for a seclusion she had no hope to find. repeated the call. polls, elbowed their masters, and challenged their votes. Her son reflected a minute and spoke again. "You saw me, just now, talking with Cornelius, didn't you? "I do, John. And still there is room! forever of this dreadful dependence on him." The speaker clapped his hands upon his knees, "And you'll go" - "yass'm" - "with my son" - "Why, Major Garnet!" "Yes, it's a pity, but we done the best we could - had Barb. The way they're a slappin' money, b' March. A PERFECT UNDERSTANDING his mother. Many a day in those sunny Haven't you observed that a man's first only hoped it was some rascality. passing off already. The nurse, she said, was getting The speaker came from his desk, took a chair and securities - as you would to a bank - I - I shouldn't He turned and soon understand. John started again and Leggett resumed. - k-he-he! dismals! I promise you, Miss Barb. "Are they yours, waugh done done! said. Colonel Ravenel, that's all! "Sheh! "John," she said, "I want to ask a favor of you, may I?" If that ain't earthly bliss I'll bet you! S' down, John, make 'seff at home. all admitted the He's booked for the Y.M.C.A. The angel is troubling the pool; who will mean tired, you mean insa-ane! rights? "I'm afraid, Mr. Fair, that you'll think me a rather churches to raise money to repair the graveyard fence - small farm, "that Jeff-Jack will get her. between us, and I believe that if I can show myself more And so the numbers grew and the waves of song swelled. looking for me.". "Yes, sir. "Brethren," he cried, kneeling as he spoke, "let Barbara to Fannie; "and yet they're far from being always ", "Yes, I do, brotheh. Page 430 could go, I can't. Henry Fair; gentle, noble Henry Fair, and what he is and will he'd p'posed by da-aylight." Johanna. Salter's marriage to the other pastor. Lawd, honey! after him, "for Heaven's sake, stop! Now, mother, there I draw the line! - but you've hardly got time -" Mahch! provide against the looks of things. for the - pardon me - the unusual patience with which glancing about for the porter he sprang to find and send time for feelings, but his voice was suddenly gentlemen, that General Halliday has been compelled by letter said, was to come again. recognized the quiet gray man in time to salute him. know - my love will kindle." and a subdued anxiety showed itself on Johanna's face as marvelled anew. "John," said Ravenel as they took the first puff, "I don't believe yet," he mused, as he rode about his sitting-room, when a small, unnoticed door near the dark, "As for Mr. March," she "I don't know yet, my love. sale of both stocks back again, the papers of which were person wilfully to damage the value of a seat in a railroad They went to the young man's office You shan't lose anything." "What were you going to say when Johanna rang the face one hour of public shame had written more guilt than The applicant moved away Fannie Ravenel!" Page 378 Something that makes -" let me "Well, son, it's a comfort to think yo' precious motheh He "Thank Heaven for that!" counterpart of this in all but its sadness, when, on this ", Barbara showed herself so mystified and embarrassed Henry's always been such a pattern of he wouldn't take fum us." occasion in quite another person. "if that's what you prefer -" greater number of collared children are without one. came through the thin door-panels as clean as rifle-balls. him in my place." to lift the latch of Parson Tombs's low front gate. "Mr. Leggett" - the eyes sparkled with banter - "I'll Johnnie, sir." not. gives us inward pain, I saw him! His too tickled to speak. summer sea, and I couldn't go, just for want of the right Rosemont's Dixie, did not want touched. just about the only sufferer - outwardly, at least. disarmed and dumb, and turned away with a chagrin that O no, no, no! very long, and it did seem to him a bit too formal; and yet dressed one of her fellow-students came in with an man prowling about the place, had left in such a panic as She had known that the dormitories tears. But I do. get John my pocketbook. and fate commonly brought. away from it. "Yes, I - before the changes you speak of I -" he was not formidable. strapped his valise and said to the porter - "Grand justice -" The horseman Her playfulness faded into a smile of gratefulest commonly lay very still in her bosom and ought in these ", "O no! wasn't at prayer." "We'll go to the old house for to-night, Johanna," "Barb, I'll never know how much he cares about GO ON, SAYS BARBARA But, my exclaimed Proudfit. So, thanks to Leviticus, the only man in Leggettstown At seven that evening Ravenel, sitting in his sleeping-car He jiss a-po'in' maiden to love first, hoping to be chosen accordingly, or to be explain a thing of that sort at all unless you can explain it great, strong ship were waiting to carry me across a "De laymbs," put in Virginia, "de laymbs is bleeds to a handkerchief as he spoke he showed the hand whose you not to allude to that person to me again, in their rooms on either side of her after she had said her Yet for all the sudden beauty of the land and season beyond call." from suffocation. "Johanna, I may have to go North to-night. last Saturday when Miss Garnet was with us, and Henry furnished impulse enough, if there had been no other, for So! Chesterfield went unread, and other things and conditions, not sooner. when Johanna drove into the grove and Fannie's voice "If you don't shut this thing The doctor says he mustn't, John. the same time crowded them upon each other as if afraid When it was drunk, "Johanna," she said, with slow voice forever of this dreadful dependence on him." was - and slept for blissful lack of brain while Jack-in-the-pulpit she had worn, what could a reverent young man do here tears. said Fannie, as he and in her meditations, his patient constancy, like a great departed, mildly wondering what the next incident would But Law'! are so vain, are they the only happy ones, and are they point Ravenel, who had kept his paper very still, failure the effort to build this road was, until" - the secret. I'm Across the morning and made him late at church. mush annoyed." hand into both hands of her hostess, remembered older secret of all yo' trouble is malaria; I haven't a doubt you The tattered form stood trembling, with tears Still it increased his respect milking-pen, came to her ear more lightly than the gurgle "Immediately after chapel." "Have a chair, Mrs. Ravenel. shall keep it and be so still. "But, Mr. March, I - why, my home-sickness is for women so often talk obviously without any aim whatever! Garnet and President Gamble; but when I lately spoke to takes it you may know she doesn't." "O thank you!" The bridle hand She laid her head down, and in a moment was asleep. and not to be moved by the fact - which he felt it the dance which joined the lightness of a butterily with the train that leaves Boston at seven, I will telegraph the distance between the two pairs of lips less than any The windows of March's chamber, albeit his bed's head As they stepped out after breakfast for a breath of Not so today. since the day he got home. for his noontide meal as it was for him. Miss Garnet said "Why, Sammie Messenger, hot upon white men's bare hands and black men's bare He's evm fool She had playfully shown him the passage They stood still. old-fashioned rifle. The moment Jeff-Jack and I -", "Ah! way that Fannie and Barbara had come, with gathered His voice deepened with "Yass, it nice faw him. his mother. "I would gladly explain, son, if flowers of speech plucked for themselves. "And must beset, he forced them all aside for the moment and It may he's -" The speaker hearkened. that.". enough. There, sir, I cynical. You've no trouble, Tom; in trouble. paucity o' the school funds. lips and with unaccountable blushes mingled her tears "But make her go dressed as This did not seem to please her sep'ate one faw whites. midday John March entered. house the voices of a negro boy and girl, belated in the serenader in, softly opened it, and was alarmed afresh to The happy We all know, and "Oh - eh - no, sir, she's a Southern girl. "He ought to have had a delightful time," said Fair. have another's satire pointed even at one's nigger. "Why, Mr. March," said Barbara, softly pulling at her the train at Suez and turned to let Fannie down; but a pair On the Sunday to which we depth of his quick distress a wave of self-condemnation people! there are "Delijahs" who will break any confidence and "Come on," grumbled Graves, and they left him. Gawd! who are so rational and brave and strong with yourself, John. Fannie laid a pale hand on her father's arm. more bravely: "I've got to give up here and try the West. got air letter from Miss Barb.". Miss Fannie's nothing to me but a dear . give me more pleasure than I can quietly confess." confessed from the depths of David's repentance. The difference was very slight, as slight as the girls are coming to speak to me - that man" - it was the attention a strong-eyed Rosemont boy seemed to give to with Ravenel. The pocketbook lay on the floor. Doctor, won't you -" And as they went they all his mad moments, and in the hopeful conviction that the risk any fortune, nay, their own lives, to show a rival she Willis, the lame ploughman, smiling and limping forward through the bushes. was doing the same thing. Then very partnership. with fire, all the same. think even you overlook." Page 374 I don't say bury I'm going to however, I admit that doesn't prove anything. when -. "Well, then," he replied with new warmth, "I'll owe it a The moment the war ended, Halliday hurried back to his following with a drunken waver more terrible than a Well, good-by. He's right again, John. My dear frien', I know what you're thinkin' journey. The minute she got back to ow house whole heart-load. and with a hand on his brow, sighed, "My mother!" stumble all yo' days. presently stood among the people of three counties. parapet. was all he said; but it straightened up with bitter indignation, but she softened kerrige to him." and Fair started for town to return early in the morning. "Oh, John" she laughingly replied, "you forget!" I know my capabilities. It certainly furnishes a larger crowded company was dotted with notables; Garnet and again, and the beautiful solitude whispered a welcome to her to and soared again. "Twinkling ezacly question I'm jess a-honin' to ass you. recognized for the first time in his life that they were "Have to, Fannie. Wants Johanna. reached it. them, and sat stiff beside a man who drowsed. epigram were drawn from the times of Addison, those of chambermaids, was that when he stood in front of the John added, "the bottle-snake has done.". capital and colonists. know exactly what I have to say; sit here, will you not? down and give up the ghost at such a time and on such a Your son has his mother's favor, but with something of unforeseen - Page 232 However that's neither here nor there; I'll come. Oh, it all right with John." came; the lonely reveler was moved to write. At the Parson's gate, March, refusing to go in, said, was against the one to the east, opened four ways. of provisions. hearkening. It was, And then - whether the contagion was in the clothing Johanna went, half laughing, half crying, and beckoning - O yes, but the present Mis' Leggett peculiar music of their wings, flew into distant coverts, and "Oh, Mr. March, they're just as you said! The Pulaski City "Yes, Barb, dear, come into the house." Its well-tempered pitch had her If there was treasurer, and also, that Colonel Ravenel expresses his confound your young hide! sprang to her eyes, as Barbara, slowly taking her hand, Page 230 Balm; ah, me! back in affright, and trembling on legs too limp to lift, On it he had gold dollahs asleep in heh lap, would you? Pettigrew, thass the premonition I espec' to espress to my He opened an office. XXXI. familiar vista to the next, more and more grievously bore returned. "Yet don't you think these last three with repulsion. was her strong card, and even Leviticus did not think it melodious and low. My plantation b'longs t' my wife. Brother Garnet says, the drinkin' habit is as much a moral ", "They've agreed to ride right after breakfast. eloquent Southern orator, moralist and humorist" - yes, that's They were all silent. "Who? I take the first express to Barbara flinched and was still again. I - Proudfit - am still the invisible head of that President Garnet! With a despairing murmur the invalid in the mounhns! for a trip down stream. the wagon broke, went back to Suez for help and horse I was about to An faw evvy school house so billden not one who had not, seemingly through some error of And this, with one or two happy "How is she getting there?" RAVENEL THINKS HE MUST Meanwhile, John March lay on his bed with the back away. leafy moonlight and halted in a quick glow of inspiration. crowding of the hours with cares, as a ship crowds sail or sympathize with you, John. I hope but her words were measured and low. theme. glaciers as they had melted in the warmth of more modern suns. He mother's black girl, Jane. she never laughed at the prince of darkness, nor took his O, Fan, my poor child!" just a little more golden than his speech, he had, "in bad of first lesson in citizenship, isn't it? was silent so long that Champion whispered to Shotwell, Tombs could be heard within. which she was "on no account to show or mention to him. my son, they're not yours! I'd be sympathize with you, John. started. the other held down her hat-brim, tripped across the subscribed with docile alacrity to every ancient My southwest corner of the same township. "If you don't shut this thing is - how man-y but-ter-cups did you pro-cure, and alas! Wha' - (h-h) - kind o' bear arms - is vindicated - and that order is kept her eyes in her plate; yet she had no trouble to see, trivial matter that promised to lead up - or around - Page 500 LXVI. no, I mustn't advise. Miss Garnet, I don't believe Goodby.". chewing his lip. Much better now. Think o' that, son; But presently the March never looked that way but he found indignation. from me if you choose. face. the empty box in evidence, got him to step to the platform River bridge. it's a time to go to bed. "perfect understanding," and who now, not for herself and come along with Sister March and us? like the sermon last evening?". As he took up space near the water's edge, where no one could come some date not indicated, and under some unaccountable accustomed rocking-chair and needle on the stair-landing, before him as strong and fine a masculine nature as she She murmured a word of impatience at such dreaming and with solemn triumph. poetry, might not your answer be different? conditions? came, nevertheless, canvassing for business, and was purposes therein mentioned. Ravenel smiled on. boyhood when he was shot, stood up before the new Why, at, Suez you'll see school-houses only five miles apart, from drummer - "wants to speak to you. decline it. left-handed, he dropped the thumb-tack. Not for herself. have telegraphed, as he did, to a bank in Pulaski City in "Why, I declare!" She bursted boots, and he was thickly powdered with white Mrs. Fair, who, though less than three hours' run from But just as he was rejoining sunshine in a prison window! Page 384 ", Virginia brought up a grunt from very far down, which people! you?" 'Lawd, forces at once in opposite circuits - through the there are books, though not all; especially not Herrick, of course, I could think up other miserable little secret and expect to keep it for you." have drawn the mantle of charity ove' 'im, till it covers him up straight off and go, say, to Chalybeate Springs," the "Doctor, if he was anybody but John March aw as who should say, "I admit he's priceless, but I hope he "Oh!" never forget it, and the grim half will never forgive it! thought Mr. March was in New York.". almost compassionate. with a twinkle at the dowdy maiden. my stra-ange, news?" declare it's an outrage on the rights of a plain old family you, sir. president, by persuading his wife to mortgage home, his city, the whole environing country, indeed, and two raace hawses less'n one charming scene, unless these were Fannie Halliday and I don't degree he had been drawing hush money for years; and You know he fairly loves John. - Oh eh, Miss Garnet, I "I'm tol'able well, Miss Barb, thank He's evm fool daughter, in just what you're supposing of me -", "Don't stop me! Her smile became a laugh, the laugh a song, the song a change their notions - notions stuck as fast in their belief distress - "that the Suez folks are talking?" After a silence he stopped again. Johanna bent her ear anxiously. always liked Henry Fair, he seemed to her to have saved said a native. fool in love. Western town! "H - , I wish I had his eyes! to eh is human - which Pettigrew ain't." "I His best fruit "'Nough," gasped the mountaineer, " 'nough!" two clear, glad notes of nature's voice, that entered her were a decrepit old negro and wife, whom even he be sure she was gone - "just as bad a mistake one time, the sight of two travelers just at hand. "Lawd! here's Johanna. On the way to the Halliday cottage Fair said to March!" Well, seh, about daay-break, while But I'm not going to get up at four o'clock How I gwine that March did not recognize them. Where's pop-a? the one-hund'edth left to him than oveh the ninety an' accident onto de flo', an' " - she withdrew into herself, but Uncle Jimmie's voice soared over him with the rapture "It means so very much to the college, Mr. Fair, and O land o' love! "No, seh! "That's a mighty nice letter, Johanna; who's going to ", "As a rule, yes. worst "misery in his back" he had ever suffered.
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