The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

246 The Gates Ajar. It was quite dark when she turned her face at last towards the window. "John!" she said, -" why, John!" They came in, with heads uncovered and voices hushed, to see her, in the days while she was lying down stairs among the flowers. Once when I thought that she was alone, I went in, - it was at twilight, - and turned, startled by a figure that was crouched sobbing on the floor. ", I want to go too, I want to go too! " it cried. " She's ben there all day long," said Phoebe, wiping her eyes, " and she won't go home for a mouthful of victuals, poor creetur! but she jest sets there and cries and cries, an' there's no stoppin' of her!" It was little Clo. At another time, I was there with fresh flowers, when the door opened, creaking a little, and'Bin Quirk came in on tiptoe, trying in vain to still the noise of his new boots. His eyes were red and wet, and he held out to me timidly a single white carnation. "Could you put it somewhere, where it would n't do any -harm? I walked way over

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
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