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I know my rights, and I trust I shall ever be enough of a man to resent an insult to myself, and most certainly to a lady." "Do you remain long in town?" she asked. "No; only a day or two over Sunday. I shall start from the Green Dragon for home next Monday morning." "Do you have melocotoons in Rumford?" she asked, looking up to the luscious fruit, ripening above them.
The summer birds were no longer singing; the swallows had gone. The melocotoons were no longer upon the trees, neither the early pears and ripening apples; the soldiers had plucked them. Her father's face was growing grave; her mother's step less elastic. There was sorrow and desolation around her, and yet she was happy. She saw Berinthia walking up the path.
In the orchard were apples, pears, and melocotoons; in the garden, roses, pinks, primroses, daffodils, bachelor's-buttons, and asters of every hue. The morning sun streaming into the dining-room illumined the richly cut decanters upon the shelves of the buffet. Very attractive, suggestive of ease, comfort, and culture, was the library, with its books and several portraits in gilded frames.
"My cousin will not need your escort, sir," said Robert touching his elbow. The officer grew red in the face and disappeared in the barracks. On Monday morning Robert bade his friends good-by. Peter Augustus had something for him at the Green Dragon: a basket filled with fruit melocotoons, pears, and plums and a neatly written note. "Will Mr.
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