Wych Hazel by Anna Bartlett Warner;Susan Warner
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and also conveying sweeter, finer, more intimate touches of
feeling and mood than tongue could tell if it tried. Wych Hazel remembered this clasp of her hand, and felt it as often as she remembered it. There was nothing sentimental; it was only a frank clasp, in which her hand for a moment was not her own; and though the clasp did not linger, for that second's continuance it gave her an indescribable impression, she could hardly have told of what. It was not merely the gentleness; she could not separate from that the notion of possession, and of both as being in the mind, to which the hand was an index. But such a thought passes as it comes. Something else in those five minutes brought the colour flitting about her face, coming and going as if ashamed of itself; but with it all she was intensely amused; _she_ was not sentimental, nor even serious, and the girlish light heart danced a _pas seul_ to such a medley of tunes that it was a wonder how she could keep step with them all. 'What do you expect to see at Chickaree?' 'Birds, trees, and horses, and--Mr. Falkirk, didn't you say there would be cats?' 'Let him alone--he is deep in your book,' said Rollo, as Mr. Falkirk made some astonished response. "I meant, what do you remember of the place? we are almost at the gate.' 'I'll tell you--nothing yet. Ah!'-- Through some lapse in the dense woodland there gleamed upon |
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