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Darden looked up, and the eyes of the two men met; those of the younger were cold and steady. A moment, and his glance had fallen to his watch which he had pulled out. "'Tis early yet," he said coolly, "and I dare say not quite your dinner time, which I beg that Mistress Deborah will not advance on my account. Is it not your reverence's habit to rest within doors after your sermon?
"It has come to this," interrupted Darden, with an oath: "that this Governor means to sweep in the corners; that the Commissary damned Scot! to-day appointed a committee to inquire into the charges made against me and Bailey and John Worden; that seven of my vestrymen are dead against me; and that 'deprivation' has suddenly become a very common word!"
Audrey, hast ever heard children say that Satan comes and walks behind me when I go through the forest?" "Yes," said Audrey, "but their eyes are not good. You go hand in hand." Darden paused in the lifting of his tankard. "Thy wits are brightening, Audrey; but keep such observations to thyself. It is only the schoolmaster with whom I walk. Go on to the next question."
"Me not know oo!" said Archie, and began to cry. Mistress Kate turned pale, and began to back toward the door. "Me want my Kittie!" blubbered Archie. Kate stopped. "You want me?" "Me want my 'ittle Kittie my 'ittle b'indled Kittie! Dey put my Kittie in de hole in de darden! Me want her to p'ay wiz!"
"How long since I carried you across a stream and up a dark hillside!" he said. "And yet to-day it seems but yesternight! Now, little maid, the Indian has run away, and the path to the house is clear." In his smoke-filled, untidy best room Darden sat at table, his drink beside him, his pipe between his fingers, and open before him a book of jests, propped by a tome of divinity.
They at the Palace couldn't have taken her presence much amiss, or she would never in the world have come home in the Westover coach. There had lately come to Virginia, and to the convention of its clergy at Williamsburgh, one Mr. Eliot, a minister after the heart of a large number of sober and godly men whose reputation as a body suffered at the hands of Mr. Darden, of Fair View parish, Mr.
The red blooms of the columbine being in the way, he took up the bunch and tossed it out of the window. With the light thud of the mass upon the ground eyes of husband and wife met. "Hugon would marry the girl," said the latter, twisting the hem of her apron with restless fingers. Without change of countenance, Darden leaned forward, seized her by the shoulder and shook her violently.
"Why, it's gone," answered Darden "Gone in maintenance, gone in meat and drink and raiment. He didn't want it buried. Pshaw, Deborah, he has quite forgot his fine-lady plan! He forgot it years ago, I'll swear." "I'll send her now on an errand to the Widow Constance's," said the mistress of the house. "Then before he comes again I'll get her a gown"
'And so, he says to Darden, 'and so my little maid that I brought for trophy out of the Appalachian Mountains is a woman grown? Faith, I'd quite forgot the child; but Saunderson tells me that you have not forgot to draw upon my Oronoko. That's all the remembrance you were held in, Audrey." She paused to take breath, and to look with shrewish triumph at the girl who leaned against the wall.
I was in the garden, and he stopped to speak to me. Mr. Haward is home from England. He came to the great house last night, and he ordered his horse for ten o'clock this morning, and asked the nearest way through the fields to the parsonage." Darden whistled, and put down his drink untasted. "Enter the most powerful gentleman of my vestry!" he exclaimed. "He'll be that in a month's time.
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