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There is no hope for me, unless they put me up as `a good little tortoise who never fell asleep. The worst of it is that in real life the hare keeps awake too, and spoils one's chance. I must be content to bloom, in obscurity `A violet by a mossy dell, half hidden from the eye' "
Pilgrim kids, that didn't know what "chaps" were he had talked with a few when he went with Doctor Dell and Daddy Chip to see the sick lady.
"Do you know," said he to the foreman indifferently, in the presence of the lads, "that I was thinking of calling the oldest one Doc and the youngest one Nurse, but now I'm going to call them just plain Joel and Dell, and they can call me Mr. Quince. Honor bright, I never met a boy who can pour water on a wound, that seems to go to the right spot, like Dell Wells.
The house was too large and pretentious for the grounds it stood in, these being hardly extensive enough to be called a park; they consisted of finely varied wood and dell, and were laid out in grass and fed off by sheep. He passed through a gate into the churchyard, which had a very little valley all to itself, the land rising on every side so as to make a deep nest for it.
A little way I still rode; then, dismounting, I tethered my mule, and went forward cautiously on foot. I found them in a little sunken dell by a tiny rivulet. Lying on my belly in the long grass above, I looked down upon them with a black hatred of jealousy in my heart. They were reclining there, in that cool, fragrant spot in the shadow of a great beech-tree.
You can shout! G'long, mules!" During the evening, Dell read Forrest's letter again and again. "Keep busy until the herds arrive," it read. "Enlarge your water supply and plan to acquire more cattle." "That's our programme," said Joel. "We'll put in two dams between here and the trail. Mr. Quince has never advised us wrong, and he'll explain things when he comes.
The old by-road went rambling down into a dell of deep green shadow. It was a reprobate of a road, a vagrant of the land, having long ago wandered out of straight and even courses and taken to meandering aimlessly into many ruts and furrows under arching trees, which in wet weather poured their weight of dripping rain upon it and made it little more than a mud pool.
Cuthbert shrewdly suspected that he would not be able to resist the temptation of going frequently to the spot where the buried treasure lay, to see if the ground remained undisturbed, and he thought that the surest way of discovering this spot was to seek for traces likely to be left by him; or, failing these, to watch patiently from some obscure spot till the gipsy came again to the dell, when it was probable he might betray the secret by his own movements.
They found a shady dell on the heath where they sat and talked of many things. It was not until it was nearly time to return home, and they saw the people coming away from the little church down in the vale, that Trevor looked at his companion and said abruptly: "I do wish you and the mother could live together. Do you think it could be managed?"
Ask old Dell, if you don't believe me. He may call himself Forrester, or Jones, or any other old name, for all I care, but he's Scammel right enough, and he's as mean as he is rich," she added violently. "I don't believe it," said Faith. She was surprised at her own boldness.
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