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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Will you go there to-day?" said Caroline, languidly; "it is a very pleasant walk through the glebe-land and the wood, not above half a mile by the foot-path." "I should like it so much." "Yes," said Mrs. Merton, "and you had better go before he returns, he is so strange. He does not allow it to be seen when he is down. But, indeed, he has only been once at the old place since he was of age.
But he rarely spoke. Everybody in Sils knew the man, but he was never called by his name, it was always "the Italian." He went by the foot-path across to Sils every day regularly, and thence up to Maloja. They were working on the highway in that place, and there he found employment. When, however, he did not have work up there, he went down to the Baths of St. Moritz.
"Well, that's all I want to know about THAT man!" As they were returning along the foot-path by the bluff Captain Obed, who had been looking over his shoulder, suddenly stopped. "That's kind of funny," he said. "What?" asked Emily. "Oh, nothin', I guess. I thought I caught a sight of somebody peekin' around the back of that henhouse. If 'twas somebody he dodged back so quick I couldn't be sure.
Tom smote himself alive and made haste to open the foot-path gate for them. There was nothing more said, or to be said; but when they were gone and he was once more alone with Nan, he was fighting desperately with a very manlike desire to smash something; to relieve the wrathful pressure by hurting somebody.
This last remark was addressed to a half-drunken man who pushed past him roughly without apology, almost jostling him off the foot-path. It was Oliver Leach, who hearing himself spoken to, glanced round sullenly with a muttered oath, and stumbled on. "That is Miss Vancourt's dismissed agent," said Adderley, pausing a moment to watch his uncertain progress up the road.
So he hurried onward, with quick soft steps. Once beyond the grove he entered the one and only street. It was wide, lined with tall poplars, and under each row of trees, inside the foot-path, were ditches where ran the water from Jane Withersteen's spring. Between the trees twinkled lights of cottage candles, and far down flared bright windows of the village stores.
And then, as if he had said too much, he pressed his lips together and walked off around the kiln. Barefoot now stood there, laughing scornfully and, at the same time, sadly over her brother's simplicity. "He sends to me and doesn't stay in the place where I can find him; now if I go up that way, why should he expect me to come by the foot-path?
"Bumblebees never sting," said Lily; and Amelia believed her. When the foot-path ended, there was the riverbank. The two little girls sat down under a clump of brook willows and talked, while the river, full of green and blue and golden lights, slipped past them and never stopped. Then Lily proceeded to unfold a plan, which was not philosophical, but naughtily ingenious.
For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will draw a bulky freighted junk at the rate of a mile an hour; but this grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with piglead in bulk.
With breathless haste he descended the slope, entered the wood at its lower edge, and traversed the tangled thickets of dogwood and haw, until he gained the foot-path, winding through the very heart of the shade. It was not many minutes before the two advancing forms glimmered among the leaves.
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