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She promised, and left with a much lighter heart. A few days later I was requested to meet Mary French, who would be at John Hatfield's house at twelve o'clock. Her friend said, "She is nearly crazy, an' I coaxed her to see you. She's los' faith in every body I reckon, for 't was a good bit afore I could get her to see you agin. She said she did see you wonst, an' you couldn't do nothin' for her.
Hatfield so charmingly; and another why, you must allow me some share of female vanity: I don't pretend to be without that most essential attribute of our sex and if you had seen poor Hatfield's intense eagerness in making his ardent declaration and his flattering proposal, and his agony of mind, that no effort of pride could conceal, on being refused, you would have allowed I had some cause to be gratified.
He's gone from Horton. 'How long since? and where is he gone to? Hatfield's displeasure; for Hatfield didn't like him, because he had too much influence with the common people, and because he was not sufficiently tractable and submissive to him and for some other unpardonable sins, I don't know what.
Don't know her. She's not belongin' around here. No. Well, how'd you get here? And with Sim's mules?" Ruth told him briefly, but without bringing Fred Hatfield's trouble into the story. They had got aboard the timber cart at the crossing, the mules had run away, the panther had taken a ride with them and here they were! The hermit merely nodded in acknowledgment of the tale.
"If there was no body found," thought Ruth, all the time she was eating the supper that Mary brought her, "how do they know Fred Hatfield is really dead? And if he is dead, who is the boy who is traveling about the country using Fred Hatfield's name and carrying Mr. Hatfield's old wallet?
"I haven't seen you look so like Black James since you got Violet Hatfield's letter and did not see how you could get out of marrying her." Black James was a famous Arranstoun of the Court of James IV of Scotland, whose exploits had been the terror and admiration of the whole country, and who was even yet a byword for recklessness and savagery. Michael laughed. "Poor old Violet!" he said.
Aunt Alvirah was still in the bedroom with their strange guest. Of a sudden the girl's eye caught sight of the newspaper clipping laid on the window sill to dry. Mr. Cameron had placed the old wallet belonging to Fred Hatfield's father on the table when he came out of the bedroom. Now Ruth picked it up, found it dry, and went to the window to replace the clipping in it.
Hatfield's. In returning to the Lodge I felt very happy, and thanked God that I had now something to think about; something to dwell on as a relief from the weary monotony, the lonely drudgery, of my present life: for I WAS lonely.
Husband and wife were in their own room now, and Genevieve was rapidly recovering her calm. George turned from his mirror to frown at her in surprise. "Their trunks! They didn't lose any time, did they? But do you mean to say there was no telephoning no notice at all?" "They may have telephoned, George, love. But I was over at Grace Hatfield's for a while, and I got back just before they came in!"
'Well, but you saw him, didn't you? 'Yes, but I cannot pretend to judge of a man's character by a single cursory glance at his face. 'But isn't he ugly? 'He did not strike me as being particularly so; I don't dislike that cast of countenance: but the only thing I particularly noticed about him was his style of reading; which appeared to me good infinitely better, at least, than Mr. Hatfield's.
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