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Updated: June 21, 2025
I suggested to him that if he could induce the citizens of Philadelphy to believe it would be a good idea to have white winder-shutters on their houses and white door-stones, he might make a fortin. "It's a novelty," I added, "and may startle 'em at fust, but they may conclood to adopt it.
About eight o'clock, as we hearkened on our door-stones in the cold bright starlight, we could hear the faint crackle of a waggon from the direction of the turnpike-road. The noise was lost as the waggon dropped into a hollow, then it was plain again as it lumbered down the next long incline, and presently it entered Longpuddle.
Come, Nelly, hold your tongue it will he a treat for her to look in on us. Hareton, get forwards with the lass. You shall walk with me, Nelly. 'No, she's not going to any such place, I cried, struggling to release my arm, which he had seized: but she was almost at the door-stones already, scampering round the brow at full speed.
He would not cross the door-stones of the house, except at night, when he walked just like a ghost about the grounds and in the orchard as if he had lost his senses which it is my opinion he had; for a more spirited, bolder, keener gentleman than he was before that midge of a governess crossed him, you never saw, ma'am.
The willows in the valley were covered with fragrant tassels, and the old women and children sat all day on door-stones and by the wayside stripping the long, white wands for basket-making. Flax fields were blooming in the meadows, and acres of buckwheat, with its rosy stems and snowy blossoms, whitened the uplands with a fair prophecy of bread for all.
"The people who first made a home had their initials cut over the door. Many of the Jersey farmhouses have several sets of initials on the door-stones." Around the corner of the house lay a neat kitchen garden full of vegetables in thrifty green rows, a patch of the curious cabbages and in a field just over a fence, was tethered a pretty, soft-eyed Jersey cow.
'The brook's got up a piece since morning, said Jabez. 'Sounds like's if she was over Wickenden's door-stones. Jesse listened, too. There was a growl in the brook's roar as though she worried something hard. 'Yes. She's over Wickenden's door-stones, he replied. 'Now she'll flood acrost Alder Bay an' that'll ease her. 'She won't ease Jim Wickenden's hay none if she do, Jabez grunted.
'People need not nail up horseshoes and mark their door-stones with charms to keep the evil spirit out, ran on Lady Knollys, who looked pale and angry, in her way, 'but you open your door in the dark and invoke unknown danger. How can you look at that child that's she's not playing, said Knollys, abruptly stopping.
As they stepped upon the door-stones, and halted to take a last look at the moon, or more correctly at each other, by her light, I felt irresistibly impelled to escape them again; and pressing a remembrance into the hands of Mrs.
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