These spring days is all blossoms, and they ought to be.

Where ye goin', anyway, that ye're in such a hurry?
Ain't nobody sick up to Cap'n Holt's, be there ?" she added, a shade of anxiety crossing her face.
"No, Martha; it's the dressmaker," answered the doctor, tightening the reins on the restless sorrel as he spoke.

The voice was low and kindly and had a ring of sincerity through it.
"What dressmaker ?" "Why, Miss Gossaway!" His hand was extended now--that fine, delicately wrought, sympathetic hand that had soothed so many aching heads.
"You've said it," laughed Martha, leaning over the wheel so as to press his fingers in her warm palm.

"There ain't no doubt 'bout that skinny fright being 'Miss,' and there ain't no doubt 'bout her stayin' so.

Ann Gossaway she is, and Ann Gossaway she'll die.