Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
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done. And be sure of this, Red: I shall never be hurt when you show me
that you want to fight something out alone, there. It must be your own and private place, just as if I hadn't come." Sober now, he stood looking straight down into her eyes, which gave him back his look as straightly. After a minute he spoke with feeling: "Thank you, dearest. And bless you for understanding so well. At the same time I'm confident you understand one thing more: That by leaving a man his liberty you surely hold him tightest!" CHAPTER III BURNS DOES HIS DUTY "Excuse me for coming in on you at breakfast," Martha Macauley, Ellen's sister and next-door neighbour, apologized, one morning in late May. "But I wanted to catch Red before he got away, and I saw, for a wonder, that there was no vehicle before the door." "Come in, come in," urged Burns, while Ellen smiled a greeting at her sister, a round-faced, fair-haired, energetic young woman, as different as possible from Ellen's own type. "Have a chair." He rose to get it for her, napkin in hand. "Will you sit down and try one of Cynthia's magnificent muffins?" |
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