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In time he forgot everything but what he had to say, and it was rapture to be able to say it, and to feel that never before had he said it so well. His back was towards the inn, but through some trees Miss Calthea could see that Mr. Petter's spring wagon, drawn by the two grays, Stolzenfels and Falkenberg, was at the door, and soon she perceived that Mr.
If the Greek scholar himself felt surprised, he did not show it, for he was always ready to meet a cordial overture. Miss Calthea had just accepted an invitation to be seated in the shade, which she knew would very soon be followed by Mrs. Petter's going into the house, for that good woman was seldom content to sit long out of doors, when up stepped Ida Mayberry. "Mr.
The cold and discomfort of the morning gradually disappear; it amuses me to watch the various things I meet with on my way, and think a little, idly enough, of every one. The birds were most diverting; also, it was cheering to reflect that I had my pocket full of money. Falkenberg had chanced to mention that morning where Petter's home was, and I now made for that.
The Captain went over to Falkenberg and said: "I want you to drive the ladies tomorrow; they're going some way, and Petter's not well enough, it seems. Do you think you could?" "Surely," said Falkenberg; "and welcome." "Frokenen's going back to the vicarage," said the Captain, as he turned to go. "You'll have to be out by six o'clock."
Petter was so good to me, that I quite long to spend a summer there with my child." "Well, I'm glad he knows you are comin', but if he didn't, I was goin' ter say to you that you'd better go on to Lethbury, and then see what you could do with Stephen to-morrow. It's no use stoppin' at his house without givin' notice, and like as not it ain't no use then." "Is Mr. Petter's house filled?" asked Mrs.
Cristie thinks well enough of me not to interfere between me and Ida Mayberry. Now all I ask of you is to say a good word for me if you can get a chance." "After what you have told me," said Lodloe, "I think I shall say it." "Good for you!" cried Lanigan. "And if I go to Calthy and ask her to lend me the money to get a frame made for Mrs. Petter's fire-screen, don't you be surprised.
And away Nils and the teacher were borne, while from the other wagon there was a merry "Good-bye! good-bye! good-bye, teacher! good-bye, Nils!" and a hearty shout of "Hurrah for Nils!" from the driver, which came from the very depths of Petter's honest heart. The home to which the little schoolmistress and Nils were bound had formerly been a wayside inn of most modest pretensions.
If your boarders choose to associate with servants, let them alone. It simply shows what sort of people they are." Calthea Rose did not like to hear herself speak in a voice which might show how she was feeling, and as there was no use of staying there if she could not talk, she rose to leave, and, in spite of Mrs. Petter's hospitable entreaty to make a longer stay, she departed.
She looked about her apparently satisfied with the world and its ways, and readily accepted Mrs. Petter's invitation to stay to tea. As has been before mentioned, Walter Lodloe had grown into a condition of mind which made it unpleasant for him when people took Mrs. Cristie away or occupied her time and attention to the exclusion of his occupancy of the same.
Cristie reached the Squirrel Inn that she slowly trundled the little carriage containing the baby towards the end of the bluff beneath which stretched the fair pastures where were feeding Mr. Petter's flocks and herds.
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