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Updated: May 12, 2025
Once during the past year, the village wise heads foregathered in the office of The Greenbush to discuss the very latest: the coming to Flamsted of seven Sisters, Daughters of the Mystic Rose, who, foreseeing the suppression of their home institution in France, had come to prepare a refuge for their order on the shores of America and found another home and school among the quarrymen in this distant hill-country of the new Maine an echo of the old France of their ancestors.
But never have the factional differences been more pronounced and the lines of separation drawn with a sharper ploughshare in this mountain-ramparted New England town, than during the five years subsequent to the opening of the Flamsted Quarries which brought in its train the railroad and the immigrants. This event was looked upon by the inhabitants as the Invasion of the New.
He wrote a note to the head clerk to say that he was leaving two days earlier for his vacation than he intended; left his address for the next four days in case anything should turn up that might demand his presence before starting on the cruise; sent the office boy off with a telegram to his mother that she might expect him Saturday morning for two days in Flamsted; went to his apartment, packed grip and steamer trunk for the yacht, and left on the night express for the Maine coast.
As she continued to look, the lovely light in the girl's face a light reflected from no sunset fires over the Flamsted Hills, but from the sunrise of girlhood's first love betrayed her to the faded watchful eyes beside her. "He looks just like your husband;" she spoke slowly; her voice seemed to linger on the last word; "when Tave saw him he said he thought it was Mr.
It was filled with anticipations of the yachting cruise, of a later visit to Flamsted, of Champney and her friends. Champney's name occurred many times, Alice's attitude towards the possessor of it seemed to be that of private ownership, but everything was written with the frankness of an accepted publicity of the fact that Mr. Googe was one of her social appendages.
Champney tried another tack: the next time her nephew came to Flamsted, later on in the autumn, she asked him to write her in detail concerning his intimacy with her cousins, the Van Ostends, and of their courtesies to him. Champney, nothing loath always keeping in mind the fact that it was well to keep on the right side of Aunt Meda wrote her all she desired to know.
"New York Special Despatch: L. Champney Googe, the treasurer of the Flamsted Quarries Co. " etc., etc. The men looked at one another.
"Champney came home unexpectedly last evening, and the syndicate has offered him a position, a big one, in New York treasurer of the Flamsted Quarries Company; and our Romanzo's got a chance too " "You don't say! What is it?" Mrs. Caukins started up stairs whence came sounds of an obstreperous bootjack. "Paymaster, here in town; I'll explain in more propitious circumstances.
Upon her arrival in Flamsted, the child's adaptability to changed circumstances and new environment was furthered by the play of this imagination that fed itself on what others, who lack it, might call the commonplace of life: the house at Champ-au-Haut became her lordly palace; the estate a park; she herself a princess guarded only too well by an aged duenna; Octavius Buzzby and Romanzo Caukins she looked upon as life-servitors.
She marvelled at the light-heartedness and, at the same time, wondered if, now that Romanzo Caukins could no longer hope, Aileen would show enough common sense to accept Luigi Poggi in due time, and through him make for herself an established place in Flamsted. Not that she was yet ready to part with her far from it. She was too useful a member of the Champ-au-Haut household.
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