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Updated: May 19, 2025
She might even have been living again for the moment those old-house days when, with her brother and Mary and Charlie Martin, she had played there on these same steps. Those old-house days had been joyous and carefree. Her school years, too, had been filled with delightful and satisfying activities.
Old-house Molly, after congratulating herself, with many thanks to heaven, for having spared her to see 'massa's' wife and children, drew forward her young companion, and informed me she was one of her numerous grandchildren.
They were all to meet at the Manor at eleven o'clock; and, punctual to the hour, a goodly array of happy young people walked up the avenue and entered the porch of the old-house. Andrew, devoted to Maggie, was present. Jack, equally Maggie's slave, was also there. Maggie herself, looking neat and happy, was helping every one.
As he looked back on it all now, it seemed to him that he had always loved this girl companion of his old-house days. In his boyhood he had accepted her as a part of his daily life just as he had accepted his sister.
"But I remember, in the old-house days, before you went away to school, you and Charlie Martin were " She interrupted him with "I was a silly child. I suppose every girl at about that age has to have her foolish little romance." And the Interpreter saw that her cheeks were crimson. "A young girl's first love is not in the least silly or foolish, my dear," he said.
They realized now that this man, who had in their old-house days won the first woman love of his girl playmate, had held that love against all the outward changes that had taken her from him. John and his mother knew, now, why Helen had never said "Yes" to Jim McIver. Peter Martin and Mary knew why, in Captain Charlie's heart, there had seemed to be no place for any woman save his sister.
And again the man in all his strength felt that dread foreboding. When Peter Martin and his daughter arrived with John at the big house on the hill, Mrs. Ward met them at the door. The old workman betrayed no consciousness of the distance the years of Adam Ward's material prosperity had placed between these two families that in the old-house days had lived in such intimacy. Mary hesitated.
In those old-house days, when Adam worked with Pete and the Interpreter, she had gone sometimes to the outer gate to meet her father when his day's work was done. On rare occasions her automobile had stopped in front of the office. That was all.
Papa's got some of his business friends and people from around the OLD-house neighborhood coming to-night for a big dinner and 'house-warming' dreadful kind of people but mamma's got it all on her hands. She's never sat down a MINUTE; and if she did, papa would have her up again before " "Of course," said Bibbs. "Do you like the new place, Edith?"
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