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Updated: May 13, 2025
The head is much clearer; whether hearts are better is doubtful. After supper, and while yet the sun lingered smilingly over the Great Meadows and on the hills, behind which he sank, Dorcas, who had meanwhile adorned herself with Aunt Dorcas's bequest, broke the long silence, by whispering so low that her father's sleep should not be disturbed, "Mother, do you set much by this pin?"
The rest was made out fully by the bright color on each face, the sparkling interest on the bent brow of Dorcas, and the deep, mellow voice, full of tenderness and hope, mixed with stern decision, on the part of Swan Day. No wonder Dorcas's eyes had a glamour over them as she listened and looked. What did she see?
Monday morning before school time, Peggy and John Edward and Elmore came to Miss Dorcas's door and asked for Anne. Would she please lend them Honey-Sweet that day? They'd be ever and ever so careful. "Lend Honey-Sweet!" exclaimed Anne. They hated to ask it but Lois would not take her medicine. She had pushed aside and spilled dose after dose.
I thought I might as well go down to the village at once, and look up Poirot; but I met him half-way, coming up to the house, and at once gave him Dorcas's message. "Ah, the brave Dorcas! We will look at the chest, although but no matter we will examine it all the same." We entered the house by one of the windows. There was no one in the hall, and we went straight up to the attic.
She said she didn't know what would "become of a little gal, that was so keerless," and decreed that she must stay at home from school and work on candle-wicks till Mrs. Dorcas's loss was made good to her. Ann listened ruefully. She was scared and sorry, but that did not seem to help matters any. She did not want any supper, and she went to bed early and cried herself to sleep.
But the words are precise honour and obey and obey you must; though, of course you may argue a point, if need be, and let your husband hear reason. And, having ruled the point, old Lady Chelford leaned back and resumed her doze. There was no longer anything playful in Dorcas's look. On the contrary, something fierce and lurid, which I thought wonderfully becoming; and after a little she said
'Suppose, Rachel, that I had been deceiving you perhaps deceiving myself time will show. There was a wild smile on beautiful Dorcas's face as she said this, which faded soon into the proud serenity that was its usual character. 'Oh! Dorcas, if your good angel is near, listen to his warnings.
He picked up the pepper-box, and mechanically sifted its contents into the barberry-dish. Dorcas's eyes, lips, cheeks, and waving grace! A rocking movement, a sort of beating, bounding, choking emotion, made the room suddenly dark, and he fell heavily into a chair. The landlord opened the door, and said, "The hoss and shay ready, any time."
All too soon for Anne, came the day that was to take her to the city. Generous Mrs. Collins insisted on slipping into Miss Dorcas's trunk a liberal supply of Lizzie's clothes, and she gave Anne one of Lizzie's best frocks to travel in and a muslin hat that flopped over her face.
He does not stick at trifles, Master Stanley. He's about the greatest liar, I think, I ever met with, and he laughed angrily. I happened at that moment to raise my eyes, and I saw Dorcas's face reflected in the mirror; her back was towards us, and she held the letter in her hand as if reading it, but her large eyes were looking over it, and on us, in the glass, with a gaze of strange curiosity.
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