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Updated: June 11, 2025
She was dressed in black he noticed that. Instead of being arranged high upon her head, her marvellous hair hung in one massive plait down her back. She looked like a tall and beautiful school-girl. He had not seen her hair like that since the old days when he had been as one of the Carews. As he pushed open the door, she looked up; and for a moment they stood thus.
The more you love anyone, the more terrible a thing it is to quarrel with that person. So the breach had gone on widening with the years, and the little Carews had grown out of all knowledge of each other, especially as they bicycled every day to different schools in the county town. It was only in church indeed that they kept up any sort of acquaintance with each other's looks.
And some of them were shopkeepers' sons, young grocers, fellmongers, and poulterers, and these to their credit seemed to know how righteous it was to kick them. But others were of high family, as any need be, in Devon Carews, and Bouchiers, and Bastards, and some of these would turn sometimes, and strike the boy that kicked them.
Before the Carews came, Pollyanna had told Jimmy that she was depending on him to help her entertain them.
When Stephen said that perhaps they would not come to church this first Sunday, the others scouted the idea with scorn, and the eyes of all the Carews were turned towards the Grange pew as they went in. It was a big, old-fashioned, high-walled pew, and no one had ever sat in it as long as the children could remember; though Mrs.
And then Charles came in, listless and tired, and without an appetite. He sat down wearily on the other side of Evelyn, and watched her pour out his coffee without a word. "The Carews and Edmonts and Lady Delmour and her daughter have just gone," said Evelyn, "and Mr. Denis." "Yes," replied Charles, seeming to pull himself together; "Denis came to my room before he went.
They detested the marriage with Philip, which threatened the independence of England. At home they were powerless, but the sons of honourable houses Strangways, Tremaynes, Staffords, Horseys, Carews, Killegrews, and Cobhams dashed out upon the water to revenge the Smithfield massacres. They found help where it could least have been looked for.
The next day, on taking up her embroidery frame, Miss Boggs found a number of oldfashioned cross-stitches added to her Kensington. Prudence, she knew, would never have degraded herself by taking a cross-stitch, and the parlor-maid was above taking such a liberty. Miss Boggs mentioned the incident that night at a dinner given by an ancient friend of the Carews.
Chilton to asking really interested questions about the new Home for Working Girls, and Sadie Dean and Jamie were quarreling over the chance to help with the pea-shelling or the flower-picking. The Carews had been at the Harrington homestead nearly a week when one evening John Pendleton and Jimmy called. Pollyanna had been hoping they would come soon.
They were of families who provided the active men of enterprise of the period. The list of Devonshire justices in 1592 includes Sir Francis Drake, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Gilberts, Carews, Seymours, Courtenays, and other names prominent among the men who laid the foundations of the maritime greatness of England and of the existence of America.
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