The Place Beyond the Winds by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
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page 244 of 351 (69%)
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He turned and fixed his deep, haunting eyes upon her.
"It's Priscilla Glenn!" he whispered, as if to reassure himself; "little Priscilla of the In-Place." By some trick of over-stimulated imagination Priscilla tried to adjust the gentle, kindly man she knew and loved to the strange creature into which he had evolved since last she met him, but she could not! To her he would always be the friend and helper, the understanding guide of her stormy girlhood. The rest was but shadows that came and went, cast by happenings with which she had nothing to do. They were holding each other's hands under the window from which Boswell was, perhaps, at that very moment watching and waiting. "Oh! my Master Farwell!" The tears rolled from the glad eyes. "I did not know how far and how sadly I had gone until this minute!" "But you have not forgotten to be little Priscilla Glenn. My dear! My dear! how glad and thankful I am to see you. You have grown--yes; you have grown into the woman I knew you would. Your eyes are--faithful; your lips still smile. Oh! Priscilla, the world has not"--he paused and his old, quivering laugh rang out cautiously--"the world has not--doshed you!" And then Priscilla caught him by the arm. "You have not seen--him?" she looked upward. "No. I was getting up my courage. The bird just freed from its cage--is |
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