You
can't think how delicious the great overhanging clusters are in the
lane. Some was up so high that Hal had to stand up in the cart to
reach them, and to take Fergus up on his shoulder. We never had such a
blackberrying as with mamma and Hal to help us. And only think, a
great carriage came by, with some very grand people in it; we think it
was the Dean; and they looked down the lane and stared, so surprised to
see what great mind to call out, 'Fee, faw, fum.' You know nothing
makes such a good giant as Fergus standing on Hal's shoulders, and a
curtain over them to hide Hal's face. Oh dear, I wish I hadn't told
you! You would have been a new person to show it to.'
Dolores made very little answer, finished her apple, and followed to
the schoolroom, where an irregular verb, some geography, and some dates
awaited her.
Then followed another rush of the populace for the evening meal of the
live stock, but in this Dolores was too wary to share. She made her
way up to her retreat again, and tried to lose the sense of her trouble
and loneliness in a book. Then came the warning bell, and a prodigious
scuffling, racing and chasing, accompanied by yells as of terror and
roars as of victory, all cut short by the growls of Mrs. Halfpenny.
Everything then subsided. The world was dressing; Dolores dressed too,
feeling hurt and forlorn at no one's coming to help her, and yet
worried when Mysie arrived with orders from Mrs. Halfpenny to come to
her to have her sash tied.
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