The Flower Brides by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill [Hill, Grace Livingston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781634095358
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2015-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

At first Diana did not realize where she was going. Her only object was to get out of that bank and away from Mr. Dunham. That she was hurt to the quick was manifest in the way she walked, with long fleeing strides, and the ground seemed fairly to fly under her feet. She walked as if she were going to some direct appointment, and people watched her, turned to look after her, and marveled at her graceful movements. She made her way through a crowded street, and it seemed almost as if the crowds divided at her coming. She slid through breathlessly, crossing streets without noticing where she was, rushing on like something wound up and not able to stop.

But her mind was smarting as if a whip were lashing it. Her father had done this to her! He had stopped her money and brought her to shame before his acquaintance! His banker knew she was gone, without knowing the reason! Oh, how could she ever live this down? To her inflamed mind the whole thing grew in proportion until it seemed that the worst humiliation there could be had been put upon her. So far from feeling sorry for her, her father was only anxious to get her back and bend her to his will, wishing to punish her for having refused to try to live in the same house with Helen! Her lips were quivering as she walked, and large tears swelled out and threatened to fall; yet she held them back and went on. Her soul was bursting with sorrow. Her father had so far descended as to use her little income as a whiplash to force her back to him.

Well, never would she go back to get money, even if she starved!

And that brought her to the next thing. She must get a job at once!

She had walked until she was breathless and weary, though she did not realize it, but suddenly she came to the end of things. A river ahead with no bridge and only a sharp turn to the left if she wanted still to go on.

She paused an instant. The river winked and beckoned to her, in bright sunny sparkles between the shipping craft and wharfs, and suddenly she came to herself and gave a sane brave little laugh. She was Diana Disston, and tragedy was not to be carried on by her. If other people did crazy things, she couldn’t help it, but she could help it if she let them drive her to do more of them. Somehow she had to work this thing out, to get rid of the pain in her heart and find a way to exist, without money, if necessary, but not by doing anything wild.

There were few people around when she gave that laugh, just some men standing about the door of a warehouse, one or two lounging on steps, watching a tug slowly pulling a barge out into the river. They were

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