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And this characteristic aspect made her attractive; an individual touch you know. The dog had run on ahead and now gazed at us by the side of the Fyne's garden-gate in a tense attitude and wagging his stumpy tail very, very slowly, with an air of concentrated attention. The girl-friend of the Fynes bolted violently through the aforesaid gate and into the cottage leaving me on the road astounded.
And still no sign of deliverance came to the unwilling vigil-keepers. Towards one o'clock the sound of rather boisterous and undisciplined carol-singing approached rapidly, and came to a sudden anchorage, apparently just outside the garden-gate.
And again, as on the previous day, they all turned at the garden-gate, and kissed their hands evidently to the face on the window-sill, though Barbox Brothers from his retired post of disadvantage at the corner could not see it. But, as the children dispersed, he cut off one small straggler a brown- faced boy with flaxen hair and said to him: "Come here, little one. Tell me, whose house is that?"
It was a little larger than a good-sized doll's house, and furnished with spindle-legged chairs and tables that had been polished to the last extremity of brightness. "Perhaps you would be so good as to walk into my sitting-room for a few moments, sir," said this lady, opening her garden-gate. "I shall be most happy to afford you any information about your friends."
He puffed at his pipe, his face was redder than usual. "Well, Eben," he said, after a pause, during which the two men smoked energetically, "I hope you'll keep her a while." "You don't think she looks delicate?" cried the Squire, turning pale. "Her mother doesn't think so." The Colonel laughed heartily. "When a girl blossoms out like that there'll be plenty trying the garden-gate," said he.
The spare bedroom that assigned to the patient was on the ground-floor next to the dining-room; it communicated with the garden by French windows, and by a small flight of steps. Fanny walked cautiously along the road past the garden-gate; a rapid glance assured her that no one was there; she hastily opened the gate and slipped in.
It was growing dark we heard a sound of voices at the garden-gate. Our host hurried out instantly: he had his wits about him; we had not. There was a talk of two or three minutes, and he returned alone. 'I thought it had been your cousin Hareton, I observed to Catherine. 'I wish he would arrive! Who knows but he might take our part?
When she reached home, her mother was standing with two or three neighbours in front of the house at the sight of Emily there were exclamations of relief and welcome. 'My child, where can you have been? Mrs. Hood cried, following the girl who passed the garden-gate without pausing. 'Is father come? was the reply. 'No, not yet. But where have you been?
Kenelm averted his head, and then replied, not with his wonted courtesy, but briefly and brusquely, "I fear I cannot call to-morrow. I shall be far away by sunrise." Lily made no answer, but turned back into the room. Mr. Braefield found the gardener watering a flower-border, conferred with him about the heart's-ease, and then joined Kenelm, who had halted a few yards beyond the garden-gate.
Accordingly she rose very early one morning; she wrote a pretty and grateful note to Miss Starke, who was fast asleep, left it on the table, and before any one was astir, stole from the house, her little bundle on her arm. She lingered an instant at the garden-gate, with a remorseful sentiment, a feeling that she had ill-repaid the cold and prim protection that Miss Starke had shown her.
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