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Besides that, I may as well tell you, I have never given up the hope that by and by you would see all this, and in some hour give me a different answer. "When, therefore, I learned of your father's death, and afterwards of John's marriage, I thought it was time for me to return again. I have come to New York, and, if you do not forbid, shall come to Springdale.
"We shall see about that," said Lillie. "One thing at a time. I don't mean he shall live at Springdale. It's horridly pokey to live in those little country towns. He must have a house in New York." "And a place at Newport for the summer," said Belle Trevors.
When Jewett had been at Springdale some six or eight months, another young man dropped from the local one morning, and said, "Wie gehts," and handed him a letter. The letter was from the Superintendent, calling him back to Bloomington to despatch trains. Being the youngest of the despatchers, he had to take the "death trick."
They had tableaux, where Rose made Lillie into marvellous pictures, which all admired and praised. They had little dances, which Lillie thought rather stupid and humdrum, because they were not en grande toilette; yet Lillie always made a great merit of putting up with her life at Springdale.
Thus, I say, it came to pass that William was wearing out and no longer able to get through a protracted meeting alone. So at Springdale, he engaged Brother Dunn to come and help him. Brother Dunn was what may be called a professional evangelist. We had never seen him, but he had a reputation for being "wonderfully successful" with sinners.
That anybody should think it a sacrifice to be John's wife, and a trial to accept the homestead at Springdale, with all its tranquillity and comforts, that John, under her influence, should speak of the Springdale life as stupid, was a little drop too much in her cup. A bright streak appeared in either cheek, as she said, "Well, John, I never knew you found Springdale stupid before.
"No, Lillie; I would not leave Springdale for any money." "That is because you think of nobody but yourself," said Lillie. "Men are always selfish." "On the contrary, it is because I have so many here depending on me, of whom I am bound to think more than myself," said John. "That dreadful mission-work of yours, I suppose," said Lillie; "that always stands in the way of having a good time."
Farrell forced his horse through the press toward where a tall figure sat stiff in the saddle, and my own horse followed unguided. "A goodly turn-out, Duval," he commented briefly. "What was the number before we came?" "Forty-seven rifles," the Lieutenant's voice nasal, and high pitched. "The men from Orchard and Springdale are not in yet. How many arrived with you?"
She boarded with us and her and me were the greatest chums. She was just a sweet girl. She was the prettiest teacher we ever had, and that's saying a good deal, for Springdale has always been noted for getting good-looking schoolmarms, just as Miller's Road is noted for its humly ones. Anne had yards of brown wavy hair and big, dark blue eyes.
He is counted on like the fixed facts of nature; everybody else must turn out for him. So Lillie reigned in Springdale. In every little social gathering where she appeared, the one uneasy question was, would she have a good time, and anxious provision made to that end. Lillie had declared that reading aloud was a bore, which was definitive against reading-parties.
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