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Sylvie had a handful of checks; Rodney took them from her, and went out to the end of the platform to find the boxes. Two vehicles had been driven over from Hill-hope to meet her; an open spring-wagon for the luggage, and a chaise-top buggy to convey herself.
It would not have suited him to go to church in a wagon like his neighbors, any more than he could have bought a rough working-suit of new clothes for every day. The chaise-top had always framed the faces of Mr. Haydon and Martha, his first wife, in a fitting manner not unlike a Friend's plain bonnet on a larger scale; it had belonged to their placid appearance of old-time respectability.
In doing so she had to push back the chaise-top, and the little girls had a full view of her face. "O, Dotty Dimple Parlin!" screamed her sisters, in dismay. Fanny Harlow hastened to open the gate. "Where did you come from, you naughty thing?" whispered Susy, with a crimson face.
I had scarcely taken my arm inside the chaise when Aspen stopped, turned his head, and looked at us with glazed eyes; flakes of foam flew from his mouth over his mane. The flesh on his back contracted and quivered. I thought he was frightened by the chaise-top, and looked at Charles in terror. "He has some disorder," he cried. "Oh, Cassandra! My God!"
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