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As the two girls stood watching it, they heard a window flung up sharply, and Quinton Edge's voice calling to Old Kurt and bidding him saddle a horse with all speed. Nanna's eyes glowed. "It is something big," she said, excitedly, and began scrambling into her masculine attire. "Something that is worth our while to know all about," she continued. "But, Nanna " began Esmay, doubtfully.
Without deliberate intention, she yet grew a little more shy of David; she began to restrain spiritual confidence and to weep alone. He was not slow to feel the change, and it depressed him, and made Barbara wonder at Nanna's ingratitude and womanish unreason. "A good man fretting for her love, when there are hearts and hearts full waiting for his asking," she said to her neighbor Sally Groat.
The inverted bowl of the sky shone as though it were made of copper, and the gale had flattened out the flames horizontally so that they resembled the flying masses of a woman's unbound hair. Nanna's eyes filled with tears. "It was my world," she said, softly, "the only one I knew." "Nanna!" said Piers Minor. She let her hand rest in his, and the boat floated on.
And so, through the night, he dreamed and drifted. It was a week later that Esmay looked into Nanna's face bending over her, and knew that remembrance had come again.
I went into the next cottage and told Christine Yell that it was the last hour with Nanna; and she said, 'I will go to her, and so she did." "You should have stayed, mother." "My lad, the snow was already falling, and I had to hasten across the moor, as there was very good reason to do." Then David went out, and Barbara watched him take the road that led to Nanna's empty cottage.
But Constans's brow was clouded as he followed in Quinton Edge's footsteps. Arcadia House, and why? There could be but one answer to that question after Nanna's message, conveyed to him through Ulick's dying lips. Esmay had disappeared, and yet had remained in Arcadia House. He, who knew Quinton Edge, would understand. Constans told himself grimly that he did understand.
She no longer was oppressed, as formerly, with dreaming indolence. Her cheeks were roses now. Old Mr. Lonner and Magde were much gratified at this unexpected change in Nanna's deportment, and they could account for it only by supposing that she was much wiser than other girls of her age.
There he locked the door, and having first put Nanna's Bible on the big, round table, at which as a baby boy he had always sat in his high chair, he went over to the corner where Josephine was peacefully reposing with her kittens, and sat down on the floor by the cat's basket.
A strange day it had been to him; but he was too primitive to attempt any reasoning about its events. When he left Nanna's he was under that strong excitement which makes a man walk as if he were treading upon the void, and there was a hot confusion in his thoughts and feelings. He stepped rapidly, and the stillness of the lovely night did not soothe or reason with him.
At last the service was over, and the congregation streamed out of church. Timmy hung back a little, behind his mother. He did not wish her to see that he had Nanna's Bible instead of his own, but she was far too full of her own exciting and anxious thoughts to give any attention to her little boy. Rather to her surprise, she found her mind dwelling persistently on Enid Crofton.
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