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The milking done, I sat on Uncle Eb's knee in the door-yard with all the rest of that household, hearing many tales of the wilderness, and of robbery and murder on Paradise Road. I got the impression that it was a country of unexampled wickedness and ferocity in men and animals.
An unhappy man might resolve to end his life, and might load a revolver with the intention of shooting himself; but if he should happen to see a couple of his neighbors fighting in his front door-yard, he would probably lay the revolver aside, for a time, and watch the combat.
"It was Peter's first appearance in an official capacity, and he stepped with sufficient dignity into the street, where a long line of wagons and chaises, led off by the mourners' coach and the big black hearse, waited the signal to start, while in the door-yard and along the sidewalk were ranged the foot-passengers; for at a funeral in Hilltown everybody went to the grave.
"He stood in the door-yard blowin' like Bedlam. I guess you 're late to supper." "I'll be home in a few minutes," said Patty, "I got delayed and am a little behindhand." "I'll turn right round if you'll git in and lemme take you back-along a piece; it'll save you a good five minutes," begged Cephas, abjectly.
She saw the man whom she regarded as her lover's evil genius. As he greeted her ingratiatingly: "Howdy, Miss Polly," she replied sharply: "You ain't got no invite to this weddin'." "I come with my friend Bud," he explained, with an elaborate bow. "I didn't see you, Bud," answered Polly slightly mollified, as she crossed the door-yard to shake hands with her sweetheart.
"I didn't know Inez had got religious," he said, when Judith finished. "She hasn't. She doesn't believe anything except that beauty is right and ugliness is wrong." "Then she'd better clean up her door-yard!" exclaimed Douglas. "O darn it!" sighed Judith. "I can't even discuss poetry with you without your heaving a brick." "I'm not heaving bricks. O Judith, I'm so devilishly unhappy!"
Like a captive bird which, after many fruitless struggles, finally regains its liberty, Nanna quickly made use of her restored freedom, and hastened from the door-yard. She was fully convinced that the young man was no longer in the meadow, and now she suddenly remembered that she had said nothing to her father or Magde about the stranger whom she had encountered the previous evening.
He goes out on the porch; is it possible that is the garden? why it is no larger than a table-cloth! he should have thought the beds he had so often weeded could not be so small: and the door-yard, one can shake hands across it!
All April long the door-yard trees crouch and shudder in the sour east, all June they rain canker-worms upon the roof, and then in autumn choke the eaves with a fall of tattered and hectic foliage. From the window the fading sisters gaze upon the unnatural liveliness of the summer streets through which the summer boarders are driving, or upon the death-white drifts of the intolerable winter.
As he drove into the door-yard, Arthur came out of the house, trembling and pale with anger and excitement. "Hello, Arthur?" called Checkers, cheerily. "Traitor, hypocrite," was the answer; "how can you look me in the face?" "Oh, get used to it." "Ha! you make a jest of it, do you?" "Of what, your face?" Arthur grew livid.
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