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Aunt Hildy would hardly understand me, and as I was waiting for something to move as it were, to make room for me to step, I must still wait, and thought what a pity it was I had not waited in the beginning, and then when I did move make all things plain. But then it lay before me, around and within me, this strange compound of good thought and impulsive will, and I must reach and fall until, ah!
"Happiness comes from the inner room," said Aunt Hildy; "silver and gold and acres of land couldn't make a blind man see." Her comparisons were apt, and her ideas pebbles of wisdom, clear and white, gathered from experience and polished by suffering. Both she and Clara were books which I read daily.
I feel ill able to undertake the task." Aunt Hildy turned to hang up her broom, saying as she did so: "I'd like to have your sister Phebe give him a lecture she'd tear him all to pieces jest as easy as shellin' an ear of corn. I like to hear her talk; she ain't afraid of all the lies that can be invented.
While she was there old Hildy crept in, with her feeble step, and whispered, "I foun' dis un'er Cap'n Lane's piller." It was but a scrap of paper, unaddressed; but Suwanee understood its significance. It contained these words: "I can never repay you, but to discover some coin which a nature like yours can accept has become one of my supreme ambitions. If I live, we shall meet again."
I knew then what the covered chairs meant, but I secretly wondered "How on airth," as Aunt Hildy used to say, all those moveables were to be got into our house. This thought was running through my head when Clara spoke, crossing the room as she did so, and taking my father's hand and he was such a reserved man that no one else would ever have dreamed of doing so. "Mr.
"And what mought your name be?" inquired Master Chirk. "Hildegardis Graham." It was gently said, in a very different voice from that which had answered Farmer Hartley in the same words the night before; but it made a startling impression on Bubble Chirk. "Hildy " he began; and then, giving it up, he said simply: "Well, I swan! Do ye kerry all that round with ye all the time?"
It really never seemed like exertion, and to sense this wondrous art was to me the asking of questions deeper than any among us could answer. Hal's statue of dear Aunt Hildy was copied, and improved also by Mr. Benton, who considered it a masterpiece, and the respect we bore our friend was not lessened, even though there were those among us who might speculate as to the motive that prompted it.
"So, how do you like our fair town?" Hildy asked. "Very fair it is," Patrick said. "Good burger!" "Plenty more where that came from." Patrick heard a trace of Europe in her voice. "Are you from Woodstock?" "I was born in the Netherlands," she said. "We came over not long after the war." "I used to live in Germany," Patrick said. "Very different."
The poor lamb must be better, else she would not come back so soon," and I opened the door for her entrance. "I know what you're after," she said, "she's better; the poor thing will get well. Oh dear! land! I wonder, when'll the same old story end." "Has she told it to you, Aunt Hildy?" "Partly to me and partly to Mis' Goodwin."
"They couldn't make lies sound like that, ye know! You kind o' know it's true, and it goes right through yer, somehow. When did it happen, Miss Hildy?" "Oh! a long time ago," said Hildegarde; "near the end of the sixteenth century. I forget just the very year, but it was in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
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