Out of the Past — page 37: what you’re looking at

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34 Out of the Past. membered that to her he was not a spiritual guide; he was only a man in an unmanly black gown. “If you will allow me, I will call upon you in a day or two, when I have found a suitable family.” She rose and extended her hand cordially. “Tt is indeed good of you to take the trouble. I do not believe the letter meant very much. It is all pure kind- ness on your part.” “You are mistaken. I am doing only my duty.” “IT am equally obliged to you,” she said quietly, and went away with an indescribable distinction of bearing which strongly impressed Benedict. He shrugged his shoulders as he returned to his room, thinking, ‘“What an impossible task to overcome that independence of spirit and bring it within lines of submission to the church.” Rose Lloyd was but a girlish woman, young and im- pulsive. On returning to her pension, before removing her hat, she wrote a short, characteristic note. “My dear, dearest father: “How can you break my heart so by putting some one else in our home in place of my dear, beautiful mother? Don’t you remember how she went about the house sing- ing, and how she thought of the happiness of every one and remembered all the little things you liked and would never let any one else even darn your socks because they CONNIE OOO KS. ©