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She said no more; but put the children to bed; then came downstairs with her bonnet on. "Will you come with me, Phineas? Or are you too tired? I am going down to the mill." She started, walking quickly yet not so quick but that on the slope of the common she stooped to pick up a crying child, and send it home to its mother in Enderley village.
Three months of little renunciations three months of the old narrow way of living, as at Norton Bury and the poor people at Enderley might have full wages, whether or no there was full work. Then in our quiet valley there would be no want, no murmurings, and, above all, no blaming of the master.
The next morning rose, as I have seen many a morning rise at Enderley misty and grey; but oh, so heavenly fair! with a pearly network of dewy gossamer under foot, and overhead countless thistle downs flying about, like fairy chariots hurrying out of sight of the sun, which had only mounted high enough above the Flat to touch the horizon of hills opposite, and the tops of my four poplars, leaving Rose Cottage and the valley below it all in morning shadow.
Guy's countenance brightened at the notion of "lots of shooting and fishing" about Enderley, especially at Luxmore; and Maud counted on the numerous visitors that would come to John Halifax, Esquire, of Beechwood Hall. "Neither of which excellent reasons happen to be your father's," said Mrs. Halifax, shortly.
You have little pleasure at Enderley. I almost wish we could go home." "Don't think of such a thing. It is doing you a world of good. Indeed, we must not, on any account, go home." I know, and knew then, that his anxiety was in earnest; that whatever other thoughts might lie underneath, the sincere thought of me was the one uppermost in his mind.
"Let me explain, then;" and her involuntary gesture seeming to have brought back all honest dignity and manly pride, he faced her, once more himself. "It is right, Miss March, that you should know who and what I am, to whom you are giving the honour of your kindness. Perhaps you ought to have known before; but here at Enderley we seemed to be equals friends." "I have indeed felt it so."
Next day, the rain poured down incessantly, sweeping blindingly across the hills as I have rarely seen it sweep except at Enderley. The weather had apparently broken up, even thus early in the autumn; and for that day, and several days following, we had nothing but wind, rain, and storm.
"And a likely way you went about to get it! Stopping me in the dark, on a lonely road, just like common robbers. I did not think any Enderley men would have done a thing so cowardly." "We bean't cowards," was the surly answer. "Thee carries pistols, Mr. Halifax." "You forced me to do it. My life is as precious to my wife and children, as as that poor fellow's to his." John stopped.
He opened the valve. With a strange noise, that made the two Enderley men spring back as if the six devils were really let loose upon them, the steam came rushing into the cylinder. There was a slight motion of the piston-rod. "All's right! it will work?" No, it stopped. John drew a deep breath.
To me it was long ah, so long! as I lay pondering with an intensity that was actual pain, on what must come some time, and, for all I knew, might even now be coming. A week slipped by. We had grown familiar with Enderley Hill at least I had.
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