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Updated: May 11, 2025
Parting in the morning brought tears alike to the eyes of those who stayed behind and those who were going on. The experience of the last two days had brought the Pratts and the girls of the Camp Fire very close together, and the Pratt children the younger ones at least wept and refused to be comforted when they learned that their new friends were going away. "Cheer up," said Eleanor.
She could not summon up the nonchalant distant civility which, according to her ideas, was sufficient for her country neighbors in general, and the Pratts in particular. Captain Pratt opined that the weather, though cold, was seasonable. Lady Newhaven agreed. Captain Pratt regretted the hard frost on account of the hunting. Four hunters eating their heads off, etc.
The young couple were so absorbed in their conversation that they had not observed the approach of a tall, clerical figure whom the parlor-maid was escorting towards them. "I saw you through the window, and I said I would join you in the garden," said Archdeacon Thursby, majestically. "I have been lunching with the Pratts.
Sage now arrived; a shrewd, observant, intelligent man, who had formerly represented the district in which he lived, in Congress. He was skilful in his profession, and soon made up his mind concerning the state of his patient. As the deacon never left him for a moment, to him he first communicated his opinion, after the visit, as the two walked back towards the well-known dwelling of the Pratts.
He edged over close to the plainsman and, in a pause in the talk, whispered to him: "I want you to tell me more about the Indians." The other man turned quickly and said: "Boy, they're my friends. In a show-down I'm on their side; my father was a half-breed." The night passed quietly and nearly all the men went home, leaving the Pratts to meet the storm alone, but Jennison had a final word.
Of course, I feel awfully sorry for the Pratts, but I'm glad that, if it had to happen to them, we came along in time to help them." They hadn't stopped working while they talked, and now they had brought as many boards as Margery wanted. "There are lots more boards, Margery," said Dolly. "Why shouldn't we make a sort of floor for the lean-to?
Free night schools over the country, for the child of eight to the man of eighty, will go a long way in solving the troublesome socialistic problem. George was familiar with the generous gifts and deeds of the Pratts of Baltimore, and of Brooklyn, of Carnegie, of Lorillard & Co., of Warner Brothers of Connecticut, and of the Messrs. Tangye of Birmingham, England.
Hester was half amused, half fascinated, and ruefully lost many of the mornings still left her by the Pratts and Gresleys in listening to the outpourings of this butterfly soul, which imagined every flower it involuntarily alighted on and drew honey from to be its own special production.
Mary was standing in the stoop, or porch of the house, and appeared to be anxiously awaiting her uncle's return. The latter gave the reins to a black, one who was no longer a slave, but who was a descendant of some of the ancient slaves of the Pratts, and in that character consented still to dawdle about the place, working for half price.
She was sitting with her tan-stockinged feet firmly planted on the carpet instead of listlessly outstretched, her eyes ominously fixed on the tea-table and seed-cake. Hester's silly heart nudged her side like an accomplice. "Who has been here to tea?" said Mrs. Gresley. "I met the Pratts and the Thursbys in Westhope." Hester was frightened.
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