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Updated: May 20, 2025
I wrote a story, Jamie, a story of our lives, weaving in few fancies of my own and leaving you unchanged, the little counsellor and good angel of the ambitious man's hard life. I painted no fictitious sorrows. What I had seen and keenly felt I could truly tell, your cheerful patience, Bess's faithful love, my struggles, hopes, and fears.
"Yes, of course," he answered, surprisedly, with his eyes open wide, "Bess's foal! of course it is." "There you are!" said Dad, grinning triumphantly. Donovan seemed uneasy. Joe in his turn appeared. Dad put the same question to him. Of course Joe knew Bess's foal "the one that got stole." There was a silence. "Now," said Dad, looking very grave, "what have y' got t' say? Who'd y' get him off?
"The Grange is nearly three miles nearer than the Towers," she said; "had not we better bring her there? And had not Guy better ride off at once to Nortonbury for the doctor?" "That is a good idea," said Mr. Lorrimer. "Guy, mount on Black Bess's back and off with you. Bring Dr. Jervis back with you to the Grange if you can."
Here was the simplicity, the sweetness of a girl contending with new and strange and enthralling emotions here the living truth of innocence; here the blind terror of a woman confronted with the thought of death to her savior and protector. All this Venters saw, but, besides, there was in Bess's eyes a slow-dawning consciousness that seemed about to break out in glorious radiance.
Fopling's weakness was not of the legs he being a very Mercury, with feet as fleet as his wits were slow Dorothy and Bess had no more than finished giving and receiving congratulations, i. e., kisses, when Richard appeared and took Bess's labor of congratulation off her hands or should one say her lips?
"And most of all," said Bess to Richard warningly, "you are not to involve yourself with Storri. Remember, should you and he have differences upon which the gossips can take hold, there will be a perfect scandal, and Dorothy the central figure." Richard was horrified at Bess's picture. "And so," concluded Bess, "you must do exactly as Dorothy requests.
Matthew will drive us out as soon as we can get ready," Bess had said the night before, as she sank on my bed and spread out with fatigue. The next morning it took Annette until ten o'clock and a shower of tears to get Bess and me to sit up and take our coffee. She said the decorators were downstairs beginning on Bess's wedding decorations and that the sun was shining on my wedding-day.
"Don't blame yourself too much. Everybody has to go some time, you know, and they say drowning's easy." With a stifled cry Aunt Jane forsook Mr. Tubbs and flew to the rail. I was already out of reach. "Oh, Virginia!" she wailed. "Oh, my dear child! If it should be the last parting!" "Give my jewelry and things to Bess's baby!" I found strength to call back.
Since Cabrillo was foiled in landing at Mendocino in 1543, the first royal flag floating over this "No Man's Land" was Good Queen Bess's standard, set up in 1579 by dashing Sir Francis Drake. He landed from the Golden Hind. In 1602 the Spanish ensign floated on December 10 at Monterey; in 1822 the third national ensign was unfurled, the beloved Mexican eagle-bearing banner.
And as far as the state of his mind was concerned, upon the second day after his return, the valley, with its golden hues and purple shades, the speaking west wind and the cool, silent night, and Bess's watching eyes with their wonderful light, so wrought upon Venters that he might never have left them at all. That very afternoon he set to work.
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