Now this was the end--of her as of everything so far as he was concerned.

To-morrow the project came down in wreckage.

Then he should go from Perro Creek, poorer in purse, poorer in spirit, poorer in faith, sore, and bitterly disillusionized.
Louise Graham observed a shadow upon his countenance as she invited him to a seat before the fireplace.

Her father was absent and she had been reading a book when Bryant's knock came.

She had been wondering, too, if the engineer might not choose this night to call again.