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Out of the Shadows, Or, Trial and Triumph
Out of the Shadows Or Trial and Triumph Author:Ella Giles Ruddy Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. LITTLE MRS. PEIMKOSB. On a certain avenue in the city where our heroine resided, and about two miles distant from her home, was a pretty little... more » brown cottage, with the loveliest of green vines climbing the window as if trying to play a game of peep-a-boo with the pretty little woman living inside, who had diligently labored to train them in the way they should grow. And as the green vines crept on and the morning-glories struggled forth to nod their greeting, the little lady sometimes raised the sash, and smilingly looking out, set their invisible hearts to throbbing with joy and ecstacy, by the very kindness of her glances. She was a widow, and her name was Mrs. Primrose. When her husband died she was left the sole occupant of the brown cottage. But on this particular morning of which we write, she was radiant with expectation and happiness. She was about to start for the station to meet a brother whom she had not seen for a number of years. He had grown dissatisfied with the location in which he had beenpracticing law, and was coming to reside with her; intending to pursue his calling. " He will soon appear, birdie," said Mrs. Primrose, who, being a woman of exceeding loquacity, was usually talking to her pets if nothing more. Birdie looked down from the bower of house- plants in which his cage was hanging, chirped a little and pecked proudly at his yellow wing. Then Mrs. Primrose glanced into the kitchen and addr.essed her servant. "Dinner a little later to-day. I am going to the depot now, for my brother Paul." The servant merely looked an assent, but the tea-kettle puffed a few miniature clouds of steam and seemed to warble, in sympathy with Mrs. Primrose, a song of welcome. Then the little woman, who was as domestic as it is possible for just such ...« less