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At the head of the steps Kesiah was standing, and she answered the young man's anxious questions with a manner which she tried to make as sympathetic as the occasion required. This effort to adjust her features into harmony with her feelings had brought her brows together in a forbidding scowl and exaggerated the harsh lines between mouth and chin.
The letter was rather a long one, and closed thus. Referring to the verses enclosed, the writer says: If you print em I wish you'd jest let folks know who hosy's father is, cos my ant Kesiah used to say it's nater to be curus ses she, she aint livin though and he's a likely kind o lad. The letter and the poem were printed together in the Courier, and immediately were the talk of the town.
"They are an irascible family from the mother down," he observed, "and I'm sorry you've got into trouble with them so soon for the miller is probably the most popular man in the county." He paused, cleared his throat, and after a tentative glance at Kesiah, which fell short of her bosom, decided to leave the sentence in his mind unspoken while they remained in her presence.
Chamberlayne she represented merely an attractive object of charity; to Kesiah she appeared as an encroaching member of the inferior order; to Mrs. Gay she embodied the tragic disillusionment of her life.
The windows were open, and through the closed shutters floated a pale greenish light and the sound of dead leaves rustling softly in the garden. She had hardly entered before the door opened noiselessly again, and Kesiah came in bringing some white roses in a basket.
"It seems " the lawyer hesitated, coughed and glanced nervously at the door as if he feared the intrusion of Kesiah "it seems he was a lover was engaged in fact to Janet Merryweather before before she attracted your uncle's attention. Later the engagement was broken, and he married a cousin in a fit of temper, it was said at the time.
"I came down with Jonathan, Molly," she said. "You will doubtless find him at the brook." For an instant she hesitated in confusion and then added hurriedly, "We were speaking about you." "Were you?" asked Molly a little awkwardly, for Kesiah always embarrassed her. "We were both saying how much we admired your devotion to your grandfather.
Chamberlayne will tell you about it when he comes down to-morrow to talk over business with Kesiah. They keep all such things away from me out of consideration for my heart. But I've never doubted for an instant that your uncle did everything that was just and generous in the matter.
Kesiah, in an ugly grey dressing-gown, tied at the waist with a black cord, was drying Mrs. Gay's sheets before the radiator. At Molly's entrance, she turned, and said warningly, "Patsey is rubbing Angela after her bath. What was that about Old Church, dear?" "Jonathan has promised to take me down there to-morrow." "To spend the day? Well, I suppose we may trust you with him."
"What do you know of the Revercombs, Kesiah? Are they in any degree above the common people about here?" "The miller is a rather extraordinary character, I believe," she answered, lifting the spoon out of the dish of tomatoes as it was handed to her, and then shaking her head with a sigh and letting it fall. "Mr.
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