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Updated: July 2, 2025
In spite of all its drawbacks, the little house at Framley was their home, and they shed many bitter tears when they bade good-bye to it, and the woods and the walks, and all their well-known play-places.
They had talked an hour, and were having tea. He admired some of her pictures unreservedly. They were like her voice to him lingering, soft, mysteriously of the long-ago. Their settings were play-places that he might have imagined. She believed what he said, but did not approve of his perception. She had lost faith. It was the sailor part of him that liked her pictures.
Thus did I learn the first lessons of suspiciousness. They attended me to the schoolhouse; they governed and made me watchful there. The schoolhouse, the play-places the very regions of earnest faith and unlimited confidence produced no such effects in me. They might have done so, had I ceased, on going to school, to see my relatives any longer.
Pereira, and for the Sultan-i-bagh, where I knew strangers lived now. For the lotus tank and orange grove, and all my little tame animals and my pretty play-places I should never, never see any more" Overcome by which intimate memories, Damaris' grave voice which had taken on a chanting cadence, at once novel and singularly pleasing to the young man's ear quavered and broke.
Nan and Mildred had been talking to some of the older girls, who were very nice and polite for girls who had no one to teach them at home, and Nan declared that she was coming over to the camp to play with them some whole day. "We can bring our lunch," said Mildred, "and you can show us all the pleasant play-places you have fixed up in stones over the mountain-side."
and numberless others, nearly all of them bearing a distinct Old World flavor. One of our play-places was an unoccupied end of the burying-ground, overhung by the Colonel's apple-trees and close under his wall, so that we should not be too near the grave-stones. I do not think that death was at all a real thing to me or to my brothers and sisters at this time.
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