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"It says water from a spring, in the book," he said, "but there's nothing like rain-water really for this kind of work." Soon Grizzel said she must go to her jam-making. Prudence stayed to help Hugh, and Mollie decided to hover between both fortune-building schemes, as she was too deeply interested in the results to wish to miss either.
Since the days when he had poured out to her his great fortune-building projects she had never heard him make so long a speech; and her heart, as she listened, beat with a new joy and terror. It seemed to her that the great moment of her life had come at last the moment all her minor failures and successes had been building up with blind indefatigable hands. "Elmer Elmer " she sobbed out.
Think of the Pymeuts doing their sixty miles over the ice just to apologise to Father Brachet for being Pymeuts. This other, this white man's penance might, would involve a greater mortification of the flesh. What then? The reward was proportionate "plenty of gold." The faint whisper filled the air. A little more hardship, and the long process of fortune-building is shortened to a few months.
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