but he liked a friendly chat over his own home and though it was pleasant to lay down the law to a stupid neighbor who had no notion how to make the best of his farm it was also an agreeable variety to learn something from a clever fellow adam for the last three years � ever he had the building of the new bam � adam had always been made welcome at the hall farm especially of a winter when the whole family in f master and mistress children and servants were assembled in that glorious kitchen at well distances from the fire and for the last two years at least had been in the habit of hearing her uncle say adam may be working for now but he ll be a master man some day as sure as i sit in this chair is in the right on t to want him to go partners and marry his if it s true what they say the woman as him have a good take be t lady y or � a remark which mrs ways followed up witli her cordial assent ah she would say it s all very line having a ready made rich man but may happen he ll be a ready ma fe fool and it s no use your po o money if you ve got a hole in the comer it ll do you no good to sit in a o your own if you ve got a soft to drive you he ll soon turn you over into the ditch i said i d never marry a man aa had got no brains for where s the use of a woman having bi of her own if she to a as every body a laughing at she might as well dress herself fine to sit back ard on a donkey these expressions though indicated the bent of mi s s mind with regard to adam and though she and her husband might have viewed the differently if had been a daughter of their own it was clear that they would have welcomed the match with adam for a niece for what could have been but a servant elsewhere if her uncle had not taken her in and brought her up as a domestic help to her aunt whose health since the birth of had not been equal to more positive labor than the of servants and children but had never given adam any steady encouragement even in the moments when she was most thoroughly of his superiority to her other admirers she had never brought herself to think of accepting him she liked to feel that this strong keen eyed man was in her power and would have been indignant if he had shown the least sign of slipping from under the yoke of her tj and himself to the gentle mary who would have been grateful enough for the most trifling notice from him mary indeed such a sallow faced girl if she put on a bit of pink ribbon she looked as as a crow flower and her hair was as straight as a bank of cotton and always when adam away for several weeks from the hall farm and otherwise made some show of resistance to his passion as a foolish one took care to him back the net by little airs of and timidity as if she were in trouble at his neglect but as to marrying adam that was a very different affair there was nothing in the world to tempt her to do that her cheeks never grew a shade deeper when his name was mentioned she felt no thrill when she saw him passing along the by the window or advancing toward her unexpectedly in the across the meadow she felt nothing when his eyes rested on her but the cold triumph of knowing that he loved her and would not care to look at mary he could no more stir in her the emotions that make the sweet of young love than the mere picture of a sun can stir the ing sap in the subtle of the plant she saw him as he was a poor man with old parents to keep who would not be able for a long while to come to ve her even such luxuries as she shared in her uncle s house and dreams were a of to ia a parlor j and a to large beautiful such as were all the fashion to have e round the top of her gown and something to mate her handkerchief smell nice like miss s when she drew it out at church and not to be obliged to get up early or be by any body she thought if adam had been rich and could have given her these she loved him well enough to marry him but for the last few weeks a new influence had come over vague itself into no self confessed hopes or prospects but producing a pleasant making her tread the ground and go about her work in a sort of dream unconscious of weight or and showing her all things through a soft liquid veil as if she were living not in this solid world of brick and stone but in a world such as the sun lights up for us in the waters had become aware that mr arthur would take a good deal of trouble for the chance of seeing her that he always placed himself at church so as to have the fullest view of her both sitting and standing that he was constantly finding reasons for calling at the farm and always would contrive to say something for the sake of making her speak to him and look at him the poor child no more conceived at present the idea that the young squire could ever be her lover than a 