“Ah! every one is kind!” said Cherry, with a little laugh, as he carried away the child, “and we must—say thank you.”
End of Volume One.
Brothers.
“There are none so dependent on the kindness of others as those that are exuberantly kind themselves.”
Chapter Nineteen.
Life and Death.
“As we descended, following hope,
There sat the shadow feared of man.”
Perhaps it was well for the permanence of Cheriton’s new-born happiness that he had but a very short glimpse of Ruth. The next morning, the Oakby party started early, that Mr Lester might arrive in time to attend a magistrate’s meeting at Hazelby, while Ruth remained for the later train that was to take her on her separate visit. She would not give him a chance of seeing her alone, and one look, one clasp of the hand, and—“Remember your promise” was all the satisfaction he obtained from her. Yet he could hardly collect his thoughts to answer his father’s many questions on their journey home, and trying to shout through the noise of the train made him cough so much that his grandmother scolded him for catching such a bad cold.