'
'And what did Doctor Break do?'
'He got up and pretended to look out of the window, but I saw
his little fat shoulders jerk as if he had the hiccoughs. That was a
triumph. I never suspected him of sensibility.'
'Oh, I wish I'd seen! I wish I'd been you,'said Una, clasping her
hands. Puck rustled and rose from the fern, just as a big blundering
cock-chafer flew smack against Una's cheek.
When she had finished rubbing the place, Mrs Vincey called to
her that Pansy had been fractious, or she would have come long
before to help her strain and pour off.
'It didn't matter,' said Una; 'I just waited. Is that old Pansy
barging about the lower pasture now?'
'No,' said Mrs Vincey, listening. 'It sounds more like a horse
being galloped middlin' quick through the woods; but there's no
road there. I reckon it's one of Gleason's colts loose. Shall I see
you up to the house, Miss Una?'
'Gracious, no! thank you. What's going to hurt me?' said Una,
and she put her stool away behind the oak, and strolled home
through the gaps that old Hobden kept open for her.
Brookland Road
I was very well pleased with what I knowed,
I reckoned myself no fool -
Till I met with a maid on the Brookland Road
That turned me back to school.
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