6/27 But you are quite welcome to a pitcherful." This was the rarest affability of Pet; and he expected extraordinary thanks. "I am very much obliged to you," she said; "but I never asked any one to give it me, unless it is the beck itself; and the beck never seems to grudge it." "You are not like anybody I ever saw. You speak very different from the people about here; and you look very different ten times over." Insie reddened at his steadfast gaze, and turned her sweet soft face away. And yet she wanted to know more. "Different means a great many things. |