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Celestia was going away, and wished Graeme to come and see her, to-morrow. Mr Greenleaf would fetch her. "Celestia, going away!" she exclaimed, raising herself up. "Yes," said he, "have you not heard it?" "I heard the farm was to be sold, but I hoped they would still stay in Merleville." "So did I," said Mr Greenleaf, gravely. "When will they go?"
"It seemed like the picture of some one I had seen in a dream; and when I shut my eyes, and tried to bring back my father's face as it used to be in Merleville, it would not come the face of the dream came between." "Well, there is something in that," said Mr Snow, and he paused a moment, and shut his eyes, as if to call back the face of his friend. "No, it won't do that for me.
But the idea of your ever seeing all the crooked natures in Merleville made straight! Well, to say the least, I don't see how you can be very sanguine about it." "Well, I don't say that even that is beyond my ambition, or beyond the power of Him whom I serve to accomplish.
"Yes. And I fancied Mr and Mrs Greenleaf thought so, too. I saw them exchanging glances more than once." "Did you? It is to be hoped the minister did not see them." "Merleville people are all on the watch and they are so fond of talking. It is not at all nice, I think." "Oh, well, I don't know. It depends a little on what they say," said Rose, knotting up her hair.
All my fears were rebuked, and it is the burden of my prayers from day to day, that I may have a thankful heart." "And how did Sandy like Merleville, and all the people?" "Oh, he liked them well, you may be sure. It would have been very ungrateful if he had not, they made so much of him Mr and Mrs Greenleaf, especially, and the Merles, and plenty besides.
But all the Merleville folks will want to see him, I expect." Rose laughingly suggested that a town meeting should be called for the purpose. "Well, I calculate that won't be necessary. If he stays over Sunday, it will do as well. The folks will have a chance to see him at meeting, though, I suppose it won't be best to tell him so, before he goes.
Then when Deacons Fish and Slowcome, and all Merleville with them, settled down into the old gloom again, his visits to the minister became more frequent, and more satisfactory, it seemed, for in a little time, to the surprise of all, it was announced in due form, that Sampson Snow desired to be admitted into fellowship with the Church of Merleville.
You are young and have the world before you." "But my case is quite different. I settle here to get a living, and I mean to get a good one too, and besides," added he, laughing, "Merleville is as good a place as any other to go to Congress from; there is no American but may have that before him you know." "As for the living, I can get here such as will content me.
Morning and night, and, to the surprise of all the farmers' wives in Merleville, at noon too, when the days were long she milked them with her own hands, and made more and better butter from the two, than even old Mrs Snow, who prided herself on her abilities in these matters, made from any three on her pasture.
And before company, too! company with whom Hannah had not been "made acquainted," as Hannah, and the sisterhood generally in Merleville, as a rule, claimed to be. It was dreadful temerity on Rose's part. "Oh! Hannah, I forgot all about it." But the door was suddenly closed. Rose hastened after her in haste and confusion.
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