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and she did not see his heavy

"Oh-h, what a speech!  Hasn’t that a pretty golden hue?" she asked, holding up a mass of the butter she was ladling from the churn into a wooden tray. "Yes, you are making the gilt-edge article now.  I don’t have to sell it to Tom Watterly any more." "I’d like to give him some, though." […]

had passed between them in this cool

All the associations of the place were pleasant to Alida.  It was here that her husband had shown patience as well as kindness in teaching her how to supplement his work until her own experience and judgment gave her a better skill than he possessed.  Many pleasant, laughing words had passed between them in this […]

I wouldn’t enjoy having anyone here

He shivered visibly. "No, Alida, and you wouldn’t either.  She’d make you more nervous than she would me, and that’s saying a good deal.  I do feel very sorry for her, and if Mrs. Weeks comes to see you, we’ll find out if something can’t be done, but her presence would spoil all our cozy […]

with that flushed face of yours

"He said he was ‘afeared I’d been taken in, you were such a sickly lookin’ critter.’  Ha! Ha!  Wish he might see you now, with that flushed face of yours.  I never believed in magic, but I’ll have to come to it.  You are bewitched, and are being transformed into a pretty young girl right […]

and shades which excluded the glare from

To a superficial observer things might have appeared to be going on much as before, but there were influences at work which Holcroft did not clearly comprehend. As Alida had promised herself, she spent all the money which the eggs brought in, but Holcroft found pretty muslin curtains at the parlor windows, and shades which […]