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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfection of natural beauty. But that afternoon, lying there on the topmost rock, with all that fair lake, with its hundreds of islands and inlets, stretched like a map before me, I could drink in none of the peacefulness of the scene. For I saw again that look upon Edmund Austen's face - that look that I have seen so often since; the look I cannot at all understand...
Just then I heard a little twitter, and whirring of wings. I looked up to see a flight of swallows above us. While I was still looking at them, and he was looking at me, with the look, one of the birds fell out a little from her companions, and circling round and round, drew very near, until - until - then I saw that its plumage was blood-red, and a drop of blood fell...
...shake them off - they told me that she was to go home, that I could not follow just then, not until I got better of the fever. I never shall get better. Not here, in Buenos Ayres, in my counting-room. I call this my counting-room, though people look at me as if they did not believe what I say, - the look, you know. She looked at me, Edith, from the carriage - ah! so sadly. There were tears in her eyes...
When he was gone the janitor drew out the diary and took a long, lingering look at it. Then he shook his head. He feared Margaret would not understand without a good deal of explanation. Margaret was the cook at 1884 Beacon Street. She had been engaged to the janitor just three days. Taking from his pocket a photograph of this lady, finished in colors in the most approved style of the art, he, by a dexterous use of De Smythe's penknife, removed the mirror and replaced it by the picture; and then, intending to call at 1884 Beacon...
...said Evangeline in her charming, coquettish way. "Who is she?" De Smythe's rapture was overflowing. "Look upon it," he said, "and you will behold her loveliest of faces," and rushing down the steps he ran for a West...