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I suppose you think something is the matter that I don't come to see you now the way I used to. May broke in with an indignant [illegible] indeed but he went [illegible] isn't that but after I once stopped for a while I didn't know how to begin & if you don't mind if you'll let me I'd like to come now & then. You know I always liked you. Why of course replied May considerably taken aback we have been friends all our lifes & I don't know any reason why we shouldn't be now. I don't mean just that said he clumsily, I mean I like you better than I do other girls. May had literally nothing to say to this avowal & he appreciated the situation to ask her if she woul like to go into the other room.

Adverbs describe actins and qualities well badly how when where here there fast slowly how then ever lately always early often seldom daily yesterday to-day to-morrow very

May wanted to laugh when she thought of Tom's speech & she had a little feeling of grateful pride too for Tom was the great embodiment of great expectations to many of her acquaintances. Violet Wilsons particularly & being too lazy or too indifferent to visit her [?] he honorably paid a half hearted sort of attention of which she was very vain, May had told herself though he make himself of thisthat what Tom had said was quite as likely to mean very little as very much & with a little effort succeeded in putting it almost out of her mind. That winter was remembered as the gayest [Halberton?] had had. To be sure the excitement was all in a small way but there were many little card parties, skating parties, two sets of theatricals & a series of dancing parties along in the spring. It followed when one person entertained that another felt that she must do likewise, the young people were meeting each other continually & as they were not many in number

since been ever left out, At the end of a month or two Harry felt well acquainted with them all but especially with May & a few of his [?] particular, He went a good deal to the Stone's at first with Ned & then by himself. Their mutual enthusiasm over books made common ground between them & led to many discussions in which Harry came to know May [&?] her opinions better than many of her old friends, He [soon?] drew the inference that she was not happy though thanks to the prevalent idea with regard to her father's business affairs he did not suspect the real reason [Matthew?] [?] [?] Mrs Stone liked Harry but they did not think of interfering. Mr Stone was absorbed in business & yielding to a belief in fate which he would have laughed at eight or ten years before did not allow himself to think of the crash which would come sooner or later unless something unexpected happened to prevent it, the anxiety & fret told seriously on Mrs Stone's nerves & temper She was a woman of good impulses but she was quick temprd & fault-finding She never made up her mind to make anybody unhappy indeed she intended to [doubt?] [as] best she knew as she said but she was egotistical & quick to take offence & added to this she never stopped to reason about any thing. She had the impression that May had somehow infringed on her place in her husband's affections & she cherished this spark of

Interjections express sudden feeling. O! oh! ah! alas! lo! hurrah!

A Preposition is a a word used to show the relation between a following noun or pronoun and some other word.

supposed wrong letting it blaze forth now & then where any real or fancied provocation set it going. She would have laughed at the idea that her mother's fondness for May had really all faded away but it was [true?] May had [?] [grown?] her [gone?] beyond her & she resented the fact. She showed her feeling by a continual fault-finding & [taunting?] which May would have found unbearable if she had not been too much occupied with her father's unhappiness to think much about it. [To?] be sure Mrs. Stone had much right on her side. May was given to sitting down and [mourning?] over her griefs rather instead of giving her time to her daily duties or makng much effort to find a way out of her troubles. She was not practical & that was a trial to her practical mother & Mrs. Stone thought May ought not to complain of having a hard life when she had always had plenty to eat & to wear. You didn't have look out to see where your bread & butter's coming from she would say to her daughter & I don't know why you should go around looking as though you'd lost your last friend, the misunderstanding & lack of appreciation between May & her mother was unfortunate for both of them it embittered their lives & added an unnecessary

grief to their inevitable sorrows. Sometimes May understood this & one afternoon she made up her mind to go to her friend Mrs Merriam and ask her what she should do to make herself a pleasanter companion. /the two had been fond of each other ever since Mrs Merriam had come to H[alberston?] years before & her friends pretty home had been May's refuge & resting-place from many of her daily frets. She had for Mrs Merriam that feeling of reverence admiration of respectful love that nearly most girls havefor an older woman sometimes & that corresponds to her hero-worship of their brothers. It was quite late when she started this afternoon & she hurried along thinking of anything rather than the steps she was taking the ground has crossed with sun & as she went was a crossing a few steps [just?] [?] Mrs [Merriam's?] a sleigh being driven rapidly by 1 of her men came down the road May had on a hood &so did not hear the sleigh bells & only looked up when one of the men shouted She turned quickly to go back slipped & fell in the [crossing?] the man attempted to pull back his horse but it was going at a good gait & he was so close to her by that time that it was impossible to stop. She must inevitably have been over if a man who had been a little distance behind her had not leaped to her side & dragged her a little out of the way [so?] very little that the runners of the sleigh passed over one of the floating ends of the scarf she had about her head the men who were driving stopped long enough to see that no harm

had been done & then went over & May who had not lost consciousness but who seemed for a minute to be a sort of trance without power to move looked up at her rescuer. It was Harry Phillips My God Miss Stone you aren't hurt he said when he saw her face. You aren't hurt he said breathlessly the sound of his voice brought back her power of action. She shook her head & then attempted to rise. For a moment the sense of her deserted her & she realized [only?] the absurdity of the position. To Harry's great surprise she began to laugh. He helped her up & noticing how she was [breathing?] ask if he might not walk with her as far as she was going. Don't be afraid of [I shouldn't have hysterics?] or do anything absurd and only going [?] a step as far as Mrs Merriam's she replied but I wish you would come in with me for perhaps then I shall be able to thank you properly for saving my life. Neither spoke until they reached the house there was so much to say that they both felt unable to begin. May walked a little awkwardly & was very white They found Mrs Merriam in her [?] parlor, May felt that she must explain how Harry happened to have come so she tried to make as light of it as possible. I have had the most exciting adventure she began & then the full sense of the death she had escaped broke upon & She Her laugh changed to crying & she was [?] to give in to an attack of the very hysterics she had thought of with scorn. Why May my dear child whatever is the matter asked Mrs. Merriam astonished at this inexplicable conduct. May tried to talk but only sobbed the harder & Mrs. Merriam in despair turned to Harry for an explanation. He too

was a little white but he said in answer to the look Miss Stone was very nearly run over She fell on the crossing & there was a Signature means sign. sleigh Signature is placed at the beginning coming of the staff. which Signature contains clef key and time barely The clef places G. on the second line escaped The figures tell the time going over The sharps and flats the key, and her. May are placed between the clef and time tried to A scale is 8 sounds in regular order add that but for him the sleigh would have gone over her but she only sobbed the harder Mrs Merriam who saw at once that May had lost her self-control took off her wraps soothing her with gentle hands & urging her to go up-stairs & lie down But May was determined to conquer herself & when Mrs Merriam saw this she began to talk to Harry on indifferent subjects. By & by the crying grew fainter & fainter & after a time May said impulsively I hope you won't think me a perfect idiot for acting so [?] the feeling of what a horrible death it would have been flashed across me suddenly & I could not help it. I have thought sometimes--I suppose everybody has--that it would be a pleasant thing to die. but O my God that [sled?] [driving?] was dreadful I had a glimpse of the horse's hoofs as they it came but I didn't mind so much then I seemed to be numb stupefied & it was all over in a minute but when I tried to tell you [I remember?]

[find?] how awful it was. You must not talk any more about it dear interrupted Mrs. Merriam. We can understand how you felt. But you haven't told me what it was that saved you. It was Mr Phillips said May he was behind me & he ran & dragged me away a second later he couldn't have done it I can't thank him I don't know how if But Harry [hi?] be in don't say any more about it please Miss Stone anyone could have done what I did if you only knew how thankful I am that it was in time, I can't bear to think of it said Mrs Merriam who was white & cold herself at the idea of May's danger. Let's try to talk about something else. It had been just dusk when May & Harry & out of consideration for May's tear-stained face Mrs Merriam did not have the lamp lighted so they sat in the twilight until May declared that she must go home. Just as they were leaving the same Mrs Merriam said I have almost forgotten that I intended to write to you Mr Phillips if I had not seen you to-night Miss Stone & a few other of the young people are coming to spend a little time with me next Wednesday evening & I should be glad to have you make one of them. Harry accepted the invitation gladly & Mrs. Merriam added that she would like to have him feel at liberty to call any Wednesday when she was usually at home. When Harry left May at the When Harry reached the her gate May held out her hand & said impulsively I wish you would promise me that if ever I can attempt to repay you in any way little or great you will let me do it. Harry looked at her for a

minute & then said Miss Stone perhaps you will think that what I am going to say is chilled & unnatural but indeed I say it with all my heart. The chance of being of use to you is the greatest pleasure that could come to me. May withdrew her hand & with a confused good-night went in. Harry went on down the street without the slightest idea what he was doing When he came to a corner he stopped & remembered that he wanted to go home into the house where he lived & that he was walking in precisely the opposite direction. WhenHe went directly to his room when he did reach the house took a book [one?] of the new novels & sat down to read When supper-time came he went down-stairs but in spite of his effort he could eat nothing. He tried to keep himself from thinking of what had happened from the vision of May's white face that was continually [rising?] up before him & so he read feverishly eagerly until after midnight. But it was of no ended use for when the book was finished & he went to bed the [tarnished?] thoughts came up with more than the reappeared. Finally he decided that he might as well think of it all was it have done with it. The thing that troubled him was that the words, in the shock of May's great danger he had suddenly realized that he had for her a feeling which he tried to express in words when he told he that to be of service to her was the greatest pleasure that could come to him. He thought on his whole life & his feeling for other girls whom he had known

He had alway s been a little romantic had dreamed of an ideal love & all that but since it had become clear to him that there was little probability of his realizing his ideal of himself he had told himself that love was not for him that he was not fit for the kind of girl that he wanted & that the kind he might have he didn't care for Before Except May he had never known anyone who had tempted him It h[?]k his resolution & until that night he had not supposed that he had that kind of feeling for her. He had seen her very frequently for four months & he had enjoyed talking with her being near her but it was only when there was danger of her being taken away that he realized knew that she had come to be the first & best interest in his life. He was obliged to admit this to himself that she was so much to him it was no use to fight against the conviction he was certain that if he were [someone?] [like?] a man in Mr. Saunder's position for instance he would go the next day & ask her to be his wife. And that thought brought him to wondering what he was going to do. It would absurd for him to think of marrying under any circumstances if things were different though at that he did not know that May cared in the least for him will makeno little difference for then he would have a right to try to make her love him but now heas it was and he must not attempt to do that In a way it seemed ridiculous to even stop to think count of the reasons why he should not think of her being his wife they were so many & yet an [increase?] math hoping against hope made him go over them again & again. In the first place the