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Manchester is not Whindale, and papa wished us to live in Whindale; I am not somebody else and needn't earn my bread; and art is not religion; and 'Wheels! exclaimed Agnes. 'Catherine, I suppose, home from Whinborough. Rose got up and peered through the rhododendron bushes at the top of the wall which shut them off from the road. 'Catherine, and an unknown.
What between her sudden taciturnity and Catherine's pale silence, the girls' sense of expectancy was roused to its highest pitch. 'They come back to-morrow night, said Rose thoughtfully, 'and he goes Saturday 10:20 from Whinborough one day for the Fifth Act! By the way, why did Mrs. Thornburgh ask us to say nothing about Saturday at home?
She was, indeed, the only person whose remonstrances ever got under the wool with old Jim, and her sharp tongue had sometimes a cowing effect on his curious nonchalance which nothing else had. For the rest, they had no neighbours with whom the girl could fraternise, and Whinborough was too far off to provide any adequate food for her vague hunger after emotion and excitement.
He felt in it a momentary self-surrender that, coming from a creature of so rare a dignity, filled him with an exquisite sense of power, and yet at the same time with a strange humility beyond words. A day or two later he was the spectator of a curious little scene. An aunt of the Leyburns living in Whinborough came to see them.
She took her bag, and opening the gate, she placed it inside. Then she ran down the lane, drawing her fur round her, and shivering with cold. "I'll think a bit " she said to herself "I'll think what to say. Perhaps I'll come back soon." When she reached the main road again, she looked uncertainly to right and left. Which way? The thought of the long dreary road back to Whinborough repelled her.
He felt in it a momentary self-surrender that, coming from a creature of so rare a dignity, filled him with an exquisite sense of power, and yet at the same time with a strange humility beyond words. A day or two later he was the spectator of a curious little scene. An aunt of the Leyburns living in Whinborough came to see them.
But among this grim and earthy crew, there was one exception, a 'hop out of kin, of whom all the rest made sport. This was the second son, Richard, who showed such a persistent tendency to 'book-larnin', 'and such a persistent idiocy in all matters pertaining to the land, that nothing was left to the father at last but to send him with many oaths to the grammar school at Whinborough.
The narrow road, which was the only link between the farmhouses sheltered by the crags at the head of the valley and those far-away regions of town and civilisation suggested by the smoke wreaths of Whinborough on the southern horizon, was lined with masses of the white heckberry or bird-cherry, and ran, an arrowy line of white, through the greenness of the sloping pastures.
Manchester is not Whindale, and papa wished us to live in Whindale; I am not somebody else and needn't earn my bread; and art is not religion; and 'Wheels! exclaimed Agnes. 'Catherine, I suppose, home from Whinborough. Rose got up and peered through the rhododendron bushes at the top of the wall which shut them off from the road. 'Catherine and an unknown.
Thornburgh's 'high tea, that lady was seated in the vicarage garden, her spectacles on her nose, a large couvre-pied over her knees, and the Whinborough newspaper on her lap. The neighborhood of this last enabled her to make an intermittent pretence of reading; but in reality the energies of her house-wifely mind were taken up with quite other things.
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