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Updated: June 1, 2025
The preacher's purchase had to be left at the farm until he could return for it in the big farm wagon, but Phœbe thought of the highboy as they rode along the pleasant country roads. She remembered the expression she had caught on the face of Phares and the remembrance troubled her.
"Hello, Phœbe," a cheery voice rang out, followed by a deeper exclamation, "Phœbe!" as she came to the last intersection of streets in the town and turned to enter the country road. She turned a sober little face to the speakers, David Eby and his cousin, Phares Eby. "Hello," she answered listlessly. "What's wrong?" asked the older boy as they joined her.
"Now I hurt you like that lady hurt me, ain't, Phares?" she said contritely. "But I didn't mean to hurt you, Phares, honest." "But you like me best," said David gaily. "You can't take that back, remember." She gave him a scornful look. Then she remembered the flag in the Hogendobler garden and became happy and eager again as she said, "Oh, Phares, David, I know the best secret!"
Sometimes I wonder if Aunt Maria could possibly be speaking wisely when she says it is all a waste of money to run off to the city and study music. But what is there on the farm to attract me? I don't want to marry yet" the remembrance of Phares Eby's pleading came to her "and if I do marry some time, it won't be Phares. No, never Phares!
Just as though I want to go to a sale all alone with Phares! He can take the big carriage and take us all." "He can but he won't want to." David showed an irritating wisdom. "When I invite you to come on a party with me I won't want Phares tagging after, either. Two's company." "Two's boredom sometimes," she said so ambiguously that the man laughed heartily and Mother Bab smiled in amusement.
Phares was lovely about it and said he could just as well take your few acres in with his and pay a percentage to me for the crops he'll get from them. Phares is kind; he has a big heart, for all his queer ways and his strict views." "Phares is too good to be related to me, mommie. I'm ashamed of myself." "Ach, you two are just different, that's all. I can go over and stay at their house.
Oh, I'll have some fun, Phares! I'll bid on the third article they put up for sale! I heard a man say the dishes are going to be sold first, so I'll probably get a cracked plate or a saucer without a cup, but whatever it is, the third article is going to be mine." "That is rather rash," warned Phares. "It may be a bed or a chest." "You can't scare me.
But his voice, instead of reassuring, increased the general uneasiness, for it trembled. "I don't suppose that that Mene, Tekel, Phares, means that we're to be assassinated tonight?" speculated Don Custodio. All remained motionless, but when he added, "Yet they might poison us," they leaped up from their chairs. The light, meanwhile, had begun slowly to fade.
She don't know that I know, but I felt I ought to tell you." "Five hundred dollars! Phœbe did that for us she paid it? Oh, Phares, I'm glad you told me! I'm going to find her right away and thank her! You're a brick for telling me!"
Now, that the supreme moment had arrived, he hesitated and grasped at the first straw for conversation. "Oh, dear," she said childishly, "Aunt Maria expects me to remember ants and pennyroyal when I come here. Phares, I can't explain it, but this old quarry has a strange fascination for me. The beauty in its variegated stone with the sunlight upon it attracts me.
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