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But the hill screened it from the bitter north; and it was with a thankful heart that poor Alice Morely looked forward to a safe and sheltered winter for her children. At the time when the merry boys and girls of Littleton were enjoying the last of the skating on the mill-pond, the little Morelys were watching the departure of their father for the distant city of Montreal.
And yet her hopes were stronger than her fears this time, and she and her little daughter helped and encouraged one another without ever speaking a word. The father was to come in the night-train of Friday, and go away in the night-train again, so that he might have two whole days at least at home; and early as the sun rises on the twenty-fourth of May, the little Morelys were up before him.
There were no more suppers or breakfasts of thin gruel at the little log-house on the hill. In a few days after his first memorable visit, Stephen Grattan was there again, and again Farmer Jackson's oxen called forth the wonder and admiration of the little Morelys.
The clouds might return again, but there were none in her sky to-day. Things went well with the Morelys after this.
The snow lay deep and unbroken on the road, and it would have been a dangerous walk. "Besides, I could not tell her truly that his courage was good poor soul! and without that I might as well stay at home." That worse news awaited them Stephen himself did not know as yet. Perched on a hill-top overlooking the village of Littleton, stood the humble log-house in which the Morelys had taken refuge.
The little Morelys have come to think of the days before that pleasant May-time as of a troubled dream. The first fall of the snow-flakes brings a shadow to Sophy's face still; but even Sophy has come to have only a vague belief in the troubles of that time.
The voice of Stephen Grattan fell like music on their ears. The things were come at last, and plenty of them. There were bags and bundles manifold, and a great round basket of Dolly Grattan's, well known to the little Morelys as capable of holding a great many good things, for it had been in their house before.
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