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Janey stopped short in the heat of the walk, objecting for the moment. "I wish you had not gone to London. You never used to care for the streets and the shops; now a regular good walk is too much for you," cried Janey. "With a turnip-field on one side and a potato-field on the other!" said Ursula, in high disdain. "I tell you what!" cried Janey. "I don't think I like you since you came back.
Betsy passed her as she ran up the stairs, coming from the kitchen with a letter held between two folds of her apron. Poor papa! no doubt it was some tiresome parish business to bother him, when he was tired already. But Ursula did not stop for that. How she wanted to be there again, among "them all," even though Janey still made one!
Burnam and Janey prepared so daintily. Then, at length, came the great day when the bandage was taken off, to be replaced by a shade, and only resumed for the hour when Allie was to be allowed to lead him up and down the sunny piazza, and out along the street for daily-increasing distances. For Charlie, all this was like coming back into life once more.
I think of that, the miserable wife I am for him without the beauty he loved so! I think of myself as guilty, a really guilty woman, when I compare my loss with my husband's. 'Your accident, dearest Riette how it happened? Carinthia said, enfolding her. 'Because, Janey, what have I ever been to Chillon but the good-looking thing he was proud of? It's gone. Oh, the accident.
They went themselves, and looked over half the things in the shop before they could get one to please them. They did not say, 'Janey is an unkind little thing, that will repeat all she hears about us, and does not care for us a bit. They said, 'Ursula, we must choose frocks for Janey and Amy. Come and help us to get what they will like best."
Now whatever the reason or explanation, scientifically impossible as the fact might be, it remained a fact that Janey Dove, like her mother and several of her Scottish ancestors, was foresighted, or at least so her kith and kin believed.
She forgot all about old Tozer; about the Dissenters' meeting, and the man who had made an attack upon poor Reginald. She flew to her room for her hat and jacket, and ran downstairs, singing to herself. Janey only overtook her, out of breath, as she emerged into the road from the Parsonage door. "What a dreadful hurry you are in," said Janey. "I always get ready so much quicker than you do.
The blue mist across the hills was melting into thousands of sparkling dewdrops, as the sun began to climb higher in the sky. Janey looked at the open scenery as they came to the edge of the shadowy forest. "I wish we were going to the hills to camp it's dark in there, where the pathway is so shadowed by the forest trees!" Nora read her thoughts, and put a warning finger to her lips.
"Would you believe it, I've just begun to think of Aunt Janice's side; she doesn't know us at all, yet has invited us on a long visit. I just believe she must be a sweet, brave old lady!" Janey looked up quickly from preparations "I'm sure Aunt Janice is a dear," she said pleasantly, "and I for one am going prepared to have a good time, and to try and cheer her up.
Fairfax objected to Joss in the house, lest he should bite the children, and Janey and Ranby were not entirely at her beck and call as formerly. The incompetent Sally, who sang a sweet cradle-song, became quite a personage and sovereign in the nursery, and was jealous of Miss Fairfax's intrusion into her domain.
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