Henry C. Rowland

Name: Auld Jeremiah — Chapter X
Author: Henry C. Rowland

Auld Jeremiah — Chapter X (1913)

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“Auld Jeremiah — Chapter X”, published in 1913, is a work by Henry C. Rowland. It explores elements such as Ailsa, Joshua and sign painter.

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Henry C. Rowland, Auld Jeremiah — Chapter X (1913)

“ This appeal was too much for Joshua. He gathered her in his arms again, and the sacred rites were repeated with a frenzy by no means characteristic of coldness. Then, holding her closely to him, he spoke manfully what was in his mind, while Ailsa listened, sobbing the harder for the fact that she knew in her heart there was no appeal.
“Listen to me, my own darling,” he said. “I love you with every drop of blood in my body, and every fiber in my heart. But because I love you so much I am not going to let you throw yourself away on a wretched sign painter. ”

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Henry C. Rowland, Auld Jeremiah — Chapter X (1913)

“ One can scarcely blame Joshua for behaving as he did for the next few seconds. Indeed, had he acted otherwise his history would be scarcely worth describing. There are limits to nobility. But for all of that, he held himself in hand most admirably, and when his famishing thirst for the hot lips crushed to his had been in some slight measure assuaged, he loosed her gently, and drew slightly away, his face pale, and his big chest heaving.
“There, there, sweetheart!” said he gently. “That sort of thing is strictly outside the contract.”
“But I love you!” sobbed Ailsa. ”

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Henry C. Rowland, Auld Jeremiah — Chapter X (1913)

“ Pride, honor, and a sense of fairness told him that even if he were man enough to win the girl's heart, he had absolutely no right to make the attempt. His natural modesty failed to tell him that he had won it almost from the very first, and that nothing could more firmly clinch what he had gained than his unconscious attitude of unselfish comradeship and strong, protective force. ”

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Henry C. Rowland, Auld Jeremiah — Chapter X (1913)

“ Ailsa was not sure that she liked it.
“But how am I to start?” she asked. “It takes money, and a lot of time to build up a clientele. I'd rather paint signs with you, and be free to send back what I can spare to my people.”
“But suppose that in three or four years' time, instead of sending back, say, fifty dollars a month, you could send back two hundred and fifty? And you could do it, I am sure. You are a natural-born portrait painter. All you need is the start, and that I think I can get for you. I know a lot of good people, and most of the big dealers.” ”

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Henry C. Rowland, Auld Jeremiah — Chapter X (1913)

“ I might even manage to get you some big orders for theaters and hotels and the like. You see, Rosa, before your dear brother”—he slightly accentuated the word—“was a sign painter, he used to fly pretty high. I've got lots of friends left, if I haven't much money. Fact is, I wouldn't have to paint signs if I could bring myself to take something for nothing. But you're not nothing, and I'll take what I can get for you.”
Ailsa was silent for a minute. She leaned over, and began to flick the dried grains of sand from her round ankles and rosy feet. ”

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Henry C. Rowland, Auld Jeremiah — Chapter X (1913)

“ The chances are that another man, more self-assured, would have decided long since that the girl had grown really to care for him, and that not as a sister; but Joshua's was a nature of extreme self-depreciation.
It was his honest belief that he was, at best, a very uninspiring individual, and a good deal of a fool. He had carelessly frittered away a c0onsiderable fortune, and that in ways that did not particularly amuse him. He had entertained extravagantly people in whom he had no especial interest; gone in for motor racing in France, and horse-racing in England ”

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Henry C. Rowland, Auld Jeremiah — Chapter X (1913)

“ Perhaps it was the “brother,” a relationship now far less attractive than at the beginning of their comradeship. Or it may have been Ailsa's reference to her “horrid temper.” Joshua stole a glance at her as she sat placidly waiting for her feet to dry sufficiently to brush away the sand. ”

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