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If the forge-yard was one point that he preferred to keep away from, there were also other places in the town that he made a round to avoid namely, that part of the quay where the blockmaker's workshop lay, and the Holmans' house up in the square. Whatever the reason might be, he had no wish to meet Silla.
But every one who knew anything about the Holmans, said that if they had not been fortunate in getting the boy, he had at any rate been fortunate in having found his way to them. There were not two opinions as to what an orderly woman Mrs. Holman was, and how strict in the fulfilment of her duty.
Longer since I was at the farm. I have got my nosegay safe. Remember me to the Holmans. Yours, E. H." 'That's not much, certainly, said the minister. 'But it's a comfort to know he's on land these blowy nights. Phillis said nothing. She kept her head bent down over her work; but I don't think she put a stitch in, while I was reading the letter.
She caught a glance from the sharp, defiant grey eyes then out of the blockmaker's hands, out of the gate, and he was gone! The blows on Ludvig's nose had gone to Barbara's heart. But when she heard that Nikolai had run away from the Holmans' and that there was some talk of getting him into an institute for morally depraved children, there was crying and weeping.
There was a war on now between the Huffs and Holmans into which Wiley's father had been drawn; and since Honest John had repudiated his son's acts and disclaimed all interest in his deal, Charley knew that Wiley was bitter. He had cut off the Widow from her one source of revenue but, when she had accused him of doing it for his father, Wiley had forgotten the last of his chivalry.
But, though he enjoyed great honour and admiration during the whole afternoon at school, Nikolai knew that at home he would meet with an utterly different interpretation of the event, news of which the Holmans must already have received, surely and promptly, from the Veyergangs. As he neared home, he went slower and slower.
But when Maren sat down there in the evening by the lantern on the chopping-block, and could hear the boy screaming right from the Holmans' room, she was not capable of going upstairs until the worst was over. She thought she had never heard anything so heart-rending, even though it was in the cause of justice. Up with Maren was a kind of harbour of refuge for the boy.
I was roused from a reverie on what I should like my possible wife to be, by hearing my father's warm praise of the minister, as a most unusual character; how they had got back from the diameter of driving-wheels to the subject of the Holmans I could never tell; but I saw that my father's weighty praises were exciting some curiosity in Mr Holdsworth's mind; indeed, he said, almost in a voice of reproach,
Whether the Coxes, the Garret Davises, the Saulsburys, the Fernando Woods, the Alexander Longs, the Allens, the Holmans, and many other prominent Congressmen of that sort, were merely in close communion with these banded "Knights," or were actual members of their secret organizations, may be an open question.
So she, too, waited patiently, to foil his machinations and uphold the honor of the Huffs. In the good old days it had never been forgotten that the Huffs belonged to the Virginia quality, while the Holmans came from Maine; hence the Colonel's relations with Honest John Holman had at first been strictly business.
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