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"Well, I never could see what there was in salt water!" said Mrs. Flandin, "that folks should be so crazy to go into it! If I was drownin', 'seems to me I'd rather have my mouth full o' sun'thin' sweet." "But I was not drowning," said Diana. "Well, I want to know what you've got by stayin' away from your place all summer" her mother went on.
"I s'pose you've seen the fashions to-day down at Elmfield, Mr. Masters," said Mrs. Salter. "They don't think as we hev' no fashions, up here in the mountains." "Their fashions is ridiculous!" said Mrs. Flandin. "Do you think it's becomin', Mr. Masters, for Christian women to go and make sights of themselves?" "In what way, Mrs. Flandin?" "Why, goodness! you've seen 'em. Describin's impossible.
Her mother was not going to church; Will Flandin was; and the plan, she saw, was fixed, that he should drive herself. Her mother would oblige her to go; or else, if she made a determined stand, Will on the other hand would not go; and she would have to endure him, platitudes, blue necktie, cloves, and all, for the remainder of the morning. Only one escape was left her.
She was very sorry for him, so much that she almost forgot to be sorry for herself, as she went into the house. Mrs. Flandin was sitting with Mrs. Starling in the lean-to kitchen. "So you made up your mind to come home," was her mother's greeting. "I almost wonder you did." "If you knew how good the salt water was to me, you might wonder," Diana answered cheerfully.
Carpenter came a crowd; Mrs. Flandin, and Mrs. Mansfield, and Miss Gunn, and all the rest, with short interval, driving up and unloading and joining the circle on the piazza; which grew a very wide circle indeed, and at last broke up into divisions. Gertrude was obliged to suspend operations for a while, and use her eyes instead of her tongue.
He thought that the complete filling up of the apartments to the height of fifteen or twenty feet was thus best explained; and he believed that there were traces of the fallen vaulting in the debris with which the apartments were filled. On this latter point M. Botta and M. Flandin both eye witnesses were at variance.
Now, a minister had ought to know what he means, whether any one else does or not, and I like a minister that makes me know what he means." "Why, Mrs. Boddington," said Mrs. Flandin, "I didn't know as you cared anything about religion, one way or another." "I've got to go to church, Mrs. Flandin; and I'd a little rayther be kep' awake while I'm there without pinching my fingers. I'd prefer it."
Diana smiled to herself, to think that she was safe now from even distant pursuit; no fear that Flandin would by and by come up with her, or even make his appearance at the church at all that day; the storm was violent enough to keep any one from venturing out of doors, or to make any one turn back to his house who had already left it.
"Mother," said Diana, laughing, "I can't feel afraid. We have never wanted 'em yet." "You've been young, child. You will want 'em as you grow older. Marry Will Flandin, and you'll have 'em; and you may churn your cream how you like.
"I'm not a man-worshipper never was; and nobody's fit to be worshipped. I should like to see the dominie put down that grey horse of his." "Are grey horses fashionable?" inquired Mrs. Reverdy, with her little laugh. "What would he do without his horse?" said Mrs. Boddington. "How could he fly round Pleasant Valley as he does?" "He ain't bound to fly," said Mrs. Flandin.
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