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Updated: May 4, 2025
I waited for her to recover her senses, to open her eyes, not to add to her anguish by a word or look of mine, but to let her see me standing there, a living, silent accusation. Some farmer-boys entered with lighted candles, a cross and basin of holy-water.
When she went out, she could listen with more than ordinary delight to the songs of the birds. Some were singing with everchanging variety, others were somewhat more laboriously endeavouring to imitate the whistle of the farmer-boys. Adèle Rougeant sympathized with birds; she felt attracted towards them, for she too was a bird.
The farmer-boys were allowed no share in all this excitement, for the fisher-boys, who went in and out and saw everything, drove them away if they approached and sold meagre information at extortionate prices. The boat had met a Finnish schooner drifting in the sea, covered with ice, and with frozen rudder.
"You'll be in the preparatory department, Mr. Talcott, but if you care to do extra work we may get you into the junior class. Jennings, look after him a little, won't you?" The principal was a kind man, but he had two hundred of these rude, awkward farmer-boys, and he could not be expected to study each one closely enough to discover their latent powers.
The farmer-boys were allowed no share in all this excitement, for the fisher-boys, who went in and out and saw everything, drove them away if they approached and sold meagre information at extortionate prices. The boat had met a Finnish schooner drifting in the sea, covered with ice, and with frozen rudder.
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