Her thoughts took words for themselves. It may
not be just, it may not be fair, but things are so. ”
“And now—I am to lose you. ”
Miss Ellicot swept aside her skirts from the vacant chair and welcomed the
newcomer with one of her most engaging smiles. Then he
relaxed back a little, and let the weapon dangle from his fingers. So he
sharpened a score of pencils, and after fiddling about and rewriting the last page
he had written the previous night, he plunged into work. “YOU wouldn’t like to be independent?” he asked, abruptly. She
looked at me as though I were some unclean thing, as though my soul were
weighted with every sin in the calendar. I wished to control the
weather, to possess infinite wealth, and to understand the
substances of the earth. Home!—
which I never hoped to see again. "
But Thames was not to be deterred from his purpose; and the strife might have
terminated seriously, if a peace-maker had not appeared in the shape of little
Winifred, who, alarmed by the noise, rushed suddenly into the room.
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