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She drew her hand away, almost by force, and retreated a step; his face terrified her. 'I sent Jessie off on purpose, he continued. 'I knew you were here, and wanted to speak to you alone. Since I met you that day on the Heath, I have had no rest I've wanted so to see you again. The other morning at the Cartwrights' it was almost more than I could do to go away.
The joiners, the weavers, the cartwrights, the smiths, the hewers of wood, the milkers of cows, the knitters, the sewers, the cooks, the washerwomen all had their special lovefeasts. At one time the joyful discovery was made that a Brother had served a year in the kitchen, and was ready to serve another; and thereupon the whole settlement held a general lovefeast in his honour.
She's a perfessional, and the family has gone away for three days, sure. Cuddent she do ye?" "Fine!" cried Patty. "Where do the Cartwrights live?" "Up the road a piece, an' thin down beyant a couple o' miles. Don't ye know the big grey stone house, wid towers?" "Oh, yes; I know where you mean. And is the cook there? What's her name?" "Yes, she's there. An' her name is O'Brien.
So marked a difference could not but impress even the Cartwrights themselves; the girls did not behave with entire freedom in her presence, and influences to which they were anything but readily susceptible were apparent in the tone they adopted in addressing her. In spite of themselves, they bowed to a superiority but vaguely understood.
Those young men! Dunfield was at that time not perhaps worse off in its supply of marriageable males than other small provincial towns, but, to judge from the extensive assortment which passed through the Cartwrights' house, the lot of Dunfield maidens might beheld pathetic. They were not especially ignorant or vulgar, these budding townsmen, simply imbecile.
Her own visits thither were made as few as possible; she declared that she never came away without a headache. In spite of restricted space, the Cartwrights found it impossible to relinquish the habit of universal hospitality. As if discontented with the narrow proportions of her own family, Mrs.
"Then you've been in L ?" said the girl, with a pleased, trustful manner, as of one who had met a friend at the right time. "Yes, I've visited there." "Indeed? Who did you know in L ?" "Are you acquainted with the Cartwrights?" "I know of them. They are among our first people," returned the girl. "I spent a week in their family a few years ago, and had a very pleasant time," said Pinky.
Half a dozen college classmates, a small number of fellow clubmen these painstakingly considered from more than one standpoint the Cartwrights, his cousins, whom he really knew but indifferently well; two score easily covered the number of those whom by any stretch of the imagination he could call friends. The long roll of his fashionable acquaintance he dismissed as out of the question.
It was supposed that several hundred fell in five minutes; sinners turned pale; some ran into the woods; some tried to get away, and fell in the attempt; some shouted aloud for joy." The horror of Brother Cartwrights for "immersionists" and Calvinists of every degree, appears throughout his entire book. That his righteous soul was often sorely vexed because of them is beyond question.
Since these roads were made accessible, wheelwrights and cartwrights have been established, the plough has been introduced, and improved tools and utensils are generally used. The plough was not previously employed; in the interior and mountainous parts they used crooked sticks, with iron on them, drawn or pushed along.
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