under you sorry for it i said he should attend his own cure � mr they laughed of course you don t credit that story about miss s marriage with lord suddenly god s good man i am slow to believe anything i hear � replied john � but � is it quite without foundation looked him straight in the eyes quite i very quite most quite my dear you are pale a change even a brief one will do you good go and see your bishop by all means and tell him how nearly how very nearly you gave to the calling of a by knocking down a rascal i they parted then and by was in the train away from st best at the rate of fifty miles an hour to one of the great cities where human beings swarm together more thickly than bees in a hive and and each other s lives out in the desperate struggle for mere bread and were left sole masters of the and its garden and both man and dog were depressed in spirits and more or less restless and discontented tain t what it used to be by no manner o means � muttered looking with a dejected air round the orchard where the wall fruit was hanging in green clusters of promise � don t seem to care an when he don t care then i don t care why it seems t other day twas may morning an he was frost on his shoulder an all the children wi the into the big meadow an all was as right as right could be � yet ere we re just in august an everything s like lord lord � ow trifles do make up a sum o life to be sure as the � for all what s naught in any wise miss as come ome to her own � an she s ad a few friends from with er that s simple enough as simple as in a lawn then miss s that is to be comes down an stays with old at the all in order to be near is sweet art there ain t out of the common in that it s all as plain as an ain t done either but jest his as he it � he ain t been up to the more n once � he ain t been at the all � an miss she ain t been ere neither since the day he broke his best for her so it can t be she what s done mischief � nor him nor any on em so i to myself what is it what s come over the old place what s come over neither place nor man s the same somehow yet if i know where the change comes in it s like one of the ways o the lord past out he might have thought there was something still more to god s good man wonder at if he could have looked into s cottage that evening and seen there sitting on a low stool at the old man s knee and patting his wrinkled hand tenderly while she talked to him in a soft and he listened with grave and sagacity though also with something of sorrow an so ye think it s the way my beauty he anxiously � there ain t no other comer round it i m afraid not dear she answered with a sigh � and i m telling you all about it because you knew my father and because you saw me when i was a little child you would not like me to marry a man whom i hate � a man who is bad right through and who only wants my aunt s money which he would get if i consented to be his wife i am sure you don t think money is the best thing in life do you � i know you agree with me that love is better looked down upon her where she sat with an almost devout tenderness love s the thing in the world worth an my beauty i he said � an love s you an you re sure to get i wouldn t see squire s married for money no not if it was a gold mine � i d rather see er in er grave i an i don t want to see er with a lord nor a duke � i u be content to see er with a good man if the lord will grant me that fore i die i an you do as you feels to be right an all things work together for good to them as loves the lord that s s an rare good it at this rose rather hurriedly and put on her hat tying its strings slowly under her chin good bye dear � she said � it won t be for very long but you must keep my secret � you mustn t say a word not even � here she paused and laughed a little � not even to the parson you re so fond of looked at her sideways with a meditative expression be gone away � he said a little smile creeping among the kindly wrinkles of his brown face � he back till sunday gone away was quite unconscious of the of pain in her voice as she asked the question as she was equally of the startled sorrow in her pretty eyes ah my beauty gone away � repeated with a curious sort of placid satisfaction � he be god s good man like an a change o scene do im good an bring im back all the better for it he came an said good bye to me this stood for a moment why had he gone away her brows met in a little line 