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Updated: May 24, 2025
Yes, the pine trees stood there, too, just the same, but a fresher twig had been stuck in the doorlatch, some one had evidently been there since that last day. The path that led from the gate to the door and from there over to the cow house had vanished; grass covered it. The cow-house door had fallen off, and around the doorposts had grown up tall stinging nettles.
"I bet you he has been a porter," retorted Godeschal. "Only porters are gifted by nature with shabby box-coats, as worn and greasy and frayed as that old body's. And did you see his trodden-down boots that let the water in, and his stock which serves for a shirt? He has slept in a dry arch." "He may be of noble birth, and yet have pulled the doorlatch," cried Desroches. "It has been known!"
She lingered, hand upon the doorlatch. "Isn't there isn't there something else I can do?" she asked. "No, thank you." Still she stayed. "You haven't touched your supper," she said in a small voice. "Mayn't I send you something from the house?" "No!" he cried swiftly. "Not your pity nor your charity, neither!" Colina fumbled weakly with the latch and her hand dropped from it.
But even with the house darkened, the early supper eaten and Marylyn asleep in her bed before the hearth, the elder girl still kept on the alert. A nervousness born of loneliness had taken possession of her. If the doorlatch rattled, she raised herself, listening.
She had expected Burr that night; she had taken his cousin's hand on the doorlatch for his. He had not been to see her for three weeks, and her heart was breaking as she sang. Any face which had appeared to her instead of his in the doorway that night would have been to her as the face of a bitter enemy or a black providence, but Lot Gordon was in himself hateful to her.
Madelon looked at him as proudly as ever. "Very well," said she. She waited a minute longer; then she laid her hand on the doorlatch. "Wait a minute!" Lot cried. He looked at her hesitatingly. A flush crept over his white face. "Madelon," he began; then his cough interrupted him. He tried to force it back with fierce swallowings, but had to yield.
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