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He shivered visibly. "No, Alida, and you wouldn’t either. She’d make you more nervous than she would me, and that’s saying a good deal. I do feel very sorry for her, and if Mrs. Weeks comes to see you, we’ll find out if something can’t be done, but her presence would spoil all our cozy […]
"He said he was ‘afeared I’d been taken in, you were such a sickly lookin’ critter.’ Ha! Ha! Wish he might see you now, with that flushed face of yours. I never believed in magic, but I’ll have to come to it. You are bewitched, and are being transformed into a pretty young girl right […]
To a superficial observer things might have appeared to be going on much as before, but there were influences at work which Holcroft did not clearly comprehend. As Alida had promised herself, she spent all the money which the eggs brought in, but Holcroft found pretty muslin curtains at the parlor windows, and shades which […]
"Well," he remarked, with a grim laugh. "I didn’t expect to be cornered in this way." "You who are truthful should face the truth. It would make you happier. A good deal that was unexpected has happened. When I look out on a scene like this and think that I am safe and at home, […]
