Little given as he was to forebodings of evil, when once he was possessed of one it became a certainty.
"Father's fell in the pond and got drowned," he burst out with a great sob.

"What will mother do ?" The boy went forward, stumbling half blindly over the stumps.

Once he fell, bruising his knee severely, and picked himself up, sobbing piteously.

All the child in Jerome had asserted itself.
Beyond the clearing was a stone wall that bounded Abel Edwards's property.

Beyond that was a little grove of old thick-topped pine-trees; beyond that the little woodland pond.