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Updated: June 23, 2025
''Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come. Byron. 'Agatha! Clare! I have had an adventure! Where are you? Oh, here you are; now listen! Elfie ran breathlessly into the house one afternoon in great excitement.
'I suppose we should all like to visit him, said Clare crossly. 'Why shouldn't one of us go, and you stay at home? I am sure a winter here will finish me. Walter seems such a stranger to us, said Elfie, 'that I wonder if he will like it. He was always at a boarding-school, and we only saw him for the holidays, and then he went abroad directly he left school. I hardly know anything about him.
Her fortitude failed, and bowing her little head, she wept so exceedingly, that Mr. Carleton was fain to draw bridle, and try to comfort her. "My dear Elfie! do not weep so," he said, tenderly. "Is there anything you would like? Can I do anything for you?" He had to wait a little. He repeated his first query.
There are a great many other places, grandpa said; but one is enough;" She gave him the latter part of the twentieth chapter of John. "You see, Mr. Carleton, he let Thomas fall down and worship him and call him God; and if he had not been, you know God is more displeased with that than with any thing. "With what, Elfie?" "With men's worshipping any other than himself.
"I shall often remember you, dear Elfie," he said; "I shall keep your rose always, and take it with me wherever I go. You must not make it too hard for me to quit Paris you are glad to have me go on such an errand, are you not?" She presently commanded herself, bade her tears wait till another time as usual, and trying to get rid of those that covered her face, asked him "What errand?"
She felt too inexperienced to argue the matter out with Gwen, though she totally disagreed with her. They reached home, and found Clare and Captain Knox before them. Afternoon tea was had in the drawing-room, and afterwards, before evening church, Elfie brought her violin out, and Agatha went to the piano, whilst the others gathered round and sang some hymns with them.
We've always grown together, Patty and me we came into the world together, and we pray the Lord He'll take us out in the same manner; and we know each other's ways, and when we don't agree, there's no one else to interfere. 'Do you ever disagree? asked Elfie, smiling. Patty nodded her head solemnly.
Carleton's remonstrances. "What is all this, Elfie?" said he. "Have you been robbing your rose tree?" "No," said Elfie; "there are plenty more buds! Isn't it lovely? This is the first one. They've been a great while coming out." His eye went from the rose to her; he thought the one was a mere emblem of the other.
"What new light have you got on the subject?" said he, smiling. "Why," said Fleda, trying as hard as ever did sunshine to scatter the remnants of a cloud, it was a bright cloud too by this time, "I have always heard that men cannot endure the sight of a woman's tears." "You shall give me a reward then. Elfie." "What reward?" said Fleda. "Promise me that you will shed them nowhere else."
All the while Elfie was flitting about, pelting Johnny with handfuls snatched from over-blown roses, and though he returned the assault at every pause, his grey travelling suit was bestrewn with crimson, pink, cream, and white petals. At last the debris of a huge Eugenie Grandet hit him full on the bridge of his nose, and caused him to exclaim
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