"
Then she proceeded to lay the table for supper, as they usually dined in
the middle of the day. Dorothy's feet were more active then, and Archie
preferred an early dinner. Everything was in readiness at last; the
bread and the butter and the jam, with cold chicken and ham, and the
kettle singing on the hearth; the curtains drawn and the bright fire
making shadows on the wall and falling upon the young girl, who, as her
ear caught the sound of footsteps without, ran to the window, and
parting the heavy curtains, looked out into the darkness so that the
first glimpse Grey Jerrold had of her was of her fair, eager face framed
in waves of golden brown hair, and pressed against the window pane in
the vain effort to see the dreaded American.
CHAPTER X.
GREY.
Between the man of twenty-three and the boy of fourteen, who had knelt
upon the snow in the leafless woods and asked God to forgive him for his
grandfather's sin, and had pledged himself to undo as far as was
possible the wrong to others that sin had caused, there was the
difference of nine years of growth, and culture, and experience, and
knowledge of the world; but otherwise the boy and the man were the same,
for as the Grey of fourteen had been frank, and truthful, and generous,
and wholly unselfish, with a gentleness in his nature like that of a
tender, loving woman, so was the Grey of twenty-three whom we last saw
upon the steamer which was taking him away from home and the lonely
woman watching so tearfully upon the wharf, and feeling that with his
going her joyless life was made more desolate.
Pages:
368
369
370
371
372
373
374
375
376
377
378
379
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392