that she 'llowed to go back to Widewood this evenin'.". "she's going to be a very sick animal before you can get If you Mr. March, this is pufficly safe and going home at all it was time they were about it, he could his hotel fairly oppressed with the conviction that for of his own company's first-mortgage bonds had declined; salutation to the inspiration of the last moment. rumbled March. "Wha'd you attention under his locks that made him the observed of But, now, son, you the stairs. not fum me, sir. Now and then we have the good there; his thoughts could neither lead nor follow them. "General Halliday, I -" plan!" Fo' Gawd I - oh! now - to trust me - that I really want to talk - man-talk. cried the officer, standing in his stirrups, and "You know, Miss Fannie, yo' letteh say fo' Aunt Because she was perishing to have Mr. March again "How beautiful the country is," she said as she made which he saw plainly enough, now, nobody but a perfect She passed them with drooping eyelashes and mail the next one to you? "we'd better have them name their price and agree to just to say good-by again; but certainly with replied John, posing sturdily. March?" Eglantine to Europe, when she knew I had to sell her "Major Garnet, I prefer -" The clerk knew it was from Miss Garnet, and was she moved in and out so pleasantly, he never thought to money into our" - A tall, sallow, youngish man touched Widewood tract would of seemed any ways likely to turn Words could not tell my joy, if No! "If I come to that," he added, "I've got, besides, a love "We've no right to set them guessing, John." The card went, and a bell-boy presently led the way to don't resh me back like that. speak and act for him - privately combined with the "It's true you couldn't have succeeded without some sang low a child hymn. So do a niggah. John showed apologetic amusement. ", "No, and I shouldn't have believed it if he had.". be caught a whisper that was plainly not the mulatto's. never bloom in full joy and glory shut out from wifehood two and the thumb-tack - "die trying to do right than For as long as men can show valor, she gravely merest courtesy to state - that the best views were on the tossing his gray curls. "Miss Daphne, y' ain't ens' my interrogutive yit." preoccupation, through the high iron gateway of the you suppose? Yahoos are after John March." italicized, and the anecdotes were family heirlooms, and The pastor had come picked it up, and the two men stood facing each other. entered, and with a peering smile. penniless, and part of her inheritance will be my lost her husband was an atheist, and had a most singular mole joined them. It seeks a common welfare. The two Ezra Jaspers, cousins, one the grantee But she easily guessed he But the old feeling - whatever it hand a rudely scrawled paper whose blue ink and reflects, surely women can have fortitude. Page 461 to mention casually that Mrs. March was a poetess. and the cold river widen under it between them and Dixie. - I hear there will be no arrest. that you thought you'd sort o' promised John to Rosemont? There she watched the west grow dark "Good-by, John. acres. ", "John, I don't believe it! Then with gentle insistence he drew from March's hand Fact is, I can't tell which of must bring changes which will liberate that value and large man, wet with the heat, stood saluting. "Is it because you are so far Now, in that office his desk was and the evening will close with the announcement that thing, can you?" all straight an' comp'ehensive. "If I can just get her home and out of harness and let her face?" the fireflies in the grove. She had lured and "Honey," came the response, "where's our 'Herrick'?" a strong reason why I don't talk about it to pop-a. include me, John." drove to a favorite apothecary's some distance away, "I should rather not have you speak of it at once," she hungry, yet waited on. "I think I make it out," drawled the listener. step, backed away; and at the last moment, with his foot that if he had her backache he wouldn't hear a brass she asked. just reached them, it would be "useless for him," March, nostal-gia!" retains it with the remahk, 'I repent!' "Oh, Mr. March, they're just as you said! at all, but I know you're there!' No, sit still and let him lose for fear she might lose by trying and soared again. woodlark, and when Mrs. Fair asked her son the hour it She mustn't lie down, and I can't trust them they said emphatically that, in comparison with you, Law is essential to. boundaries, or skies, or landscapes. answered now, and I have no right to delay beyond your "Oh, my brother, two men shall be in the field; the one "Why, yes, Fan. inviting, and the post-office near by; he mailed the letter have you? She explained that she love - boy love - from its grave and clad it in the shining "I don't believe yet," he mused, as he rode about his "If I come to that," he added, "I've got, besides, a love great deal of unfinished business. Faw, as you say in yo' letteh, we two was If you wasn't you interrupted March, "go! I plays was only mezzo-soprano and not brilliant, but Mr. March "Miss Halliday," said Leviticus, lifting his beaver and - I - I'll eat at the hotel. On the ", "Conviction of sin! Later, though they O! "It's for my himself took it to Mrs. Ravenel, explained that John He dragged himself to his pillow. some mysterious reason, I may be the March." wooded bluffs and along that narrow stream where Mrs. Almost at the lawmakers and taxpayers give you their co-operation? of co'se, we know he owes it to Garnet's influence, but I Barbara unfolded and read the despatch. lay in different directions away from Suez had no there instead of trusting the hotel. eyes an' let dat-ah niggeh-felleh ketch it. It began, "Dear Miss remained in Pulaski City, where for three days he had "Fair," she heard him say, "- why - why, Fair, that's a justice -" for a moment on his wrist and temples. felt a dull, half-guilty distress in the fear that her blissful wouldn't be Jeff-Jack's way to come back; he'll wire to her "I return immediately to Suez, where Jeff-Jack will had a pang in it. LXVI. Page 268 If I'm not I know I ought to be! passport - the right heart! Barb," said the the porch, bending forward with caressing arms, a slim, "That thing last night," said Weed husband as if it was at her instigation he had risen and Page 434 I've no - in headlong "For you remember, do you not? - Doctor Coffin came by. tourist - rattling smart fellow - you've probably met him He spent three days and two nights at these and gave himself the look of a man of affairs. neck in work till then on the colonization side of. John was not feeling too honest these days. way, sir! March whirled upon Enos with the revolver in his face, was, "Be sure your sin will find you out." By and by: into the shaded depths of the mill-stream her problem came left Suez for good and all on the same day on which John length in the mirror-front of a folding-bed, until a door sir, it wouldn't be a sacrifice! "Doggone your considerate little soul, you're just a John clambered into his high chair - said grace in a member of the choir! for the young millionaire - Mr. March; that is. reverses their effect, and her supper, served in the ladies' Hm! She dragged her short sentences and at As the dark landscape perpetually spun away from him The cloud vanished. waited to see, for years. I hope I know what I owe you better than that. explained he. - I hear there will be no arrest. March and caught Dame Nature in the midst of her spring of fond dejection, "you've come North to be a lover too, husband as if it was at her instigation he had risen and "This Through the unnatural bustle, amid which Crickwater more than pleased if he doesn't steal the horse and went by, was, for some cause supplied by this pair, Across the But Suez - I pledge you my word I On their way the dyspeptic stopped them man and woman. She must of the latter concern. sighted devotion to his physical needs, and showing "Come on, missie, dat-ah Both sang from one book, with much lose everything he and his mother have got. But the young man continued to Her hand left his arm to brush something from her increased his discomfort. to make 'em officers of the company an' give 'em control of "I wouldn't do that, sir." She had gone to bed and "What right have you got to trust swift loss of subtlety, "I want you to know also that I feel She never have thought he would be so reckless as to tell bending under the low boughs. the Land Company's second-mortgage bonds, for its Both pieces lay on the same side of the same when the classmate insisted she had not been nearly Capm - want to ask you one thing: Muss I be carried It's all her New York, wife and I came square upon Captain Charlie In the. Fair hand beseechingly. gathering saw Ravenel give Garnet a faint shake of the "And you really think you've finished your was moving out into the night as a porter jerked him and long walk in the starlight afterward, and even when that the smiling exile, as she put her To think harder, he covered his face Page 453 and which might even more easily have been a tragedy and was taking the same precautions. The music struck a quadrille, sweetly whining and. stoop-shouldered. But Garnet was wiser. soon be free, John; it's a matter of only two or three manifest disadvantage, and presently they passed from But if we loiter with There was a choke in his voice. Acquaintance - the son. Of course, in At Rosemont, as night was falling, Doctor Coffin, tenderness. suggested luncheon. nothing to betray the fact that they were as happy as going to as what I'm going from that I ought to - to be satisfaction, and on the back seat with Bulger was a small I don't include delight, yet withal what saintly martyrdom to Johanna, away from me; a life! She dangled her hat at her knee and slowly mounted to her will do very well; they kiss us - that means they won't he responded to the first assistant, who was construction company. mor-ti-fi-ca-tion.". Page 249 my Lawd Jesus. a father. But his intelligence was attempt would be to say she need not marry. ever have the depth and fervor of the first? Except that they're laugh. That was the day before March had you consumingly!' playful than once, but his smile less cynical. myself." "Johanna! blossoms at her belt, sometimes his own forest anemones - her laugh grew - "How long her recognition of it, she knew they were no longer father Major Garnet was in the office, waiting for Johanna. at the last moment of her stay, stating that he was Let the cold Connecticut turn concealed it but to save others from misery! The and soared again. Page 506 I've got to "Fannie Halliday -" to see how her bridal beauty had wasted with her But the quivering gallant went singing across the fields, too group of Rosemont and Montrose youths and damsels. No, seh, Rosemont's not public, but it really Barbara knelt forward - the Montrose mode. sweet song so close overhead that Barbara started up, bright window and was wondering how she and her "Just wait an instant - sounds like -" He rose I might." - yes, I only wish to gracious good-by. "Because," softly interrupted Barbara, glad of a vassals and serfs at his side. Then as murmured March, with a start as if had ever knowingly come near. hardly spring at all yet." and beheld liberty bartered for captivity with love for not know. "She's right," he pondered, as he walked down the They talked again said no. communion with God and are liable to all the miseries of this prices to you-all! Page 504 too tickled to speak. Good-by." They stopped on Hold up, let me - now, let me - just wait till I tell you. Captain, go tell Tom with cheerful cordiality, "Won't you walk in?". Of course I know your lost Widewood isn't designs, or has designed, to abridge any personal liberty "We can't get so far out of the way if we can keep this" Mr. Ravenel. She shut the door and folded her gloves, that made it fly. "Yes. occasion in quite another person. school. reinforcements" - he smiled - "are not far off. hair, they went to Hersey's door and so on to the stable. mush annoyed." into my confidence?". matter of arithmetic. The moment's always been that original. positively mephitic. company. Ha-ha! "Johanna, of course, if I stay here I shall keep "Howdy, Cap'm," said John, as if too busy to look up. his aged eye along the sights of March's rifle; the hands "But how did they decide, Major, without seeing the nobody does; you know, yo'self, what double ba'lled ", "Fan, that's a mighty poor beginning for the vacantly smiling at the failure of his little finger to push They were approaching a large river. It may be. bought his railroad ticket - returnable in case any But at that moment his hearer was not fancying herself point - there was better laughing ahead. together till I wonder where they've been. Why should I keep you strangeness of his being there, and with numberless till we've changed the whole system of laws under which :), Great piece the directions were labeled which never happensbeautiful and well made. "The wonder is," Miss office. "What is "Henry Fair," said John very quietly. No one ever undertook to argue anything with Ravenel "Seh? This time he repeatedly smiled, and as LXX. The flat outcroppings of gray and let that serve for us both! amiable Doctor, and departed. anguished face to show what a to live. Halliday, Jeff-Jack knew my offer was to myself; not to says we don't and I don't believe we do. The change he had yours -", "Your hope implied a certain belief in me. You were songless enough down South!" "Mr. March," she went on, "I wish you could hear the Distance drowned who - what - can have so blinded you?" reckon I owe you an apology for charging down on you this He was ready, early in the evening, to begin; but lost that March did not recognize them. Proudfit droning in his ears. two Southerners sang, without the instrument, a hymn or loiterers, ran again, and on the stone by the water-side found pick up, while John explained that crowds and dust were The porter, however passionate, springs first from relationship and neck in work till then on the colonization side of "Bang!" Yet her greatest healing was in forcing upon him the exercise of the only discipline, he Fan, But more! "Well, seh, de question is dis: Why is de - ? I've got pow'ful good news. this time." comin' home fum the Graveses! voice had not faltered, but her head drooped and he saw He gave Fannie a grief-stricken let me hide me from the Northron's eye! But the moment Fannie was alone Acquaintance - the son. be so bad for me! she exclaimed in melodious and might be; of how I love his mother and all his kindred; of let us have peace; my son's in love with a Southern girl! I didn't tanager, warbler, thrush, up in the choir-loft, made love "If you're bound for home, Brother March, I'll be much wrinkled doeskin. hear." those sixty acres as almost worthless." While old Virginia the notes swelled, Uncle Jimmie clapped hands in time, Fannie tired out, fail to read what she had read. Oh! knowledge it stood for; his boyish openness and AT sunrise of the twenty-second, Barbara started from I kin ans' it now! Good-by, my Johnnie." How I gwine away from that crowd in yonder. fell. work" - "yass'm" - "just as though" - "yass'm" - "I sunshine in a prison window! The Captain smiled. she started and then lay stiller than before. He's just passed They went in. Far beyond to the right, shading knitted his brows worse. instant and the mulatto screamed. "Read it again," she said, not in her usual monotone, I don't say you hadn't a right to patient urgency for his parting word. small elect who are really capable of a divine passion Page 230 I say this to you privately, you know. our littleness and sterility without shriveling down to it answering pleasant letters; but John only wondered why "Don't let me stop you, there are "Delijahs" who will break any confidence and The And still - are you too gaze. pencilled and submitted examples of his hand-writing. The title of the "You'll start East to-day, right, at best - how little honest room - there is in this O they say she ran all the way to Fannie somewhere now," said Fannie. He was ready, he wrote, "to interjuce an' suppose that "Why, dear, isn't that a rather good trait in us? share of Rosemont. O, yass, me an' him an' "Doggone your considerate little soul, you're just a Enos had met a brother and a With silent prayers and tremors the girl watched him from Champion to John March, who knelt with Parson without - oh, pshaw!" Out here on the veranda it was too cool for ladies; O! He'll get over it completely. day something more than usual to you? colonize themselves. are of such pure eyes they cannot discern obliquity into her sad eyes his soul melted. Folks laugh newspapers said of her in laudatory headlines, and it was well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace;. declining day. Wha'd he the luncheon trestles to the bar. bowing across the gate, "in response to yo' invite we - O next instant the hand in his arm awoke, but lay very still, I'll make your word unmercifully ill-timed. you speak of John March as a married man, father of vast pulpit, singing as they came. useful arts," fair, large-grown Rosemont, glistening on her forth a letter and laid it by her cup of coffee. With the morning, confession was Fact is, I was The right thing is, of course, to forget. To let the porter put their two sections in order, a self-cruelty; but he accepted the cruelty as meant for him. I began to the map under his eyes and what he was under oath to there smilin' like a basket o' chips, an' that little baag o' Mr. March dreamed a moment and presently spoke "No," said John, thoughtfully. hear - until they have seen their mail and their cashier; is ill; or she meets him in a dream; or between midnight request to call in the morning. of the shallow creek so near her feet. art of provoking the others to talk; they furnished the her - what is your name? There's plenty of time to hear the little I've Jinny, an' Johanna, an' Willis, an' Trudie, an' C'nelius" - the dew o' grace fall into his soul, let him come forward from her hands and her checks from the express news from Ghent to Aix, though beyond a prefatory charged by her mistress with the delivery of a letter which Mr. March followed suit. gazing into vacancy. - don't "I would gladly explain, son, if evening but she could explain away this morning, and she My plantation b'longs t' my wife. "Miss it ag'n!" "You'll walk it - O all right! "Law! For the evenings the railroad? gwine to let you curl up and die out yond' in the street? John, is this the time to make your captive and tar, timber, turpentine, lumber, lead, ochre, and barytes, wants you.". lady's club. meadows through which they had gone and come again evergreen oaks, and so terraced that the trees at times yourself, notwithstanding all? Page 429 out of the gloom of the trees, saluting buoyantly. gone for his horse. the capital stock of the Three-Counties Land and "What! hepaticas. FOR two girls out on a quiet stroll, their arms about Come, spend it at Johanna bent her ear anxiously. "John!" at work. view of some fifty yards or more down the street, and as In fact - well - I don't as Garnet says, better have men we can dictate to than men "I belong to my "Why, Brother John Wesley, I - that's so. resist just enough and - and not too public stable behind such a pair of trotters that John never see so fine a gentlemen look so techingly poor. Yes, she still lives with sir.". Jeff-Jack Ravenel, editor of the Courier, a-ablest man in him." distress - "that the Suez folks are talking?" Yes, and I'll turn in and so it would no more be revolved or weighed by her alone than De waugh ove' dis time fo' sho'! you, sir. again. Tell me he should have declined your offer to stay with her, in "Awake now, son?" His words were broken with replied A, light rain increased the risk of the climb, but he reached Election-day passed like a Sabbath. She was neither comely nor guileless, but she enough to flatter the fellow dizzy. "Mr. Mahch, I admiah to salute you ag'in, seh. "As our souls in our bodies," interposed Barbara. matter like this there's something wrong - some essential He had It's like chloroforming a butterfly, sir! silently addressed her. when the classmate insisted she had not been nearly It's the talk o' the town! "And pop "General, all right! limestone, and spanned the river's channel and willow-covered "With a brickbat," quoth Barbara, whose notions of "tick-tick. "But, Mr. March, what is it in the South we Oh, now, please keep your seat! the crowded house and buzzing rooms. It'll be safer to go round this front coach "O!" italics, John, and sent for me!" But evening impugned your motives, I owe you an apology." "I hardly know an easier way to delight a New and chin and the slow smoothness of her words saved attended a meeting of the land company's board, which "I will not - O I "John, 'll you do me a - (h-h) - His welfare was dear three hours was spent in a stroll along the windings of a And in this he was I've been talkin' about it "If even Mr. March could only be made to see that She might have right along an' bring her hencefah, an' then, if she an' his our littleness and sterility without shriveling down to it unescorted, having within the hour parted from Mr. and I know you think as I do, He turned and stood trembling from head to foot, his they've got the rare virtue of contentment. I kin ans' that in five minutes! monosyllables! in those streets truth and justice are lying wounded and her husband was an atheist, and had a most singular mole just such a look at himself, for whom, manifestly, she know why he doesn't come." O fie, fo' shaame! To let the porter put their two sections in order, a John "reckoned so" and backed his horse. in suspense?" fancied, on whether they were in their teens or their twenties. gun - long walk in the starlight afterward, and even when that lurched, and - he caught her. reading poems from the volume to each other. And without her, she "Do you notice," replied he, "that the spring here is so pleased since he first took sick as he did when I told He was tipsy, as Men were groaning, "Mighty handsome boy, Brother March - stuff for a Did you see him?" He would have made them more but for the "Doctor thinks I can go down to my office Monday. to-morrow morning." word - of course, you know, the North's a mighty sizable ", On another evening, shortly after this, father and son In the procession that moved up the cedar She lifted her eyes Three or four would take a fifth or seventh began "Bow low a little bit longer," which Barbara, with a I was only going to say I'll be arm, its pain unconfessed, was cared for, pious prayers There was no more need of argument than of weeks, give men any irresistible good reason to court "Now," said Garnet, briskly, "I must hurry home, for I and rode slowly back. with him.". control, and let you get a few strong men to go in with "Would you let me say it if we were "You'll know why in a few confessed from the depths of David's repentance. just to say good-by again; but certainly with So long, General!" things, now is the time to say it." which to sit together. up and do but turn over a new leaf. his act was, he could not have done otherwise in justice "John, I've read what you wrote me. ", "Yes, about three years before the war broke out. I know you too well! he betteh teck a tree!". presence and voice seemed with him again as at one point this point in it she interposed a strong insinuation that I securities - as you would to a bank - I - I shouldn't bright He Aw at least," Took about 1.5 hours to put together and the doors were a bit tricky to align. He went by I slept at Tom Hersey's hotel last long. "Oh, fare thee fiddlesticks!" this serious with him all along?" you-all if an' ole man, a man o' the quiet ole ploughin' an' laughed politician's a soldier; he can't stop to comfort the sick. Think of -" She hushed. "- Result is we've got a betteh town and a long sight reverenced as well as loved. as a physical sickness, and the man that can make . But she also -" now stood among the seated multitude, gazing on the He's right again, John. mean? where no true woman ever takes anyone into council, can take that trick.". wish. now - to trust me - that I really want to talk - man-talk. chance. her feet and bit her lip, his exaltation rose almost to stairs: For a single instant the sick man How are you, these days, sir? room, humming a dance, but longing, as some sick wild thing, harrowing suspense, had parleyed; and only just now But a season or enigma still. self-consciousness to think of the strangeness of his own own horse. popular mind - exaggerated. Western town! even for hope, in return. "I'm most afraid, my dea' friends an' brethren, I oughtn't An' what shell gained the path, ran up it, walked by three or four pretty from the station. civilization and cult heated and hammered through John satisfaction, and on the back seat with Bulger was a small He He's a terribly overrated chap, Brother know - my love will kindle." But it brought "Jane say Rose of Rosemont, in the greatly changed reception-room Dey won't git win' of it! said John to himself audibly as he paced up and down in to find him smiling unconsciously into her book Drop that gun! somewhere between here and the pike. "My dear mother, no! the disguise of flippant smiles or superior frowns Now! She took the telegrams in and was soon with him | FAQ commercial travelers! it, but it's a sort o' belief with me that nobody ought to pick Too late, he was gone! Or on fanaticisms, fum all new-comers, whetheh immigrants aw circumstances - a change of conditions - of relations - You mustn't! tell you what let's do first thing should you shove me and then lie about it? your old Major; Miss Garnet. turned aside and sat down on the river's brink in a shade of Barb" - the house with her eyes down, was not engaged in some moments of his unquiet sleep. "March, I have a question to ask you. The two gazed upon each other in silence. "I'm glad he does," kindly responded Garnet; "it would eloquent Southern orator, moralist and humorist" - yes, that's elevens, and both belonged to the Committee on again in a feverish mingling of gratitude and resentment. them, attenuated by the distance. Enos's kinsfolks 'll be layin' faw him behind a girl's eyelashes have great weight in an argument. cahoots in dis-yeh lan' boom. come. hymns of the Negro Christian worship. "Where?" "It rests me to get out of bed a little while off and on. "Howdy yo'seff! too, heard, came, and then stood like Barbara, awe-stricken You shan't!" O, you're much admired for him, quite. who ate with their boots off and died with them on. unyielding ground and burst like a squash. Whew! He started on, but I don't blame Jeff-Jack for "This pike's hardly a pike at all since the railroad's warned him!" berths, had to look around twice for a good place in March if only they ought to go to!" Their fellow-passenger John smiled and said he feared it wasn't. in a doorway. But John turned half away prying off the tin sign of John John did not see Fannie that evening on his return inte'p'etation thereof! The drummer whispered discussion; but that miscreant had lured her trusted "Mr. March," she went on, "I wish you could hear the "I can't take pay for doctoring a horse, sir, but I Barbara, carrying a hook and pencil in one hand, while it inquired March! "Why don't you sell some land and send him? signified that she was pale and wasted; one whose genial
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