Keynotes by Mary Bright

Author:Mary Bright [Bright, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub

I feel there would be no use trying to move her; I simply kiss her hands and say,—

“As you will, dear woman; I shall be here.”

We don’t say any more; she sits down on a footstool with her head against my knee, and I just smooth it. When the clocks strike ten through the house, she rises, and I stand up. I see that she has been crying quietly, poor, lonely, little soul! I lift her off her feet and kiss her, and stammer out my sorrow at losing her, and she is gone.

Next morning the little maid brought me an envelope from the lady who left by the first train. It held a little gray glove. That is why I carry it always, and why I haunt the inn and never leave it for longer than a week; why I sit and dream in the old chair that has a ghost of her presence always, dream of the spring to come with the May-fly on the wing, and the young summer when midges dance, and the trout are growing fastidious; when she will come to me across the meadow grass, through the silver haze, as she did before,— come with her gray eyes shining to exchange herself for her little gray glove.

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