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You ha'n't lost none of your good looks ha' you kept all your old goodness along with 'em?" Fleda laughed at this abrupt question, and said she didn't know. "If you ha'n't, I wouldn't give much for your eyes," said Barby letting go her hand. Mrs. Plumfield laughed too at Barby's equivocal mode of complimenting. "Who's that young gal, Barby?" inquired Mrs. Elster.
Many of the collegians remained during vacation; and Plumfield and Parnassus did their best to make these days pleasant for them, since most came from distant States, were poor, and had few opportunities but this for culture or amusement.
"I know it," said Fleda; "but dear aunt Miriam, don't you think human nature longs for some human sympathy and help too?" "My sweet blossom! yes " said Mrs. Plumfield caressingly stroking her bowed head, "but let him do what he will; he hath said, 'I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." "I know that too," said Fleda weeping. "How do people bear life that do not know it!"
I seemed to hear you saying just that out of every bone I picked." "You minded my message," said the other, gently. "Well, I don't mind the things I had ought to most," said Barby, in a subdued voice "never! 'cept mother I aint very apt to forget her." Mrs. Plumfield saw a tell-tale glittering beneath the drooping eyelid.
The original twelve boys had of course scattered far and wide during these years, but all that lived still remembered old Plumfield, and came wandering back from the four quarters of the earth to tell their various experiences, laugh over the pleasures of the past, and face the duties of the present with fresh courage; for such home-comings keep hearts tender and hands helpful with the memories of young and happy days.
"'Tain't the practice of as good men as him and as good sugar-bilers, besides," said Earl; "though I don't mean to say nothin' agin Seth Plumfield nor agin his sugar, for the both is as good as you'd need to have; he's a good man and he's a good farmer there ain't no better man in town than Seth Plumfield, nor no better farmer, nor no better sugar nother; but I hope there's as good; and I've seen as handsome sugar that wa'n't stirred as I'd want to see or eat either."
"What do you mean?" "Have you?" said Mrs. Rossitur, with more energy. "Seth Plumfield was here a little while ago." Her aunt had the clue that she had not, for with a half scream, half exclamation, she quitted Fleda's arms, and fell back upon the pillows, turning from her and hiding her face there.
At last our Tommy got his bearings, and as autumn came on Plumfield saw but little of him; for his new lode star was in the city, and business kept him hard at work.
The door at the further end of the hall opened about two inches, and a voice called out through the crack, "Cynthy! Mis' Plumfield wants to know if that is Mr. Carleton?" "Yes. "Well, she'd like to see him. Ask him to walk into the front room, she says." Cynthy upon this showed the way, and Mr.
Plumfield, "and regular;" adding quietly, "I'll make it so." There was a bond for the whole amount in aunt Miriam's eyes; and quite satisfied, Barby went back to the house. "Will she expect to come to our table, aunt Miriam?" said Fleda when they had walked a little way. "No she will not expect that but Barby will want a different kind of managing from those Irish women of yours.
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