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Updated: May 17, 2025
'I never forget the way to a friend's place, George, she said, 'and you've been our best friend while these naughty boys have left mother and me so long by ourselves. But you've been away yourself. 'Only four months, he said; 'and after a few more trips I shan't want to go away any more. 'That will be a good day for all of us, she said. 'You know, Gracey, we can't do without George, can we?
Well, we'd better come in. Gracey 'll think we're afraid to face her. When we went away last Grace Storefield was a little over seventeen, so now she was nineteen all out, and a fine girl she'd grown. Though I never used to think her a beauty, now I almost began to think she must be.
All petty stealers were most severely punished into the bargain. As I stood up to say good-bye a small note dropped out of my breast-pocket. It had shifted somehow. Kate always had an eye like a hawk. With one spring she pounced upon it, and before I could interfere opened and read it! It was Gracey Storefield's. She stood for one moment and glared in my face. I thought she had gone mad.
Carr wore herself to a shadow in the quarter of an hour they spent waiting for the doctor and Charley Gracey.
I think more of old George now than I ever did before, and wish I'd had the sense to value his independent straight-ahead nature, and the track it led him, as he deserved. Jim and I rode in front, with Gracey between us.
He made us tell him over again about Starlight and I going to the ball, and our seeing Aileen and Gracey there; and when he came to the part where Starlight made the bride a present of a diamond ring I thought he never would have done chuckling to himself. Even old Crib looked at me as if he didn't use to think me much of a fellow, but after this racket had changed his mind.
'That was always pretty and good, said the widow, laying her hand upon Miss Nugent, 'and kind and good to me and mine. That minute there was music from below. The blind harper, O'Neill, with his harp, that struck up 'Gracey Nugent.
'I don't think he could pull me out of the water and carry me up to the cottage now. 'You tumble in and we'll try, says Jim; 'first man to keep you for good eh, Gracey? It's fine hot weather, and Aileen shall see fair play. 'You're just as saucy as ever, Jim, says she, blushing and smiling. 'I see George coming, so I must go and fetch in dinner. Aileen's going to help me instead of mother.
Gracey made shift to tell me she was so proud to hear I was doing well; that Aileen's eyes had been twice as bright lately; that mother looked better than she'd seen her this years; and if I could get away to any other country she'd meet me in Melbourne, and would be, as she'd always been, 'your own Gracey' that's the way it was signed. When I read this I felt a different man.
Gracey was sewing away in the little parlour, where there always used to be a nosegay when I was a boy, and it was that clean and neat I was afraid to go into it, and never easy till I got out again. There she sat as sober-looking and steady as if she'd been there for five years, and meant to be for five years more.
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