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"At least " said the boy, with a blurt of confidence which yielded nothing, but implied the recognition of a friend and understander in the man "at least I used to make believe I had an elephant when I lived in Hillfield." "Yes?" said Anderson. He made a movement to go, and the boy still kept at his side.
I don't believe fish are very thick in the brooks around here. I used to catch great big fellers when I lived in Hillfield. One day " "When do you have your dinner at home?" broke in Anderson. "'Most any time. Say, Mr. Anderson, what are you going to have for dinner?"
"I think that these new people are very generous with their money," said Mrs. Morris. "I heard they about supported the church in Hillfield, New York, where they used to live, and Captain Carroll has joined the Village Improvement Society, and he says he is very much averse to trading with any but the local tradesmen." "What is he captain of?" inquired Mrs.
"He made one very good thing in Hillfield," said Carroll, "a view from the top of a sort of half-mountain there. I believe he sold it for a large price." "Well, I am glad of that," said Fowler. "Dodge has always been hampered in that way. Yes, he told me all the news, and especially mentioned having lived in the same village with you."
The boy turned at once to the man. "What business had that barber telling me to go into his old barber-shop?" demanded he. "I ain't afraid of all the boys in this one-horse town." "Of course not," said Anderson. "I did have an elephant when I lived in Hillfield, and I did ride him, and I did have circuses every Saturday," said the boy, with challenge. Anderson said nothing.
Although it does seem as if anybody had the rug, it ought to be that man we bought it of in Hillfield. You know he did not seem to like it at all, because he was not paid for it. But maybe he did not come by it honestly himself. He was a singular-looking man a Syrian or Armenian or a Turk, and one never knows about people like that. I don't mind in the least; it is all right.
The last time I asked her to do anything she insulted me. She told me to my face she did not work for dead-beats." "She was a very vulgar woman, Anna. I don't think I would patronize her under any circumstances." "No, I would not either, dear. But that finishes the New York dressmakers." "How about the Hillfield one?" "Amy!" "Well, I suppose you are right; but what "
He said he had had a studio the summer before in Hillfield, where I believe you were living at the time." Nothing could have excelled the smoothness and even sweetness of Fowler's tone and manner; nothing could have excelled the mercilessness of his blue eyes beneath rather heavy lids, and the lines of his fine mouth. "Yes, he did have a studio there," assented Carroll.
The hill is at present a toilsome ascent, but most picturesque; masses of shady trees in the grounds of Woodlands and Hillfield hang over the seats placed for wayfarers, and on the east side, in spring, bushes of flowering lilac or laburnum soften the picturesque red tiles and bricks of the well-built modern houses.
We don't know how much temptation the poor man has had, and maybe he never meant to cheat anybody." "Never meant!" repeated Mrs. Van Dorn, sarcastically. "Why, that is the way he has been doing right along everywhere he has lived. Why, I had it straight from a lady I met who had visited in Hillfield, New York, where they used to live before they came here. Never meant!"
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