List of Illustrations.

[She stopped a moment when she came upon the bridge. (Frontispiece)]
[She made a long job of her bunch of holly.]
["I wasn't thinking of myself in particular."]
["Who's got it now, Cynthy?"]
[Fleda coloured and looked at her grandfather.]
[Fleda was sitting, her face bowed in her hands.]
[She stood back and watched.]
[Then he seated himself beside her.]
[The children were always together.]
["He is not a pug."]
["They will expect me at home."]
["Well, sir, you know the road by Deacon Patterson's?"]
["O uncle Rolf, don't have anything to do with him."]
["Look at these roses, and don't ask me for papers!"]
[She knelt down before him.]
["How lovely it is, Hugh!"]
[Philetus was left to "shuck" and bring home a load of the fruit.]
["And there goes Mr. Carleton!" said Constance.]
[Fleda saw with a start that it was Mr. Carleton.]
["I am sure Mr. Thorn will excuse me."]
["My dear child," he said, holding her face in both his hands.]
[Mrs. Rossitur sat there alone.]
[Barby's energies and fainting remedies were again put in use.]
[Then he stood and watched her.]
["Well, take your place," said Thorn.]
["I told him, 'O you were not gone yet!'"]
["How are they all at home?"]
["Is this the gentleman that's to be your husband?"]
[Slowly and lingeringly they moved away.]