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As for Howitt, there came across his clever face the whimsical look which denoted that he understood Mary's fun perfectly. 'I will go to-morrow, he cried. 'When the wise woman has told me who has bewitched Trilium, we will make a waxen figure and stick pins in it. The next day Howitt walked over the hills in search of Mistress Betty M'Leod.
The last summer before she died, Trilium fed out of mother's hand, and now she's in perfect health as far as we can see, but father says that if she keeps on refusing to give her milk he will be obliged to sell her. Miss Torrance, who was usually strong and dignified, spoke now in a very appealing voice. 'Couldn't you get an old farmer to look at her, or a vet?
Here the leaves were just bursting from their buds. Underfoot the early spring flowers the hepaticas, the anemones, the trilium, the dog-tooth violets, the quaint, early, bright-green undergrowths were just reaching their perfection. Migration was in full tide.
When he was returning home alone in the darkness, he felt his soul open to the power of unseen spirit, and to him the power of the spiritual unseen was the power of God. Walking on the soft, quiet road, he came near the house where he had lately loved to visit, and his eye was arrested by seeing a lantern twinkling in the paddock where Trilium grazed.
Howitt, will you just be kind enough to ask her how to cure poor Trilium? and don't forget anything of what she says. Miss Torrance gave her sister a word of reproof. There was still upon her face the fine glow born of a new resolution never again to listen to a word of witchcraft.
When he saw that Miss Torrance was actually there, he went on without speaking. After that two facts became known in the village, each much discussed in its own way; yet they were not connected with each other in the common mind. One was that the young minister had ceased to call frequently upon Miss Torrance; the other, that Trilium, the cow, was giving her milk.
In a marshy spot, a host of white violets sent up their dainty perfume; and close by the bed of a tiny brook, a scarlet trilium showed its velvety petals.
Then he supposed it was part of the joke, and proceeded to give the other details. 'Mr. Howitt, a tremulous pause, 'it is very strange about poor Trilium, she has always been such a good, dear cow; the children are very fond of her, and my mother was very fond of her when she was a heifer.
It seemed that Trilium, the cow, had recently refused to give her milk. Mary Torrance was about eighteen; she suddenly gave it as her opinion that Trilium was bewitched; there was no other explanation, she said, no other possible explanation of Trilium's extraordinary conduct. A flush mounted Miss Torrance's face; she frowned at her sister when the student was not looking.
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