Ten minutes later they descended the hill to Torrydhulish Station. The north-going train had paid its brief call and vanished nearly from sight again; no one seemed to be moving about the station, and the Baron told himself that nothing worse remained than the exercise of a little tact in parting with his deliverers.
"Ach! I shall carry it off gaily," he thought, and leaping lightly to the ground, exclaimed with a genial air, as he gave his hand to Eva.
"Vell! Now have I a leetle surprise for you, ladies!"
Nor did he at all exaggerate their sensation.
Alas, that it should be so far beyond the power of mere inky words to express all that was implied in Eva's accents!
Nor is it less impossible to supply the significance of Eleanor's intonation.
"Ladies, ladies!" he implored, "do not, I pray you, misunderstand! I vas not responsible--I could not help it. You both VOULD come mit me! No, no, do not look so at me! I mean not zat--I mean I could not do vizout both of you. Ach, Himmel! Vat do I say? I should say zat--zat----"
He broke off with a start of apprehension.
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he often spent much time with the white foreman of the
still early, when the fatigues of the day brought on a
of the gate and walked in slowly. Tom did not hear the
had brought himself near to the attainment of more than
that she might honestly give him the answer that he demanded.
Maggie! More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of
presence of those whose looks and words would be a reflection
“No, I don’t sacrifice you — I couldn’t sacrifice
In the morning I asked a young Indian, who was wet to the
whose face had a desperate determination in it, was about
In the afternoon we paid our respects to the governor —
so far as her culpability was concerned. We judge others