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"Miss North says we may have some flowers, and we'd better go back, Willie, and see about getting the spot ready she had her seed box out last night, but I guess she'll give us plants too, to put in the ground." He was very thoughtful, and would not stay too long for anything, he said. Aunt Hildy looked after them, and sighed with the thoughts that rose within, but said no word.
"Captain Lane has sense enough to know that we are not responsible for his being taken away." "Hildy," said Mrs. Barkdale, "go up and tell the gentlemen that breakfast is ready." In a few moments the old woman returned in a fluster and said, "I knock on de doah, and dey ain't no answer."
Morning came, and he left us, and Aunt Hildy said: "Gone with his great eyes that allus remind me that still water runs deep. Can't see how Halbert and that man can be so thick together." Matthias, who was there early, ready to go to work, said to himself as the stage rolled away: "De Lord bless me, if dat man don't mos' allus set me on de thinkin' groun.
I turned to my work and left Aunt Hildy with the shadows of the past clinging about her, her feelings being too sacred for the gaze even of a friend. Every heart knoweth its bitterness, I thought, and secretly wondered if every heart had to bleed a little here, holding some sorrow close to itself.
The scholar lies at her feet, face downwards, his chin propped on his hands, his head bobbing up and down. The silence is only broken by the noise of the waterfall and the persistent chirping of some very cheerful little bird. Presently the boy raised his head and cried joyfully, "I've fetched him, Miss Hildy! I know it, now, jest like pie!"
Did you hear what the preacher said." "No, not really, heard all I could without neglectin' of my work." "She has been telling me a story of a good man. We will ask her to preach again." "Perhaps," said Aunt Hildy, "more'n just you and I will hear her. I can't see how all these ideas are comin' out, and 'pears to me, it looks as ef we'd got to meet, and have a battle somewhere before long.
Davis, with his gray hairs bending over her as if to hear her tell the message to his loved one; Aunt Hildy standing like one who is only waiting for a little more to fill the cup, which is already near her lips; my father and mother with their tender sympathies expressed in every feature, with Jane and her husband near them like two statues; Hal and Mary beside Louis and me, wrapt like ourselves in the mantle of a strange and new experience.
"I've had a splendid time, an' I'm real obleeged to ye. I sh'll try to larn that story by heart, 'bout the bold Buckle-oh. I want to tell it to Pink! She'd like it oh, my! wouldn't she like it, jest like I mean jest like spellin'! Good by, Miss Hildy!"
Long lines of streets passed through the meadow-lands, and where, in less level places, rocks and stones were in the path, the power of inventive genius was applied and the victory gained. Some of our people felt it keenly. To father it was an advantage, but to Aunt Hildy, the opposite. "Goin' to pass right through my nest, Mr.
Oh, Louis! get hot water and flannels, chafe her limbs, put a hot cloth over the stomach and chest; she is not dead," and putting my head down, I breathed full, long breaths into her nostrils. "'Taint no use," said Aunt Hildy, "but we must do it," and she worked with a will. "That poor angel woman is done gone," said Matthias. "She couldn't stan' it.
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