for purposes which were none the less awful because they were vague and indefini...	46
the distinction of being invested to us with horror and thus to us no less than because the had given way and the had turned again to swamp and it was that no was abandoned and was now by any foot but that of its ghostly tenants the time of my story was the spring previous continuous rains had kept the river full and h...	46
at the fowl that floated on its black surface but something had always me and the long reaches of no were left to the wild fowl and the ghostly i finally however after a spell whose high temperature was rather suited to august than april in desperation at my ill luck i determined to gratify my curiosity and try no so o...	46
of desolation that beggars description i was at last in the haunted house the rain driven by the wind poured in at the broken windows in such a that i was forced in self defence to seek shelter in one of the rooms i tried several but the doors were swollen or fastened i found one however on the side of the house and pu...	46
trees in the just at the bend of the canal which i commanded from my seat whenever there was a flash of lightning there was only the swaying of the bushes in the swamp and of the trees in the yet there i sat bolt upright on my bed in the darkness with every nerve strained to its utmost and that cry still sounding in my...	46
and as that had occurred very frequently for many years before was born he was not outside of the limit however was the only one this threat ever troubled the colonel knew he could no more have gotten on without than his old watch which looked for all the world like a model of himself could have run without the from ty...	46
story of how he and the colonel had shot judge through the heart the colonel always said that behaved very handsomely and that the matter was arranged on the field without a shot even at that time some people said that bob s mother was trying to catch the colonel and that if the colonel did not look out she would yet b...	46

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