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oh my dear you must see him he expects you she answered almost gayly the procession of three moved down the long room towards a door phyllis's hand guiding the wheel-chair
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it was quite as much fun well almost as much hearing her as it would have been to play all of the contented and otherwise elderly people who inhabited the boarding-house with phyllis
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the man stole out and shut the door softly phyllis herself rose and went toward the window and busied herself in braiding up her hair there was almost silence in the room for a few minutes
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has it said phyllis it was like mrs harrington that careful planning of even where she should be put is mr harrington in his day-room now
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and she insisted that the pink paper stay on the electric lights after about a week of this phyllis suddenly remembered that she had not been selfish at all yet
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surprise i-i'm glad you like it said his wife shyly still backing away of course he'd like it said mrs de guenther's kind staccato voice behind him kiss your husband and tell him he's welcome home phyllis child
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you have everything that could be asked even to a certain cheerfulness of outlook which poor angela naturally lacks in a measure but-but what about me asked phyllis braithwaite a little piteously in answer to all this
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i've bought myself lots of things she defended herself most of this is really for me and-i can't help being good to him it's only common humanity
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his little crumpled black muzzle on the pillow close to allan's contented sleeping face she felt as if she wanted to cry the pathetic lack of interests which made the coming of a new little dog such an event
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she wondered afterwards how she could have spoken with that hard serenity how she could have gone steadily on with story after story poem after poem till allan's grip on her hands relaxed and he fell into a heavy tired sleep
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i'm going home now to have some lovely prunes and some real dried beef and maybe a glass of almost milk if i can persuade the landlady i need it
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wallis seemed rather relieved than otherwise waiting for a storm to break is rather wearing well sir mrs harrington she thought sir that-that a little move would do you good and you didn't want to be bothered sir bothered
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allan's cold hand closed kindly on hers he spoke for the first time as a well man speaks quietly connectedly and with a little authority
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and the work well of course most girls work is just a little more than they have the strength for always but i was awfully lucky to get into children's work
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if the girl thought about her swinging jewelries and endless leisure with a wish to have them for herself she had wanted such things she knew when she was being happy on fifty dollars a month and perhaps some of the women she had watched then had had heartaches under their furs
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she didn't know much about men but that was the way it always was in stories a man's heart would die under an automobile or anywhere else and all there was left for anybody else was leavings it wasn't fair
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he was the first man you had seen since you married me attractive and well and clever and all that-it would have been natural enough if you'd liked him
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the liberry teacher knew that it was her duty to go over and hypnotize the child into reading something which would lead more directly to browning and strindberg but she didn't
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even the most sunny-hearted liberry teacher may be excused for having thoughts that are a little tired and cross and restless
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nobody ever wanted something any kind of a something to happen more wildly than the liberry teacher did that bored stickily wet saturday afternoon with those tired seven years at the greenway branch dragging at the back of her neck
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might have had to do with making her son as hopeless minded as he was naturally the mother in law elect she had acquired in such a strange way became very fond of phyllis
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oh no it wasn't that at all said phyllis and thank you for being so generous about it all i wasn't generous said her husband i behaved like everything to old wallis about it well what was it then
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and it is hard to remain silently sunk in depression when an active small dog is imploring you by every means he knows to throw balls for him to run after
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phyllis's laugh tinkled out oh i love playing with dolls she said mischievously and you ought to see my new slippers i have pink ones and blue ones and lavender and green all satin and suede
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a princess too in the story but where had she gone the two of them only he had said it must have been scarcely a month the story went on mr de guenther was telling it as if he were stating a case
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intellect ah yes said mr de guenther absently in the barside manner and then sitting calmly with his silvery head against a washington's birthday poster so that three scarlet cherries stuck above him in the manner of a scalp-lock
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especially when where you were brought up rose-gardens were one of the common necessities of life and more especially when you are tired almost to the crying point and have all the week's big sisters back of it dragging on you
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and when it was all over she bent pitifully before she thought and kissed one white cold cheek he seemed so tragically helpless yet more alive in some way since she had touched his hand to guide it
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i don't mind said allan harrington listlessly i suppose you are quiet and trustworthy or de guenther wouldn't have sent you it will give mother a little peace and it makes no difference to me
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he knew how it appeared and phyllis naturally didn't however she managed to follow his directions successfully she had bought recklessly of rag-time discs and provided a fair amount of opera selections
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what could there have been about her to hold allan so long she glanced at his weary face again this would never do what had come to be her dominant instinct keeping allan's spirits up emboldened her to bend forward and even laugh a little
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mrs clancy's choice had been cheerful to a degree and black all of it a fat virginia cook a slim young tuskegee chambermaid of a pale saddle color
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telling him all about it as if everything were as usual and pleasant as possible and the present state of things had always been a pleasant commonplace and wallis began to serve the picnic supper
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for the rest allan proved to have naturally a lighter heart and more carefree disposition than phyllis his natural disposition was buoyant wallis said that he had never had a mood in his life till the accident
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then followed mr de guenther pleasant and unperturbed as usual and after him an agreeable back arching gray cat who had copied his master's walk as exactly as it can be done with four feet
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but indeed there was something very gay and sweet and honest-minded about the girl a something which gave people the feeling that they were very wise in liking her
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i'd rather you'd stay if you don't mind he answered phyllis looked at him intently he was white and dispirited and his voice was listless oh phyllis thought if louise frey had only been kind enough to die in babyhood instead of under allan's automobile
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he has been unable to walk since and which is sadder his state of mind and body has become steadily worse he can scarcely move at all now and his mental attitude can only be described as painfully morbid yes
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the liberry teacher liked it it was pleasant beyond words to sit nestlingly in a pluffy chair and hear about all the little lightly treated scholarly day-before-yesterday things her father had used to talk of
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morbid yes i may say very painfully morbid sometimes he does not speak at all for days together even to his mother or his attendant oh poor boy said phyllis how long has he been this way
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or any girl that marries them without any trouble but taking care of a man one man couldn't but be easier than a whole roomful of library babies
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bothered sir bothered shouted allan not at all like a bored and dying invalid i should think i did when a change in my whole way of life is made
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allan watching them out of earshot from the living-room where he had been wheeled saw phyllis smiling warmly up at his friend lingering in talk with him giving him both hands in farewell and he saw too hewitt's rapt interest and long leave-taking
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phyllis thank you he said wearily phyllis don't let go talk to me his eyes were those of a man in torment
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we'll have to be said allan laughing for here's wallis and as i live from the direction of the house i thought they carried our friend the tramp out through the hedge he must have gone all the way around
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all four sat amiably about the room and held precise and pleasant converse something like a cheerful essay written in dialogue about many amusing intelligent things which didn't especially matter
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she flung herself back in her desk-chair and watched with brazen indifference giovanni and liberata bruno stickily pawing the colored bird book that was supposed to be looked at only under supervision
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slippers why she was actually using her wedding finery and what an easily upset person that man was but everybody in the house seemed to have nerves on edge it was no wonder about allan he wanted his mother of course poor boy
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secretly it was a pleasure to him to find that he was alive enough to care what happened enough for anger he demanded presently where he was going
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minutes thank-you said allan brokenly will you-come back please she returned swiftly and sat by him as she had before
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his voice was very moved and caressing and the darkness was deepening as the fire sank only an occasional tongue of flame glinted across phyllis's silver slipper buckle and on the seal-ring allan wore
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liked him said phyllis in disdain when there was you and i thought-i thought it was the memory of louise frey that made you act that way you didn't want to talk about her and you said it was all a mistake i
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she was not thinking about herself at all only of how she could help allan but there must have been something about her of the picture-book angel to the pain-racked man lying tensely at length in the room's darkest corner
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and then phyllis threw back her shoulders and laughed as she had sometimes in the library days and reminded herself what a nice world it was any way and that allan was going to be much helped by johnny hewitt that was a cheering thought anyhow
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you'd been unable to move for so long that when you were able to at last your subconscious mind clamped down on your muscles and was convinced you couldn't
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she was surprised to find herself shaking with fright just what she expected to find beyond the door she did not know but it must have been some horror
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and somehow having to do that checked the chilly awe she had had before of allan harrington it made her feel quite simply sorry for him as if he were one of her poor little boys in trouble
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and a shiny brown outdoor man who came from nowhere in particular but was very useful now he was here phyllis had seen them all this morning and found them everything servants should be now she was looking after allan as her duty was
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back in long-ago in the little leisurely windblown new england town where phyllis braithwaite had lived till she was almost eighteen there had been a principal grocer
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but this answer did not seem to suit allan for some reason phyllis said no more about the masseur she only decided to summon him any way and presently wallis came in and turned all the lights on
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she always remembered that journey as long as she lived her hands and feet and tongue going on buying tickets giving directions and
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my dear child she replied firmly you are going to have one pretty frock and one really good street suit now or i will know why
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phyllis sat and let herself be talked to for a little longer then she rose impulsively may i go back and see your son again for just a minute she asked and had gone before mrs harrington had finished her permission
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but then she wouldn't be young so very much longer should she-she put it to herself crudely should she wait long hard closed-in years
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he agreed with her that this much progress made a good deal more might follow he promised to come back very soon and see as much of them as possible
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and he did not look in the least like a messenger of fate the liberry teacher was at a highly keyed part of her narrative and even the most fidgety children were tense and open-mouthed
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it was easy to tell things there in the perfumed duskiness it was a great many years since any one had cared to hear the cry side and
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she had been spoken to once or twice in the city but there there was always a policeman or a house you could run into if you had to but here in the unguarded dusk of a country lane it was a different matter
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was it then i i only you looked so different in clothes pleaded phyllis like any man my age or older as if you might get up and go to business or play tennis or anything
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when you are being married to a crusader on a tomb the easiest way is to kneel down by him phyllis registered this fact in her mind quite blankly as something which might be of use to remember in future
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she had not for years spent six hours with a man of her own kind and age she had not even been specially in love that she could remember since she was grown up she did not feel much now as if she ever would be
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poor boy poor silent beautiful statue with his one friend gone she opened the door and entered swiftly into his room
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so that was why she had imagined something of the sort and she-she herself was doubtless the outcome of one of mrs harrington's long detailed plans insisted on to allan till he had acquiesced for quiet's sake
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the young madam was planning to stay all the summer he believed mrs clancy had been left behind to look after the other servants and he understood that she had seen to the engagement of a fresh staff of servants for the country
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now phyllis was tired with much hurried work and overstrung and allan lying there smiling boyishly up at her
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she found herself at the door of her room with the locked suit-case in her hand and not even a nail-file of the things belonging to her old self in it
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when it came to the putting on of the wedding-ring she found herself very naturally guiding allan's relaxed fingers to hold it in its successive places and finally slip it on the wedding-finger
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how did mr allan pass the night phyllis asked wallis anxiously standing outside his door next morning she had been up since seven speeding the parting guests and interviewing the cook and chambermaid
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she shook herself together managed to laugh a little and returned and put in such things as she thought she would require for the night then she went
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and all its little sisters to come worrying at you and time not up till six but the liberry teacher went blindly on straightening shelves nearly as fast as the children could muss them up and thinking about that rose-garden she wanted
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and when i get time i'm going to buy dresses to match and a banjo maybe with a self teacher there's a room upstairs where nobody can hear a thing you do i've wanted slippers and a banjo ever since i can remember
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allan felt her look and looked up at her he had been reading a magazine for phyllis had succeeded in a large measure in reviving his taste for magazines and books
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the talking-machine was also a surprise for allan phyllis thought afterward that she should have saved it for another day but the temptation to grace the occasion with it was too strong
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phyllis laughed oh worse than that she said i was named out of a poetrybook i believe phyllis narcissa but i always conceal the narcissa
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allan she asked standing above him do you think you could stand being talked to for a little while why-yes said allan opening his eyes a little more wallis get mrs harrington a chair
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she felt contented and belonging even before quick smiling slender little mrs de guenther came rustling gently in to greet her
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the children already sitting in a decorous ring on their low chairs seemed after the first surprise to approve of phyllis
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directions and her mind like a naughty child catching at everything as they went and screaming to be allowed to go back home back to the dusty matter-of-course library and the dreary little boarding-house bedroom
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it sounded heartless to her after she had said it but it seemed the only way to speak she smiled at him bravely allan looked at her mutely for a moment as if she had hurt him
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in the faith that she would learn to be absolutely contented or that some man she could love would come to the cheap boarding-house or the little church she attended occasionally when she was not too tired fall in love with her work dimmed looks at sight and marry her
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and where art thou now cried the stranger to robin hood and robin roared with laughter oh in the flood and floating down the stream with all the little fishes said he she was relating breathlessly
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she carried on her own small part in the talk blithely enough she approved of herself and the way she was behaving which makes very much for comfort
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the de guenthers were not the only people phyllis had hypnotized he gave allan other details as they went on however his clothes and personal belongings were coming on immediately there were two suit-cases perhaps he had noticed in the car with them
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and eva atkinson had been his daughter not so very pretty not so very pleasant not so very clever and about six years older than phyllis
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she never remembered eva atkinson's carefully prettied face or her own vivid work-worn one at all she only dreamed that far at the end of the pink entirely different line-a very hard one to walk there
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you know they call massage lazy people's exercise i believe you're really interested in making me better said allan after a long silence why of course said phyllis laughing that's what i'm here for
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he was always laughing then and suddenly there surged up in phyllis a passionate resolve to give allan back at least a little of his lightness of heart
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she did not want it till she had earned it and anyway it would have made the whole thing so real she knew that she would have backed out and it isn't as if i were going to a lover she defended herself to mrs de guenther with a little wistful smile
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and in effect it proved that albert was in politics to some purpose for orders came up from the head's office within twenty minutes after mrs de guenther had used the telephone on her husband that miss braithwaite was to have a half-day immediately as
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what shall i talk about she asked soothingly keeping the two cold clutching hands in her warm grasp shall i tell you a story i know a great many stories by heart and i will say them for you if you like it was part of my work
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