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"You see," she said, "as I was a-settin' in the spring-house, this mornin', a-workin' my butter, I says to Dinah, 'I'm goin' to carry a pot of this down to Miss Scudder for the Doctor, I got so much good out of his Sunday's sermon. And Dinah she says to me, says she, 'Laws, Miss Jones.
Sam had gone to bed with a nervous headache. Senator Biggs brought the mail down to the spring-house at four, but there was nothing for me except a note from Mr. Sam, rather shaky, which said he'd no word yet and that Mr. Stitt had mixed all the cordials in the bar in a beer glass and had had to go to bed. At half past four Mr. Thoburn came out for a minute.
Beyond and below was the spring-house, and there was the place where the brook dived under the ruined wall, where Dorothy had wound into her hair the lilies of the valley before she sailed for London. The remains of a wall that had once held a balustrade marked the outlines of the formal garden. The trim hedges, for seventy years neglected, had grown incontinent.
He moved now to open the spring-house door; she turned and was lost to him in the lights and shadows of the woods-pasture. On its further border her cabin stood, and from it came the sound of a pitiful wail; at the back door a little child stood, staying itself by the slats let into grooves in the jambs.
Richard anywhere you want him to go," I said dryly, "is to have him nailed in a crate and labeled." "Damned young scamp!" said Mr. Van Alstyne, although I have a sign in the spring-house, "Profanity not allowed." "EXACTLY what was he doing when you last laid eyes on him?" I asked. "He was on the train " "Was he alone?" "Yes." "Sitting?" "No, standing. What the deuce, Minnie "
Amy, do thee go down to the spring-house, and bring up the milk and butter, and Orphy, thee can set the table." In the meantime, Orphy had drawn out the ponderous claw-footed walnut table that stood all summer in the porch, and spreading over it a brown linen cloth, placed in regular order their everyday supper equipage of pewter plates, earthen porringers, and iron spoons.
Big Tom's plantation has an openwork stable, an ill-put-together frame house, with two rooms and a kitchen, and a veranda in front, a loft, and a spring-house in the rear. Chickens and other animals have free run of the premises. Some fish-rods hung in the porch, and hunter's gear depended on hooks in the passage-way to the kitchen.
Sam'd killed chickens the night before, says she, 'and they was all dressed and ready, down in the spring-house; and the vegetables was right there on the back porch, but I never touched 'em, says she.
Grandmother is dreadfully particular," he added, hastily, not wanting to be impolite even to a tramp. "Seems to me Keith and I have to spend half our time washing our hands and putting on clean collars." "Oh, I know a place," cried Keith. "There's that empty cabin down by the spring-house. Nobody has lived in it since the new servants' cottage was built.
Harriet came out in the whitest of white dresses, carrying a tray with the glasses, and I opened the door of the spring-house, and felt the cool air on my face and smelt the good smell of butter and milk and cottage cheese, and I passed the cool pitcher to Harriet. And so we drank together there in the shade and talked and laughed. I walked down with Mr. Caldwell to the gate.
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