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He only got out these messages very slowly, and after intervals of silence broken by groans. "Wait! one thing more," he said, as Barton stooped to take him in his arms. "I may faint from pain. My address is, Paterson's Kents, hard by; my name is Winter." Then, after a pause, "I can pay for a private room at the infirmary, and I must have one.
Instead it shewed the candid face of a real homesickness, and it spoke with convincing and abominably aggravating plainness of Long Barton. The little hooded diligence was waiting in the hot white dust outside the station. "But yes. It is I who transport all the guests of Madame Chevillon," said the smiling brown-haired bonnetless woman who held the reins. Betty climbed up beside her.
It was in very truth to all The White Flower of Happiness. There had been a great discussion in the High School all the week, and as Friday drew nearer the excitement grew more and more intense. For Barton High School had many girls from the Hill section of the town where the mill owners lived, and also many girls from the River section where the mill workers lived.
"Bedad, I suppose there's no use in sending an apology when friends is so pressing," said he, buttoning his coat as coolly as possible; "but I hope you 'll let the master come in to see me." "Mr. Burke shall be admitted at all times," said Barton, with an obsequious civility I had never witnessed in him previously.
Presently, one, more enterprising than the rest, ventured so far as to reach out her hand, and touch Barton on the cheek, when, finding that no disastrous consequences immediately followed this act of temerity, they gradually laid aside their apprehensions, and pressing around us, soon became sufficiently familiar to try a variety of highly original and interesting experiments upon our complexion and clothing.
Half an hour later the Doctor came from the sick room, went out, jumped into the cage and mounted to the globe. He returned in a few moments and said: "I have here medicine, Mr. Barton, that is certain to do your wife a great amount of good. And I am quite positive that it will work a perfect cure.
It would break mother's heart if she knew what I am now it did break Mary's heart, you see. And now I recollect it was about her child I wanted to see you, Jem. You know Mary Barton, don't you?" said she, trying to collect her thoughts. Yes, Jem knew her. How well, his beating heart could testify. "Well, there's something to do for her; I forget what; wait a minute!
Barton remembered having seen a man leave his car at Ridgecrest, the next stop before Sloanehurst, at twenty-five minutes past ten last night. He answered Russell's description, had seemed greatly agitated, and was unfamiliar with the stops on the line, having questioned Barton as to the distance between Ridgecrest and Sloanehurst. That was all the conductor had to tell. "Mrs.
Isaac, Green all of ye and you over there! I got something to say, and I don't want ye to miss a word of it! You, too, Mr. Feilding, and that lady next ye and everybody else that kin hear! "That's my son, Barton Holt, lyin' there dead! The one I druv out o' here nigh twenty year ago. It warn't for playin' cards, but on account of a woman; and there she stands Lucy Cobden!
But they coaxed. And somehow, the old home had changed already. The air of brisk cheerfulness was gone. Aunt Crete had her face tied up most of the time, or a little shawl over her head. Retty was undeniably careless. Barton Finch played cards with the hired man. Uncle Faid had some queer ideas about farming. "I'd like wonderful well to have the boys stay," he said. "They're worth their keep.
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