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More than this, she touched the signature, the long-familiar name with her soft lips, and as though afraid of what she had done, hurriedly folded the letter and locked it away. Then she sat down and thought. Nearly two years had elapsed since she had left Briar Farm, and in that short time she had made the name she had adopted famous.
Why not take a service in the country?" "I'm a little tired of the country," she answered "I'd like a change." "An' a change ye're likely to git!" he retorted, somewhat gruffly "Lor' bless yer 'art! There ain't nothin' like the country! All the trees a-greenin' an' the flowers a-blowin' an' the birds a- singin'! 'Ave ye ever 'era tell of a place called Briar Farm?"
The afternoon was very peaceful and beautiful the sun shone warmly over the smooth meadows of Briar Farm, and reddened the apples in the orchard yet a little more tenderly, flashing in flecks of gold on the "Glory" roses, and touching the wings of fluttering doves with arrowy silver gleams.
There were hedges of sweet briar, acres of lupins, purple and yellow. Altogether the ideal estate of a nobleman; and Rezanov, who had liked nothing in California so well, gave his imagination rein and saw the counterpart of the castle of his ancestors rise in the deep shade of the trees. Don Jose's house was a long rambling adobe, red tiled, with many bedrooms and one immense hall.
It was in this work that the strikingly different temperaments and abilities of the two men were most clearly revealed. Seaton strode up and down the room, puffing great volumes of smoke from his hot and reeking briar, suggesting methods and ideas, his keen mind finding the way over, around, or through the apparently insuperable obstacles which beset their path.
I had a cold afterwards, and a bad sore throat, but I never told anybody how I got it. If I was excited about my poor little birthday, what will you be to-morrow?" "I don't know," said Pauline. "Listen, girls. I am so excited in one sense that I couldn't be any more so. I am so excited that I'm not excited. Can you understand what I mean?" "No, I'm sure I can't a bit," said Briar.
Now, as Pauline does not want to drive with me, I shall go into the house and finish some of my arrangements." Miss Tredgold went indoors, and Verena joined Briar and Patty, who were in a great state of excitement. Meanwhile Pauline had reached the wicket-gate. She opened it and went out. Nancy was waiting for her. Nancy's cheeks were flushed and her eyes bright.
She longed to yield to his wishes, she knew that if she did so she would give him happiness and greater resignation to the death which confronted him; and she also knew that if she could make up her mind to marry Robin Clifford she would have the best and the tenderest of husbands. And Briar Farm, the beloved old home would be hers! her very own!
What had he done at Briar Hills, what horrible thing? Could it be that the boy had ? I shrank in dismay from the terrible thought that came into my mind. I went hurriedly into the house and without ceremony waked the sleeping Jack. He aroused himself with difficulty but when I told him what had happened he came quickly to life. "You you're sure you're not mistaken?" he asked, still bewildered.
Brown's humble abode a small log-cabin which Beardsley had built for her in the edge of a briar patch on his own plantation. That was the only neighborly act that anybody ever knew the captain to be guilty of; but then it was not entirely unselfish on his part. Beardsley received important letters now and then.
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