She turned her head away farther and farther from Mrs.Bell, looking over the railing of the stoop toward the white roses.

In a minute or two she got up suddenly from her seat, and still keeping her face averted from Mrs.Bell, she went in by the stoop door into the house, and disappeared.

In about ten minutes she came round the corner of the house, at the place where Mary Bell was playing, and with a radiant and happy face, and tones as joyous as ever, she told her little charge that they would have one game of hide and go seek, in the asparagus, and that then it would be time for her to go to bed.
Two days after this, Albert closed the bargain for his land, and began his work upon it.

The farm, or rather the lot, for the farm was yet to be made, consisted of a hundred and sixty acres of land, all in forest.

A great deal of the land was mountainous and rocky, fit only for woodland and pasturage.