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Updated: May 19, 2025
This he said, thinking only of the boy-time obligation voluntarily assumed; but it was quite inevitable that Ardea should mistake the motive. "It is right and proper that you should care about that," she said judicially. And a little farther along she added: "But I don't like your attitude." "I don't like it myself," he rejoined heartily. "I never wanted so badly to say things in all my life!
The mouth had not quite relinquished rotundity of curve for the firm angularities of middle life; and the eyes, though keen, permeated rather than penetrated: what they had lost of their boy-time brightness by a dozen years of hard reading lending a quietness to their gaze which suited them well. A lady would have said there was a smell of tobacco in the room: a man that there was not.
"Coming here makes me feel as if the old boy-time had come back, Hetty. Rob and I have been planning out our new life, and the sea and the fresh air and the very houses seemed to join in the talk, and help me on as they used to do then. I'll begin all new: just as then. Only now" He put his hand on my shawl with a motion that had infinite meaning and affection in it.
When he recrossed the stream, at a point some distance above the boy-time perch pools, the serving foot-log chanced to be that used by the Little Zoar folk coming from beyond the boundary hills.
Never until now have we known the reality of the boy-days, or paused to receive their hallowed touch. Grandfather and grandmother, and the garden, and the river, and the song of the robin in the appletree, and all the myriad experiences of the boy-time, are glorified now as never before.
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