They make you a great deal of trouble."
"Oh, no," I answered lightly, returning with a sense of pleasure the
pressure of her hand, and it was not until afterwards, walking slowly
down the lane that I sighed gently, thinking of that troublesome boy who
had told me he was going to sea.
Removed from the world of newspapers, the ordinary active interest in the
affairs of church and state, there was a great deal of the lively gadding
about, neighborly dropping in element in Wallencamp. This applied to the
men equally as well as to the women. I remember that Abbie Ann once put
out her washing, and this fact kept the whole social element of
Wallencamp on the _qui vive_ for a number of days.
The caller would appear at the door at anytime during the day with a
good-natured matter-of-fact "I was a passin' by, and thought I'd drop in
a minit, jest to see how ye was gittin' along."
"Won't you set?" would be the cordial response. "Do set."
"Wall, I don't know how to spend the time anyway," the visitor
would reply; "there's so many things a drivin' on me."
But this care-belabored victim of fate usually concluded by sitting quite
complacently for any length of time.
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