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But when David took little Josh, wrapped up in an old cloak of his, and drove with him in a carriage to the station, and took the cars with him to Shadywalk, there was a general outcry and burst of astonishment and indignation. David was at breakfast the next morning as usual; and the storm fell upon him.
And Matilda loved Shadywalk and Briery Bank, but she was not ready with a response. She tried to be very busy with her studies, and hoped that things would work clear by and by. Once she had the curiosity to ask Norton how David was getting on at school? "Well enough," Norton answered shortly. "Do the boys like him better?" "Better than what?" "Why, better than they used to?" "I don't know.
I tell you, he's a brick." "O we're going over the bridge now, Norton!" Matilda exclaimed. "We're almost there. Look! I can see lights, can't I?" There was no question about it in a few minutes more. Norton got out at the Shadywalk hotel; and the omnibus lumbered on through Butternut Street to the parsonage gate and drew up at last before the old brown door. But it was too dark to see colours.
"And how do you like New York?" inquired the housekeeper. Matilda's answer was very unqualified. "'Tain't no better a place than this, is it?" the lady asked rather defiantly. "It is a larger place, Miss Redwood," said the minister. "Ain't Shadywalk big enough for a little mite of a thing like her?" "I don't know," said the minister.
"He's a friend of mine, and O, the pleasantest and the nicest man! and he can answer anybody." "Can he?" said David half smiling. "Where does he live?" "Up in Shadywalk. I wish you could see him. He could tell you just everything, and I cannot." "You have told me so much, though, that I must know more. What is this Mr. Richmond?" "He is a minister, David. O you would like him."
Laval questioned Matilda very closely as to all the particulars of their Shadywalk expedition and all that she had known for weeks past of David's state of mind. She made no comment on the answers; and Matilda heard no more about the matter, until Saturday morning came. Then when they were at breakfast, Mrs. Bartholomew said in a conciliating tone,
You heard Miss Redwood and me talking of Lilac lane, and people that live in it?" "I heard nothing of Lilac lane; never did, till this minute." "O you were in the study with Mr. Richmond. It is a place in Shadywalk where some very poor people live." "Well?" said David. "But it is a delightful place compared to Mrs. Binn's tenement house.
The two children kept Miss Redwood company in the dining room. It was a great falling off from last evening, Matilda thought; nevertheless she had a very entertaining talk with Miss Redwood about people and things in Shadywalk; and Norton listened, half amused and half sleepy. Mrs. Candy had been absent from Shadywalk near all winter; in New York. "In New York!" exclaimed Matilda.
David was very quiet and very sober; however in his case the quiet was quiet, and the soberness was very serene; all the old gloom seemed to be gone. Norton, Matilda thought, was cross; and she failed to see the occasion. Even Mrs. Laval looked uncomfortable sometimes, and once remarked to Matilda that it would be pleasant to get back to Shadywalk.
I must be off to my work." Nothing stopped David's work, in these days; indeed he never had been given to playing truant. Matilda pondered the matter a little, and then wrote a letter to Miss Redwood; upon which letter, when it reached Shadywalk, the housekeeper and the minister held consultation.
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