. A family flight around home. LARCH CONES. 82 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. CHAPTER IX. AN A LICE and Hubert became, perforce,constant companions ; not so muchfrom any great congeniality, as by strengthof circumstances. Hubert felt himself greatlysuperior to the country girl, who, in spiteof certain airs and graces acquired at school,was lacking in polish, and whose pronuncia-tion of some words was a constant surpriseto him. Alice, on the other hand, while shestood in awe of Huberts fine manners, andsomewhat dainty ways, held her own very well. She had no ideaof being patronized, a
. A family flight around home. LARCH CONES. 82 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. CHAPTER IX. AN A LICE and Hubert became, perforce,constant companions ; not so muchfrom any great congeniality, as by strengthof circumstances. Hubert felt himself greatlysuperior to the country girl, who, in spiteof certain airs and graces acquired at school,was lacking in polish, and whose pronuncia-tion of some words was a constant surpriseto him. Alice, on the other hand, while shestood in awe of Huberts fine manners, andsomewhat dainty ways, held her own very well. She had no ideaof being patronized, and if on any occasion there seemed dangerof his getting the better of her, in points of etiquette or goodgrammar, she readily turned the tables on him by exposing hisutter ignorance concerning all country things. The science of thebarn, the hen-coop, and the farm was one in which she was wellversed, while he had not even studied its rudiments. Mr. Martin, the father of Alice, owned a large farm, and withthe help of many men, took care of it himself. As the springopened, Hubert spent most of the ti
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