United States or Montserrat ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
When two years had gone by, her grandfather one day led the talk to that subject; he was then beginning to change in certain respects the tone he had hitherto used with her, and to address her as one who had outgrown childhood. He explained to her how it came about that Sidney could no longer be even on terms of acquaintance with John Hewett.
Concerning Jane he asked many questions; then the conversation turned once more to Sidney Kirkwood. 'I wish he'd married his old sweetheart, observed Joseph, watching the other's face. 'Who was that? 'A girl called Clara Hewett. Their looks met. Scawthorne, in spite of habitual self-command, betrayed an extreme surprise.
I wanted to fight, I tell you to fight till the life was kicked an' throttled out of me! 'John, don't, don't go on in that way, cried his wife, sobbing miserably. 'Don't let him go on like that, Sidney. Hewett jumped up and walked about. 'What's the time? he asked the next moment. And when Sidney told him that it was half-past nine, he exclaimed, 'Then why hasn't Clara come 'ome?
Even as a young man of good birth has been known to enjoy a subtle self-flattery in the thought that he graciously bestows his name upon a maiden who, to all intents and purposes, may be said never to have been born at all, so did Bob Hewett feel when he put a ring upon the scrubby finger of Pennyloaf.
So rose and to my office till church time, writing down my yesterday's observations, and so to church, where I all alone, and found Will Griffin and Thomas Hewett got into the pew next to our backs, where our maids sit, but when I come, they went out; so forward some people are to outrun themselves. Here we had a lazy, dull sermon.
Rich people can take care of their daughters as much as they like; they can treat them like children till they're married; people of our kind can't do that, and it has to be faced. John sat with dark brow, his eyes staring on vacancy. 'It's right what Sidney says, father, put in Mrs. Hewett; 'we can't help it. 'You may perhaps have done harm when you meant only to do good, pursued Sidney.
This was about my own experience in the Adirondacks. The birds for the most part prefer the vicinity of settlements and clearings, and it was at such places that I saw the greatest number and variety. At the clearing of an old hunter and pioneer by the name of Hewett, where we paused a couple of days on first entering the woods, I saw many old friends and made some new acquaintances.
At ten o'clock next morning, just when Jane was preparing for her visit to Merlin Place, so possessed with anxiety to ascertain if Pennyloaf knew anything about Clara Hewett that all her troubles were for the moment in the back ground, Bessie Byass came running upstairs with a strange announcement. Sidney Kirkwood had called, and wished to see Miss Snowdon in private for a few minutes.
'I haven't got any. 'You haven't got any? Why not? For a while she was stubbornly silent, but Hewett constrained her to confession at length. On his way home to-day he had been informed by an acquaintance that Amy was wandering about the streets at an hour when she ought to have been at her employment.
The children were not dirty nor uncared for, but their clothing hung very loosely upon them; their flesh was unhealthy, their voices had an unnatural sound. Sidney stepped up to the bed and gave his hand. 'I'm so glad you've come before Clara, said Mrs. Hewett. 'I hoped you would. But she can't be long, an' I want to speak to you first. It's a bad night, isn't it?
Word Of The Day