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He ran out again as fast as he could to set the gate open. Mrs. Fairchild and the little girls met their visitors at the door. Bessy jumped out of the carriage, and without waiting for the names to be spoken, gave her hands to Lucy and Emily. She kissed Lucy, and would have kissed Emily if she had not got behind Mrs. Fairchild.
The man seized the old woman's chair and shuffled with his feet as though he were about to lift it. Nelly screamed. Bessy uttered a howl of indignation, and rushed upon the foe with teeth and nails ready, but being arrested by a powerful man in the rear, she vented her wrath in a hideous yell. The success of the scheme was great much greater, indeed, than had been anticipated.
A girl in white was with him, and Anderson thought at first glance that she was Charlotte Carroll, as a matter of course he had so accustomed himself to think of the two in union by this time. Then he looked again and saw that the girl was much larger and fair-haired, and recognized her as Bessy Van Dorn, William Van Dorn's daughter.
Langhope in the act of starting off to a dinner in the neighbourhood. He was of course expected to go too, and Bessy appeared hurt when he declared that he was too tired and preferred to remain with Mr. Langhope; but she did not suggest staying at home herself, and drove off in a mood of exuberant gaiety.
She was admitted and shown to a living room where a woman of fair features and noble proportions greeted her. "Bessy's teacher, I presume?" she queried, graciously, yet with just that slight touch of hauteur which made Miss Hill feel her position. "I am Bessy's teacher," she replied, with dignity. "Can you spare me a few minutes?" "Assuredly. Please be seated. I've heard Bessy speak of you.
I've eaten no dinner these two days for thinking on 't; it's been a weary burden on my mind, but it's off now I see how well it looks. I told mother not to come near it till we'd spread it all out, and now I'll go fetch her. Bessy ran off into the house-place. 'It's well enough in a country kind o' way, said Molly, with the faint approbation of condescension.
'You'll make me feel wicked and guilty in going to this dinner. 'No! said Bessy. 'Some's pre-elected to sumptuous feasts, and purple and fine linen, may be yo're one on 'em. Others toil and moil all their lives long and the very dogs are not pitiful in our days, as they were in the days of Lazarus.
"Ah sure he might as well be in one place as another," she said indifferently. "Bessy, honey, as you're done, just throw the scraps to the white hin where she's sittin'." "He sez he's thinkin' to settle hereabouts," said Andy; "I tould him he'd a right to go thry his fortin somewhere outlandish, but he didn't seem to fancy the idee, and small blame to him.
"That was truly a great battle," said Adams, while Brace, having concluded, was refilling his pipe. "Right you are, John," said the other; "about the greatest victory we ever gained. It has settled the fleets of France and Spain, I guess, for the next fifty years." "But what was it all for?" asked Bessy Mills, looking up in the sailor's face with much simplicity.
Tredegar's feint of recognizing the justice of his adversary's claim was merely the first step to annihilating it; but Bessy could never be made to understand this, and always felt herself deserted and betrayed when any side but her own was given a hearing.
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