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Farnshaw valued the money, partly because in one way and another it added to the family possessions, and also because her husband having found out that he could obtain it through her easier than by direct appeal, she could avoid unpleasantness with him by insisting upon her daughter giving it to him; but Elizabeth's education was valued by no one but Elizabeth, and unless she were to learn her lesson quickly the time for an education to be obtained would have passed.
John Hunter's eyes twinkled an amused recognition, but he did not mention the accident in which Patsie had come to grief. "I am very glad to meet you, Miss Farnshaw; we are both wet weather birds." Seeing Liza Ann reach for a frying pan, he addressed himself to her: "Never mind any supper for me, Mrs. Chamberlain.
In order to get the long eight-mile drive over before it became hot, it was necessary to get an early start, and Elizabeth, with Jack at her side, was on the road before the sun was fairly above the horizon. About eight o'clock Mrs. Farnshaw turned at the sound of their feet on her doorstep.
"I guess it's only th' girl that figures in that deal! I ain't nothin' but th' oats she feeds on nohow," he reflected, and having once given the thought lodgment it grew and became the chief stone of the corner. Our own comes to us, and Josiah Farnshaw had formed the habit of that kind of thinking.
A slight disappointment awaited them. Though they were ready the young girl did not come immediately. According to the dilatory methods of the Farnshaw household, Elizabeth she had been supported by her father when the boys had shown an inclination to laugh her out of the change of name was three weeks later yet in going.
The old man rose from his stooping position in unfastening the tugs and faced the newcomer. "Why, it's Miss Farnshaw! Gee whiz! Be you a duck t' be out on such a day as this?" he inquired, stepping forward when he saw that she was coming in. Then chuckling at his own humour, he added: "I guess you be a goslin' a goslin' bein' a young goose, you know." Elizabeth Farnshaw laughed.
Farnshaw came and did not fail to let Elizabeth know that the country gossips were concerned with tales supposed to account for her secluded way of living. Some said that she was too "stuck-up" to associate with her old friends, while others said that John Hunter had married her to keep his house, but that he was not proud of her and preferred to leave her at home.
Farnshaw been wise she would have dropped all reference to the flax when the promise was obtained. But Mrs. Farnshaw had to talk; it was her fate. She had hovered about the field, she had centred her faculties on the considerations of harvesting, and prices.
With Mrs. Farnshaw the case was different. She was Elizabeth's mother, and certain privileges must be accorded her because of the relationship. When she chose to disapprove of the separation of her daughter from her husband, the daughter was compelled to recognize her right to protest, and often inadvertently to listen to the gossip which her mother urged as reasons for her objections. Mrs.
Farnshaw was all animation at once, her own troubles forgotten. "You don't say?" she exclaimed. "Now look here, Lizzie, you're goin' t' let him come?" Elizabeth had told her mother on the impulse of the moment after withholding the news from Nathan and even from Jack. The child had been wriggling out of his grandmother's arms and had not heard what his mother said.
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