A Daughter of Maryland — page 22: what you’re looking at

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A DAUGHTER OF MARYLAND. 7 If the young couple had any intentions of carrying out the major’s plan it had not been manifested by them, and he was twenty-two and she nineteen. Given their own good time, hearts will speak when lips are dumb. On a particularly sultry September day -the master of Sylvania was called to Annapolis on business; then Robert declared that notwithstanding the heat it was necessary to give his hounds an outing that afternoon, and without delay he started for the woods, leaving Aurian at home alone with the servants. But this was not an unusual situation for her, and she gave less thought to it than she did to the oppressive atmosphere. ‘*T don’t see how Robert can go racing after those half- wild dogs to-day. Why! it seems more like midsummer than early autumn. Get me my book, Furah, and we will go down to our favorite catalpa. It looks deliciously cool there. ’’ : ‘*An’ look! missus, I berrily b’lieve it am goin’ to be cooler fer dat cloud soon hide dat sun.’’ Aurian saw with surprise that within a few minutes a dark rim of clouds had risen above the mountain range, fret- — working the western horizon with its irregular peaks. ‘“There is going to be a storm, Furah, and it is coming up rapidly. Tell Mrs. Ralston to see that the house is put in order as soon as possible. I hope Robert will get home before—my ! who is that coming up the road at such break- neck speed. It can’t be Robert.’’ — ‘‘Tt’s S’posen Jones, missus! I sh’u’d know dat bob-up ob his’n cl’an outen sight. ’’ ‘Well, you hasten to Mrs. Ralston with my message, and I will meet S’posen at the gate. What can have happened that he rides like that? Perhaps Robert has met with an accident—got thrown from his horse. How I tremble!’’ Though immediately losing sight of the road as she ran down the pathway, she was enabled to mark the advance of comicboo SS) (ere)