8/73 I forgive you with all my heart, and I'm sorry I spoke crossly. I have been so very miserable, and I was so vexed at wasting the hose-in-hose, because Bessy's great-aunt gave them to me, and I've none left. Oh, the unkindest thing you could do to me now would be to give away Mary's Meadow." The Old Squire had taken both my hands in his, and now he asked very kindly--"Why, my dear, why don't you want me to give away Mary's Meadow ?" "Because we are so fond of it. And because I was beginning to hope that now we're friends, and you know we don't want to steal your things, or to hurt your field, perhaps you would let us play in it sometimes, and perhaps have Saxon to play with us there. We are so very fond of him too." "You are fond of Mary's Meadow ?" said the Old Squire. |