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"He knows his mistress, Margaret and he's yours." "Oh, no, Chad." "Yes," said Chad, "I've still got Dixie." "Do you still call her Dixie?" "All through the war." Homeward they went through the dewy fields. "I wish I could have seen the Major before he died. If he could only have known how I suffered at causing him so much sorrow. And if you could have known." "He did know and so did I later.
It would hurt her to go unmilked, so Chad put his things down and took up a cedar piggin from a shelf outside the cabin and did the task thoroughly putting the strippings in a cup and, so strong was the habit in him, hurrying with both to the rude spring-house and setting them in cool running water.
"I seed I saw you on Sunday, too." "Did you know me?" "I reckon I did. And that wasn't the fust time." Margaret's eyes were opening with surprise. "I been goin' to church ever' Sunday fer nothin' else but just to see you." Again his tone gave her vague alarm, but she asked: "Why didn't you speak to me?" They were nearing the turnstile across the campus now, and Chad did not answer.
Stay with her at least till she has." "And leave her THEN?" Chad had kept smiling, but its effect in Strether was a shade of dryness. "Don't leave her BEFORE. When you've got all that can be got I don't say," he added a trifle grimly. "That will be the proper time. But as, for you, from such a woman, there will always be something to be got, my remark's not a wrong to her."
"I wonder if I can't git somethin' to eat in that store." The Major laughed: "You ain't gettin' hungry so soon, are you? You must have eaten breakfast pretty early." "I ain't had no breakfast an' I didn't hev no supper last night." "What?" shouted the Major. Chad stated the fact with brave unconcern, but his lip quivered slightly he was weak.
If any of those are in the secret, be it your mission to find out and bring it home to them." "If Brother Emmanuel is found, Chad will be forfeit." Such was the burden of Edred's thoughts as he rode homeward at his brothers' side, just behind their father and mother, at the close of that eventful day's proceedings.
Many a picturesque old wooden bridge, many a foaming weir and ruinous water-mill with weedy wheel, may be found scattered up and down the wooded banks of this little river Chad; while to the brook, which we call the Gipstream, attaches a vague tradition of trout. The hamlet itself is clean and old-fashioned, consisting of one long, straggling street, and a few tributary lanes and passages.
Chad shook his head, and the old man straightened himself a bit. "I'se sorry to heah it, suh," he said, with dignity, and he turned to his work. Miss Lucy was not feeling well that morning and did not come down to breakfast. The boy was so pale and haggard that the Major looked at him anxiously. "What's the matter with you, Chad? Are you ?" "I didn't sleep very well last night, Major."
What was clearer still was that the handsome young man at her side was Chad Newsome, and what was clearest of all was that she was therefore Mademoiselle de Vionnet, that she was unmistakeably pretty bright gentle shy happy wonderful and that Chad now, with a consummate calculation of effect, was about to present her to his old friend's vision.
Harry and Dan were threatened with the measles, she said, and would say no more. When they went through the fields toward the school-house, Chad stalked ahead as he had done in the mountains with Melissa, and, looking back, he saw that Margaret had stopped. He waited for her to come up, and she looked at him for a moment as though displeased.
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