Fred S. Lincoln

Name: An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9
Author: Fred S. Lincoln

An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9 (1901)

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“An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9”, published in 1901, is a work by Fred S. Lincoln. It explores elements such as Virgie, Brandt and widow.

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9 (1901)

“ He tried to do and failed, then tried again and again, and always failure came to reward him. He knew now the cause of it all, and Kent's words impressed him with their strangely fitting application to his own hopes. They were near bringing him back to his youthful feeling of resentment against causes outside his own making when he went drifting off into the happy days of his wooing that lasted into a delicious nap of refreshing dreams. His tired brain took up the order of his early days in glowing sequence and bore him along in a labyrinth of joys unspeakable. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9 (1901)

“ All hope is not gone yet. You know there is still lots and lots of happiness for everybody, so why not make the most of it?" And, though still suffocating from his words, that filled her with guilty shame and partial resentment, she led them back to smiles and laughter through the medium of the children.
The meal finished, and the women occupied with their feminine interests, Brandt slipped away to his room of books, and, throwing himself into his easy chair, gave his thoughts over to other days, influenced by the young parson's burning words. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9 (1901)

“ Sister Callum and Widow Martin were roused to a high pitch of expectancy as the thunderous tones vibrated through the little room and shook them with a momentary terror. They felt the responsibility of the new conditions that were constantly becoming more evident between these young people, and they absorbed every look, action or word of each in the hope of a solution. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9 (1901)

“ Virgie laughed outright, lifted his face to hers and kissed him squarely on his ruddy mouth. Recovering himself with solemn dignity he looked Brandt full in the face as the old man turned about, and his expression was so defiant that Brandt opened his eyes in wonderment.
"My goodness, what a scare you gave me!" he said, drawing himself as far away as the breadth of seat would permit. Bennie laughed foolishly, and followed up the advantage with a mild onslaught that ended by his nearly falling out of the wagon. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9 (1901)

“ He knew now, as he sat alone, an exiled old man estranged from his own people, the cause of his failure, and he reviewed for the thousandth time, as he had done in late years, the elements of his failures. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9 (1901)

“ What you suppose 'tis?"
"It certainly beats all creation," Mrs. Martin replied, unable to discuss the matter further for lack of enlightenment, but speedily resolved to learn more at once.
Virgie passed out of the church hurriedly, bent on getting away from her friends to where she could nurse her own feelings and reason out her much-perturbed thoughts; but Brandt insisted on remaining for a moment to discuss the sensational sermon with the admiring members, and Virgie was drawn back into their midst an unwilling listener. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9 (1901)

“ When he held out his hand like this (and here the widow thrust her hand and arm out full length toward Virgie with imitating emphasis) an' said 'Earthly hopes air on'y sorrow. God gives hopes thet air of joy fulfilled.' Thet's not happiness," she resumed after a pause, "thet's disappointment—thet's what it is—thet made him say it th' way he did," and, though she gave no evidence of observing her auditor's agitation, she throbbed with an inward satisfaction difficult to conceal. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 9 (1901)

“ You are not a baby then, but who would ever have expected a man to raise such trouble with two helpless young ladies like sister and I, and on Sunday, too?" Virgie said, in a conciliatory tone, as she watched his darkened face with an amused smile. ”

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