When I went with my mother I had always enjoyed this hour above all others.

All the people we knew crowded around us and greeted us so warmly--every one had such pleasant things to say to us.

Now, if a child came near where we stood, silent and solitary, it was at once called back.

If Miss Reinhart felt it, she gave no indication of such feeling; only once--when three ladies, on their way to their carriages, walked the whole round of the church-yard rather than cross the path on which she stood--she laughed a cynical laugh that did not harmonize with the beauty of her face.
"What foolish, narrow-minded people these country people are!" she said.
"How do you measure a mind ?" I asked, and she answered, impatiently, that children should not talk nonsense.
The worst seemed to have come now.

Some of our best servants left.