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My mother fell grievously on a slide, which John Fry had made nigh the apple-room door, and hidden with straw from the stable, to cover his own great idleness. My father laid John's nose on the ice, and kept him warm in spite of it; but it was too late for Eliza. She was born next day with more mind than body the worst thing that can befall a man.
Betty, when her memory was thus racked, put her hand to her forehead, and recollected that in the apple-room there was a heap of old books. Harry possessed himself of the key of the apple-room, tossed over the heap of tattered mouldy books, and at last found the precious volume. He devoured it eagerly nor was it forgotten as soon as finished.
"I cannot let you stay here," I said; "it is altogether impossible. Do you suppose that I can fight, with you among the bullets, Lorna? If this is the way you mean to take it, we had better go both to the apple-room, and lock ourselves in, and hide under the tiles, and let them burn all the rest of the premises." At this idea Lorna laughed, as I could see by the moonlight; and then she said,
All the cellars were dark at this hour of the afternoon, very dark, and Bessie held Eyebright's hand tight, as, with the ease of one who knew the way perfectly, she sped toward the apple-room.
So he sat down at his cupboard and forgot the lecture instantly; the pout disappeared from his lips as he plunged his hand into the inexhaustible cupboard. "Bevis, dear," he heard presently, "you may have an apple." Instantly, and without staying to shut the door on his treasures, he darted upstairs up two flights, with a clatter and a bang, burst open the door, and was in the apple-room.
The men were chopping wood, sending wheat to the mill to be ground before the road should become impassable for a cart and horse. My cousin and Phillis had gone up-stairs to the apple-room to cover up the fruit from the frost. I had been out the greater part of the morning, and came in about an hour before dinner.
One afternoon, when he was helping Noémi to carry a full basket to the apple-room, he saw strangers arrive at the cottage: the fruit-buyers had come, the first visitors for many months past, bringing tidings from the outer world. They negotiated about the fruit with Therese the usual system of barter.
We shall have no wood." "There is the sun." "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more meat." "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." "What shall we have for dinner?" "Bread." "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread." "That is well." "What will you eat?" "We have apples in the apple-room."
I got my fingers awfully stained too. It didn't come off for almost a month. Aren't they good?" "Perfectly splendid!" replied Bessie, as her teeth met in the spicy acid oval. "I do think butternut pickles are just too lovely!" The apple-room had a small window in it, so it was not so dark as the other cellars. Eyebright went straight to a particular barrel.
Opportunity to impart it occurred sooner than he expected, for Joan's box had just arrived. During dinner the old man explained that his niece was to be a visitor at Drift for a term of uncertain duration; and after the meal, when Joan disappeared to unpack her box and make tidy a little apple-room, which was now empty and at her service, Uncle Chirgwin had speech with Mary.
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