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She was shocked at the trouble that seemed to threaten the happiness of Bud Yarebrough's household, and she stood uncertain whether to turn back from the encounter upon which unwittingly she had intruded, or whether to go on in case Melissa needed her help or her comfort.
"I can't go back to the Doctor's, of course," thought Sydney. "I'll go to Melissa Yarebrough's, she'll know." Off from the State Road, just beyond the cross-roads, a rough trail led into the woods. Sydney turned into it, and rode between bushes of laurel and rhododendron, whose glossy leaves shone dark above her head even as she sat upon her horse.
Carroll used to tell me that he knew it to be a fact that Bud Yarebrough's father Bud is a ne'er-do-weel who lives in a cove not many miles from here, Katrina, my dear was a great-grandson of one of the Dukes of Calverley." "Then Melissa's baby is the Lady Sydney Melissa Something-or-other!" laughed Sydney. "There's a legend of a penal colony, too," said Patton. "That is disputed," replied Mrs.
M'lissy Lance told me 'No' when she was a girl, an' M'lissy Yarebrough's never spoke a decent word to me since she's been married, 'n 'f unhappiness comes on her, Ah'll be glad of hit; 'n 'f hit comes through mah doin', hit's only what Ah'm aimin' at." "'Aimin' at? What mean you by that?" "Ah mean Ah'll be gladder still 'f she's hurt through me."
Unfortunately for the success of Friedrich's plan for Bud's moral regeneration, Yarebrough's affection for the Baron made him reticent on the fact of his debt to Pressley. "For," he thought, sagely, "if Ah tell him Ah owe Pink, he'll go to lend me the money, 'n Ah know he cain' afford hit. Would he ever 'a' gone into sellin' blockade himself if he hadn' been as pore as a crow?"
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