The Girl at Cobhurst

about the young man at Cobhurst, but this desire was interfered with by the fact that

uninhabited. Its former owner, Matthias Butterwood, a bachelor, and during the greater part of his life, a man who took great pride in his farm, his stock, and his fruit trees, had been

and look at that, and had left his fields to take care of themselves, until he should be well enough to be his own farmer, as he h

ed man named Mike, who inhabited the gardener's ho

f the two races in his individuality had had the effect upon his speech of destroying all tendency to negro dialect or Irish brogue, so that, in fact, he spoke like ordinary white people of his grade in life. The effect upon his character, however, had been somewhat diff

r, except that he had received a postal card, directed to the man in charge of Cob

ot, I can't tell ye. All I know is, that he don't seem in no hurry to see his place, an' he must be a r

ne that he was a young man, unmarried, and a second nephew to old Butterwood. She had faith that Dr. Tolbrid

the willows turned yellow, and people began to ponder over the catalogues of seed merchants. At last, it was the third of April, and on that

orously pushed a pair of slippers into an unoccupied crevice i

country place to board; you are not going to a hotel, not to any house kept by other people; our things do not have to be packed separ

er brother, looki

"When one gets a home, one

even go away to

y declare that that is long enough for any girl. Others stay later, but then they do not begin so soon. As to finishing my education, as they call it, I shall

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hat I do know," he said, as he folded a

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examine you at all, and that is goodness of heart. If you had not had a very good heart indeed, you would not have waited and waited and waited-fa

his father's death, which occurred a month or two after that of his mother, young Haverley found that the family resources, which had never been great, had almost entirely disappeared. He could barely scrape together enough money to send Miriam to a boarding-school and to keep himself alive until he could get work. He had spent

had no sympathy with bonded warehouses, invoices, and ledgers. All he could look forward to was a higher position, a larger salary, and, when Miriam should graduate, a little home somewhere where she could keep house for him. In his dreams of this home, he would sometimes place it in the suburbs, where Sundays and holidays spent in country air would compensate for hasty breakfasts, early

e of Cobhurst. The reason for this bequest, as stated in the will, was the old man's belief that the said Ralph Haverley was the only one of his blood relations who seemed to be getting on in the world, and to

thy young man could not make a living out of a good farm he did not deserve to live at all. He gave immediate notice of his intention to abandon mercantile life, and set himself to work by day and by night to

wns, green meadows, and avenues bordered with tall trees-a grand estate in fact, with woods full of nuts, streams where a boy could fish, and horses that he might ride. Had these ideas existed in Miriam's mind, the brother and sister would have visited Cobhurst the day aft

of rather poor blackberries that you pick from bushes. Please do not put in your let