Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 25, 2025
Soft as oil, and as slippery. How on earth did they come to Bear Hill?" "I suppose they thought it would be fun," Diana said with constrained voice. "Don't let anybody get sweet on you there, Diana Starling; not if you know what is good for you." "Where, mother?" "There. At Elmfield. Among the Knowlton folks." "What's the matter with them?"
I am glad I can respect him, at any rate." Mrs. Starling looked at her daughter with an odd expression. It was curious and uncertain; but she asked no question. She seemed to change the subject; though perhaps the connection was close. "Did you hear the family are coming to Elmfield again this summer?" Diana's lips formed the word "no;" the breath of it hardly got out.
"I shouldn't like them to think that," said the old gentleman. "You belong to me; and I belong to them, my dear." "Isn't it dreadful!" said Mrs. Reverdy in a low aside. "Now he's got this in his head whatever am I going to do? Suppose I invite them all to Elmfield; how would you like that, sir?" she added aloud.
"I told Mis' Reverdy," said Miss Gunn smotheredly from the depths of a blackberry bush and her sun-bonnet, "that we'd have plenty for ourselves and Elmfield too to-morrow. I will, I guess." "They'll want 'em, Miss Gunn," said Mr. Boddington. "They'll not carry home a pint, you may depend. Di, did they come after you, or you come after them, this morning?"
And she is not likely to see yours; I shall go to the post office myself. If she did, and found it out, I could keep her quiet easily enough. She would not want to speak, any more than I." Evan combated this resolution for some time. He wished to have Diana friends with his sisters and at home at Elmfield.
Haymaking was going on all over Pleasant Valley. By and by Miss Collins put her head in. "Be you fixed to see folks?" "Who wants me?" "Well, there's somebody comin'; and I reckon it's one or other o' them fly-aways from Elmfield." "Here?" said Diana, starting up and trembling. "Wall, there's one of 'em comin', I guess I see the carriage and I thought maybe you warn't ready to see no one.
Elmfield in all this time had not been revisited by its owners. June had come again. Windows were open, and the breath of roses filled the minister's study; for Diana had developed lately a passion for flowers and for gardening, and her husband had given her with full hands all she wanted, and much more. Mrs. Starling had grumbled and been very sarcastic about it.
I can't abide to hear folks talk nonsense. Who's at Elmfield?" "Ain't nary one there that had ought to be there; nary one but the help." "But they're comin'?" said Mrs. Starling, lifting up her head for the answer. "Wall, I can't say. Evan, he's too fur; and I guess men in his place hain't their ch'ice. And his folks is flourishy kind o' bodies; I don't set no count on 'em, for my part."
When will you come down to Elmfield?" "To Elmfield?" said Diana. "To begin to learn to know them all. I want them to know you." "You have not spoken to them about me?" "No," said he, laughing; "but I mean to." "Evan, don't say anything to anybody till mother has been told. Promise me! That would not do." "All's safe yet, Di.
That trouble, of fearing something wrong, Diana was spared; for she knew the family at Elmfield had heard, and all was well; but sometimes her other troublesome thoughts made her powerless hands come together with a clasp of wild pain. How long must she wait now? how long would Evan wait, before in desperation he wrote again?
Word Of The Day
Others Looking