All the influences about her worked with her own predisposition and
against all the traditions of her home and upbringing to deal with the facts of life
in an unabashed manner. Wood, despair will come over me; and, dear as this babe is to me, far dearer
than my own wretched life, which I would lay down for him any minute, I have
prayed to Heaven to remove him, rather than he should grow up to be a man, and
be exposed to his father's temptations—rather than he should live as wickedly
and die as disgracefully as his father. There was no answer. To call yourself ‘Alcide’! Your hair, your gestures, your voice, all
mine! Oh, how dared you do it?”
“You must not forget,” Anna said calmly, “that it is necessary for me also—to
live. "Good work. And in those days, too, he
used to help her mother with her gardening, and hover about her while she stood
on the ladder and hammered creepers to the scullery wall. To-day is for
the sights; the other three days—lessons. I have counted you, and always hoped to count you,
the best of my friends. I can vouch
for that. ”
She disengaged herself from him and went out of the room with a grave,
preoccupied expression. By and by—as the paroxysm subsided and he became motionless—she stole
back to the bungalow to wait. CHAPTER XXVII
His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her
suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent
thought. They were a young man and an old one, and both
appeared deeply affected. Folding his arms, he placed his back against the door, and burst into a loud
laugh. It wound
around a small manufactured lake.
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