The farm-yard club of Jotham: . Fanny felt his eye fixed on her with a gaze which shedid not understand, and which was so quickly withdrawnthat she hardly felt sure that it was a gaze at all. The child is very bright, I hear, said , said the Squire, and very inscrutable. JohnThomas told me the other day that she was the most mysterious personhe ever knew. Hesays she is alwaysobedient, — obeysin an instant; butalways seems asif she had a rightto take never lies, butyou always feelthat she tells nomore than shemeans to. She isaffectionate, butnot as a child isaffectionate; i
The farm-yard club of Jotham: . Fanny felt his eye fixed on her with a gaze which shedid not understand, and which was so quickly withdrawnthat she hardly felt sure that it was a gaze at all. The child is very bright, I hear, said , said the Squire, and very inscrutable. JohnThomas told me the other day that she was the most mysterious personhe ever knew. Hesays she is alwaysobedient, — obeysin an instant; butalways seems asif she had a rightto take never lies, butyou always feelthat she tells nomore than shemeans to. She isaffectionate, butnot as a child isaffectionate; iskind to those whoare kind to her,but never demonstrates. Thomas saysshe knows no such thing as fear ; wandersaway in the dark, as if she loved its solitude. And whileshe has a half-wild and uncultivated side, is at the sametime filled with a spirit and bearing and natural gracewhich evidently belong to an educated line. It is evidentthat neither Thomas nor his wife understands the child,and that they are both afraid of DR PARKER AND MARGARETVIEWING THE RUINS. THE SMALLER ANLMALS OF THE FARilL. 497 What was her mothers name ? asked Fanny. Margaret, replied the Squire. Margaret what? asked Fanny, with a sharp andsudden energy. Margaret Munroe, answered the Squire. And Fannyturned away with an air of indifference, and with a des-perate purpose to conceal all appearance of emotion. Did you know her, papa . asked Fanny. O yes, said the Squire ; very well. She was veryhandsome when she first came to Jotham to teach thesummer school in the Pond District. I dont rememberwhere she came from. She taught here awhile, justbefore young Parker went to Europe to study medicine,and married Peter Ilsley while he was gone, and forwhat, nobody knew ; for we all thought she might havedone better. But so it was. The old doctor never seemedquite easy about that marriage. Does this child, Margaret, look like her mother .^asked Fanny. Yes, very much, said the Squire. Margaret Munroehad blue e
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