Sheppard, who witnessed this occurrence with dismay, looked timorously
at Wood, in expectation of some hint being given as to the course she had better
pursue; but, receiving none, for the carpenter was too much agitated to attend to
her, she ventured to express a fear that she was intruding. They will
be safe. Manning came into her thoughts
again, an unexpected, tall, dark, self-contained presence at the Fadden. "Well, I'm glad she's spared this. ”
“What did your aunt say?”
“She didn’t even kiss me. Beautiful is the girl of twelve,—who is neither
child nor woman, but something between both, something more exquisite than
either!
Such was the fairy creature presented to Thames Darrell, under the following
circumstances. The sing-song girl, her fiddle broken, was beating her forehead upon the floor
and wailing: Ai, ai! Ai, ai! Spurlock—or Taber, as he called himself—sat
slumped in a chair, staring with glazed eyes at nothing, absolutely uninterested in
the confusion for which he was primarily accountable.
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