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I don't know what makes you so forward with men. Your mother and aunt never gave me the slightest trouble in that way." She pushed me from her in anger, and I turned and strode housewards without a word or glancing behind. I could hear grannie deprecating my conduct as I departed, and Harold quietly and decidedly differing from her.
For as Miss Liz had come across the lawn to join them half an hour earlier, this refreshment was hurried out of sight the Colonel's resolution of independence notwithstanding and now, before the ice could entirely melt, Brent, by a polite tirade against the prim old lady's pet hobby, trusted her increasing wrath to clarify the situation by routing her housewards.
Laura threw herself backwards a moment, as the cart began to move, and kissed her hand. Mrs. Mason made no sign. She watched the cart, slowly picking its way over the rough ground of the farm-yard, till it turned the corner of the big barn and disappeared in the gusty darkness. Then she turned housewards.
I stretched out my hand and stained my fingers, next my lips and teeth, with the sweet dark fruit of a mulberry-tree beside me. The shadows deepened; I picked up my saddle, and, carrying it housewards, put it in its place in the harness-room among the fig- and apricot-trees laden to breaking point with ripe and ripening fruit.
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