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She turned into a narrow path in the shadow of arches, clothed by a great Austrian brier, on which here and there a yellow flame still glowed. "Mr. Boyce when I meet you in company you shrink and cower detestably; when I meet you alone, you fence with me impudently enough and shrewdly; and always you avoid me while you can. I suppose there's in all this something more than the freaks of a fool.
Not the one with Japanese embroidery on it no; the old one. Given away? I groan aloud. Well, the silk one will have to do and a pair of comfortable slippers! Where is that old brier pipe I keep to go a-fishing? Now I want a book full of the sea and ships of pirates and coral reefs yes, Treasure Island; of course that's it and Long John Silver and the Black Spot.
Many times after this he rode down to Brier Hill whither Edith had frequently preceded him; but Richard never uttered a word of reproach when near the window he heard a rustling sound and knew who was sitting there.
You say there is a brier growing in the grotto: if your vision wants me to build a church on the cliff, tell her she must first cause that brier to bring forth roses in this winter season." Having received this reply, Bernadette withdrew. When she next saw her vision she delivered the message of Peyramale, but it was not regarded.
Suddenly Grace Atherton came into his mind, and Edith's request that he should tell her. "Yes, I'll do it," he said, starting at once for Brier Hill "'Twill be a relief to let another know it, and then I want to see her squirm, when she hears all hope for herself is gone." For once, however, Victor was mistaken.
Giving her a wide run I swung off into Brier Lane. The old cardinal that had been so cross to me all summer, when poor Redwheels's puff had disturbed his family, was trillingly glad to see me, and flew almost across my shoulder as he darted and whirled his welcome. And what should I meet in the middle of the lane, evidently off playing hooky where she should not have been, but Mrs.
After which short lecture, Star turned to her book again, a great book it was, lying open on the little pink calico lap, and went on reading, in her clear childish voice: "'Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moony sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green:
'Dolly, he gasped at last, when he could speak at all 'Dolly, what do you think? Just listen. Arthur is going to Europe, to stay forever, perhaps, and has left us Tracy Park. We are going there to live, and you will be as grand a lady as Mrs. Atherton, of Brier Hill; or that young girl at Collingwood.
"Ken," she remarked one morning, "I dropped into the Brier Tea Room yesterday." It was the brier that signified the meaning of the place to the old lady. "Do you remember?" Raymond nodded. Did he not remember! "The place is quite ordinary now but the food is still superior. Miss Gordon has come to her senses." "Has she?" Raymond asked, lamely. "Yes. And that girl do you remember her, Ken?"
He lit a candle and groped his way in. Presently he heard the sound of a pick or a drill, and wondered, what it meant. A spark of light now appeared in the far end of the tunnel, and when he arrived there he found the man Tim at work. Tim said: "I'm to have a job in the Golden Brier mine by and by in a week or ten days and I'm going to work here till then.
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