Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge

Wilton School; or, Harry Campbell's Revenge

It was a sad evening in the little farm by the church of Wilton, yet very sweet and summer-like without. Very sad it was in the low, dim, oak-panelled parlour, whose diamonded window looked across the quiet churchyard, with its swinging wicket, its gravel-path beneath green aisles of lindens, and all the countless Very sad were those three sitters in the summer twilight, there, at the farm; for a good-bye had to be saida long, long farewell between that weeping pale woman, and the stout sailor, her husband. And Harry, their blue-eyed, sunny-haired boy, did not understand what it all meant;why papa did not cheer mamma with hopes of soon coming home againwhy mamma did not try to console herself by saying, over and over, that he would soon come back, as she always used in the old days when papa had to go to sea. She had never cried so bitterly before, although these good-byes had come so often. And now it made her cough; she seemed scarcely to have strength to cry. And papa, who was always so brave and stern, why was it even he could not stop the tears from rolling down his bronzed cheeks? And so Harry sat in the window-seat, quite unable to understand the meaning of all the sorrow, and looked out of the window at the farmer's wife nursing her last baby in the orchard, and then at the old sexton in the churchyard throwing up the red earth, and wondered why he always whistled such a jovial tune, while he himself felt so sad. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 22183
Author: Weatherly, F. E. (Frederic Edward)
Release Date: Jul 31, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English