[The Farringdons by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Farringdons CHAPTER VI 6/25
"I saw them all when they were starting, and there wasn't one face among them that hadn't joy written on every feature in capital letters." "Then in that case they won't be troubling their minds to-day about their religion; they will save it for the gloomy days, as we save narcotics for times of pain.
You may depend upon that." "I'm not so sure: their religion is more of a reality to them than you think," Elisabeth replied. While Alan was thus, enjoying himself in his own fashion, his guests were enjoying themselves in theirs; and as they drove through summer's fairyland, they, too, talked by the way. "Eh! but the May-blossom's a pretty sight," exclaimed Caleb Bateson, as the big wagonettes rolled along the country roads.
"I never saw it finer than it is this year--not in all the years I've lived in Mershire; and Mershire's the land for May-blossom." "It do look pretty," agreed his wife.
"I only wish Lucy Ellen was here to see it; she was always a one for the May-blossom.
Why, when she was ever such a little girl she'd come home carrying branches of it bigger than herself, till she looked like nothing but a walking May-pole." "Poor thing!" said Mrs.Hankey, who happened to be driving in the same vehicle as the Batesons, "she'll be feeling sad and homesick to see it all again, I'll be bound." Lucy Ellen's mother laughed contentedly.
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