oice interpose; and by the solemn murmur that followed, I gathered that Guy had thought it best to humor her wishes.
The long-drawn sigh which issued from her lips testified to the relief he had given her, Men Vests & Tanks and the “Now Dwight!” which followed was uttered in tones more gentle and assured.
But to this appeal no solemn murmur ensued, for at that instant a scream arose from the bed, and to the sound of an opening door rang out the words: “Keep her away! What do you let her come in here for, to confound me and make me curse the day she was born! Away! I say, away!”
Horrified, and unable to restrain the impulse that moved me, I sprang to my feet and rushed upon the scene. The picture that met my eyes glares at me now from the black Vans Tops Women background of the past. On the bed, that roused figure, awful with Women Skinny Jeans the shadows of death, raised, in spite of the constraining hands of her two sons, into an attitude expressive of the most intense repulsion, terror, and dread; and at the door, Damskie Vans Running Shoes the fainting form of the pretty, dimpled, care-shunning daughter, who, struck to the heart by this poisoned dart from the hand that should have been lifted in blessing, stood swaying in dismay, her wide blue eyes fixed on the terrible face before her, and her hands outstretched and clutching in vague fear after some support that would Vans Plimsolls Shoes Women sustain her, and prevent her falling crushed to the floor.
To bound to her side, and lift her gently out of her mother’s sight, was the work of a moment. But in that moment my Men Socks eyes had Converse Classic All Star time to see such a flash of infinite longing take the place of the Męskie Vans LXVI Secant fierce passions upon Męskie Vans Old Skool that mother’s face, that my heart stood still, and I scarcely knew whether to bear my burden from the room, or to rush with it to that bedside and lay it, in all its childlike beauty, on that maddened mother’s dying breast. A low, deep groan from the bed decided me. With that Vans Slippers look of love on her face, otherwise distorted by every evil passion, Mrs. Pollard had fallen back Dame into the arms of her two sons, and quietly breathed her last.
Chapter 7
Advances.
For they are actions that a man might play;
But I have that within which passeth show.
HAMLET.
“Miss Sterling?”
I was sitting by the side of Mrs. Harrington in her own room. By a feverish exertion of strength I had borne her thither from her mother’s chamber, and was now watching the returning hues of life color her pale cheek. At the sound of my name, uttered behind me, I arose. I had expected a speedy visit from one of the brothers, but I had been in hopes that it would be Dwight, and not Guy, who would make it.
“I must speak to you at once; will you follow me?” asked that gentleman, bowing respectfully as I turned.
I glanced at Mrs. Harrington, but he impatiently shook his head.
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