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"Cecile," exclaimed her friend Frances, "why didn't you tell me you had such a genius in your midst? I'd have been out here the first one to hear the whole program. Why, she looks like an angel, and her whistling is divine. Who is she?" "Peace Greenfield," answered Cecile, almost too amazed for speech, for this was the first time she herself had ever heard the young whistler.
Now it had always been John Boynton's custom to give his school Thanksgiving-week as a vacation, to take the train on Monday for Greenfield, and stay there till Wednesday, when the whole family set off together for Coventry, to spend the next day, according to time-honored precedent.
As for Sir John, he sat at dinner and gobbled and ate and drank, smacking his lips all the while, but with hardly a word of civility either to Mr. Greenfield or to Mrs. Greenfield or to Barnaby True; but wearing all the while a dull, sullen air, as though he would say, "Your damned victuals and drink are no better than they should be, but, such as they are, I must eat 'em or eat nothing."
Greenfield lived in a fine brick house just outside of the town, on the Mona Road. His family consisted of a wife and two daughters handsome, lively young ladies with very fine, bright teeth that shone whenever they laughed, and with a-plenty to say for themselves.
The tenacious Hyde constitution, that was a proverb in Greenfield, conquered at last, and Hitty became conscious, to find herself in a chamber whose plastered walls were crumbling away with dampness and festooned with cobwebs, while the uncarpeted floor was checkered with green stains of mildew, and the very old four-post bedstead on which she lay was fringed around the rickety tester with rags of green moreen, mould-rotted.
After the loss of William Greenfield, his only brother, James Greenfield whose power in the financial world was steadily increasing had no one to intimately share his success but young Holmes, and when Willard had finished his school and chosen his profession the older man used the influence of his own position to give the young engineer every advantage.
Much better wait and have it out decently in the gymnasium. I'll go and tell him." Oliver yielded to this advice. "Look sharp, old man," he said, "that's all." Wraysford went off on his mission without delay. He found Loman in his study with his books before him. "Greenfield senior wants me to say he'll meet you after tea in the gymnasium if you'll come there," said the ambassador.
And there was the prejudice of class, the instinct that holds a man to his own peculiar people, and the argument cleverly advanced by Greenfield that the protection of The King's Basin project would be secured.
The Fifth were a good while coming round on the question of Greenfield senior. But the delay was more on account of pride than because they still considered their old class-fellow a knave.
Greenfield, who had learned the story while inquiring for business reasons into the history of his competitor, told the young man briefly of the finding of the unknown child.
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