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Good-by, dear mother, I must saddle Black Harry, and away to my night's work." The days were very short now, and Henry spent two-thirds of his time in Cairnhope Church. The joyous stimulus of his labor was gone but the habit remained, and carried him on in a sort of leaden way.
But, if these Dences are as great favorites with him as they were with my father, she could easily get you into the house some day, when he is out hunting; and I do want you to see one thing more before you come back from Cairnhope your mother's picture. It hangs, or used to hang, in the great dining-room, nearly opposite the fire-place.
She and her family are grateful; the air of Cairnhope has a magic effect on people who live in smoke, and Martha and Jael let me send them out an invalid now and then to be reinvigorated. I took this young man there, not knowing who he was. Go to him, if you like. But, frankly, as his physician, I would rather you did not. Never do a wise thing by halves.
Mother, it was like setting a match to a barrel of gunpowder. She turned as red as fire, and said, 'Who be you that speaks against Raby to Dence? "I tried to pacify her, but it was no use. 'Don't speak to me, said she. 'I thought better of you. You and I are out. I bowed before the storm, and, to give her time to cool, I obeyed your wishes, and walked to Cairnhope old church.
And Jael began to undo the paper. But Mrs. Little stopped her. "No, not yet. I couldn't bear the sight of a face that has brought misery upon him. I would rather look at yours. It is a very honest one. May I inquire your name?" "Jael Dence at your service." "Dence! ah, then no wonder you have a good face: a Cairnhope face. My child, you remind me of days gone by. Come and see me again, will you?
Henry brightened up, and ate a good supper, and his mother plied him with questions, all about Cairnhope. Here was an unexpected relief. Henry took a superficial view of all this. Sharp young men of twenty-four understand a great many things; but they can't quite measure their mothers yet.
Doctor, who would live in a town after Cairnhope?" Jael's fingers trembled at her bonnet-strings, and, turning a look of piteous supplication on Grace, she faltered out, "If you please, miss, might I stay over to-day?" "Of course. And then he will tell you all about your people, and that will do just as well as you going to see them; and better." Off came Jael's bonnet with wonderful celerity.
This resolution, not to marry for two years, is it your own idea? or has somebody put it into your head since we stood on Cairnhope, and looked at Bollinghope?" "Please give me credit for it," said Grace, turning very red: "it is the only sensible one I have had for a long time." Mr. Coventry groaned aloud, and turned very pale.
Nevertheless, his light hair, dark eyebrows, and black eyes, awed them, and co-operated with his brilliant costume and the other signs of company, to make them wish themselves at the top of Cairnhope Peak.
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