"I'll be their substitute. "Come to my arms,
Thames! Oh! dear! Oh! dear!"
To repeat the questions and congratulations which now ensued, or describe the
extravagant joy of the carpenter, who, after he had hugged his adopted son to his
breast with such warmth as almost to squeeze the breath from his body, capered
around the room, threw his wig into the empty fire-grate, and committed various
other fantastic actions, in order to get rid of his superfluous satisfaction—to
describe the scarcely less extravagant raptures of his spouse, or the more
subdued, but not less heartfelt delight of Winifred, would be a needless task, as it
must occur to every one's imagination. Still, that leaves over a million shrines short, not
reckoning widows who re-marry. ”
“You have seen her—since last night?”
“Yes. ‘Well, only look what’s come of it. You have said a thousand times that there was no
shame in you. And who is the man you are not allowed to marry? Valade,
perhaps?’
‘Dieu du ciel,’ exclaimed the girl, jumping up. He could not tell whether she was English or American. Now then. ‘I
have an arthritic complaint, which is why you find me retired from fashionable
life. A dark mass of wreckage, over which
hung a slight mist of vapour, lay half in the ditch, half across the hedge, close
under a tree from the trunk of which the bark had been torn and stripped. The fragrance of
dryer sheets lay upon her like the snow that now drifted
peacefully outside. A black-garbed
figure crept forward, noiselessly, towards Gosse’s back. That world of fine printed cambrics and escorted
maidens, of delicate secondary meanings and refined allusiveness, presented
itself to her imagination with the brightness of a lost paradise, as indeed for
many women it is a lost paradise.
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