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Updated: June 10, 2025
It must be what Miss Beecher called the 'chivalry of horses'!" "It's the chivalry that has to develop under petticoat government!" retorted Mr. Gartney. At this moment Faith's blue flag waved vehemently over her head. She had caught the jingle of bells, and perceived a sleigh, with a man in it, come out into the crossing at the foot of Garland Lane.
"If," thought Elmer, "Holden is Armstrong's brother, he has a right to stay; if not, he has at least saved Faith's life, as she says herself, and he knows after all, a 'hawk from a hand-saw. Young Holden, too, is a sensible fellow, and I think I may trust them." In some such way thronged the thoughts through Elmer's mind.
By this time the other verger, who was a young and active man, and the mason, arrived, and mattocks, spades, and an iron bar being procured, and a couple of torches lighted, they descended to Saint Faith's. Nothing more picturesque can be conceived than the effect of the torchlight on the massive pillars and low-browed roof of the subterranean church.
Something seemed to snap in Faith's heart. She stumbled towards him and would have fallen at his feet but for his upholding hand. She broke into wild, incoherent words, clinging to him desperately. "Don't leave me ... I can't bear it.... I love you. Forgive me. I've nobody in all the world ... oh, forgive me ... forgive me...." "Faith!" The Beggar Man spoke her name with a great cry.
"If she has killed Adam " Faith began to run up the hill. Mary shrugged her shoulders. "She'll go crazy now. She was so fond of that Adam. He ought to have been in the pot long ago he'll be as tough as sole leather. But I wouldn't like to be in Martha's shoes. Faith's just white with rage; Una, you'd better go after her and try to peacify her."
If it should take long to reach it, what would be the result? Mr. Carnegie, at this, started up, and seemed about to go outside, when Faith's soft voice arrested him. "Father wished us all to stay here," she said reproachfully. He turned back, with a movement full of agonized uncertainty. "I know," he murmured, "but "
She filled the corners with stately oak-boughs, and made a bower of the purple ash in the bow-window, Faith's window. Then she set the tea-table with the best china, every plate and dish resting on a mat of scarlet leaves, while a chain of yellow ones outlined the shining square board.
So they left beautiful Normandy for their faith's sake, and with a few louis d'ors in their purse, a Bible in the vulgar tongue, and a couple of old swords, which, if report be true, had done service in the Huguenot wars, they crossed the sea to the isle of civil peace and religious liberty, and established themselves in East Anglia.
Faith's face flushed, then it became pale, and her eyes, suffused, dropped upon the paper before her. At first it seemed as though she must resent his boldness; but she had made a friend of him these years past, and she knew he meant no rudeness. In the past they had talked of things deeper and more intimate still. Yet there was that in his words which touched a sensitive corner of her nature.
He is always telling me that if people offer to give me anything I must never, never take it." Before Faith could speak Aunt Prissy came into the room. "Tell your father I will come in and pay him for Faith's shoes to-morrow, Louise," she said pleasantly, "and you must come and see Faith again." "Yes'm.
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