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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Pole will pay dearly," said the Squire, who was secretly securing meat for the discharged mill-hands and understood what had influenced Pole. Grey Pine and Westways during the summer and fall of 1858 felt, like many in the Northern States, the need to live with economy.
"Well, it is as good as a sermon, and as it belongs there on eternal guard so do I belong here for my little day; but I trust the spring will bring us peace, for oh, my God! I want it and Westways." He went in to his hut and stirred the fire into roaring companionship. Meanwhile Rivers, walking with McGregor, said, "Did the figure of that doomed wretch haunt you as we talked to John?"
The Doctor sat up and pulled off his handkerchief. The flies fell upon his bald pate. "Darn the flies," he said. "What is it, John?" "My uncle wants you to come to Westways to-morrow and doctor old Josiah's rheumatism." "I'll come." "He wants you to look after Peter Lamb. He's been drinking again." "What! that whisky-rotted scamp. It's pure waste of time.
He knew Lamb well enough to feel sure that Josiah would now have in him an enemy who was sure in some way to get what he called "even" with the barber, and was a man known and spoken of in Westways as "real spiteful." When next day Rivers entered the room where Lamb lay abed, he saw at once that he was better.
Then they fell to talking politics, the roofing of the chapel and the price of wheat and so Westways settled down again to its every-day quiet round of duties. The excitement of the fire and Lamb's flight had been unfavourable to literary composition, but now John returned to his letter. He continued: "The reticule will have to be finished in town.
"Oh, he told me you had talked to him and he had seen Leila and told her he was sorry. She never said a word to me. I told him that he ought to have apologized to me too." Rivers was amused. "Apologies are not much in fashion among Westways boys. What did he say?"
"He met me and he said, 'Saw Mr. John kissin' Miss Leila! He was off like a shot singin' out 'Goin' to get married, sure. It will be all over Westways by noon, sir." John laughed. "Well, it's true, Josiah Confound Billy! Well, what more?" "Oh, I would rather live with you. The Colonel wants to give me a farm don't want any farm." "Well, well we'll see about it later."
Tom had the democratic boy-belief that very refined manners imply lack of some other far more practical qualities, and thus to him and the Westways boys John Penhallow was simply an absurd Miss Nancy kind of lad, and it was long after the elders of the little town admired and liked him that the boys learned to respect him.
Drive on, Billy, but do be careful." They came to the little village of Westways. At intervals Billy communicated bits of village gossip. "Susan McKnight, she's going to marry Finney " "Bother Susan," cried Leila. "Be careful." John alarmed held on to his seat as the sleigh rocked about, while Billy whipped up the mare. "This is Westways, our village. It is just a row of houses.
The next morning the rector and John were at the station of Westways Crossroads when the Grey Pine carriage drove up. Mrs. Ann and Leila were a half hour too early, as was Mrs. Penhallow's habit. Billy was on the cart with the baggage, grinning as usual and full of self-importance.
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