"Aren't you very proud of yourself, Jason?" she whispered softly, as she finished.
"Why proud?" said he.
"It's the second time you have done as I have bidden you, and suffered for doing so," she said.
He knew not what reply to make, scarcely realizing which way her question tended. So, feeling very stupid, he said again,
"But why proud?"
"Aren't you, then?" she said. "Because I am proud of you."
They were alone, and he saw her breast heave and her great eyes gleam, and he felt dizzy. At the next instant their hands touched, and then his blood boiled, and before he knew what he was doing he had clasped the beautiful girl in his arms, and kissed her on the lips and cheek. She sprang away from him, blushing deeply, but he knew that she was not angry, for she smiled through her deep rich color, as she fled out of the room on tiptoe. From that hour he troubled his soul no more with fears that he was unworthy of Greeba's love, for he looked at his wound in the glass, and remembered her words, and laughed in his heart.
The Governor was right that there would be no [sale] for arrears of tithe charges. After a scene at Bishop's Court the factor went back to England, and no more was heard of the writs served by the sumner. But wise folks predicted a storm for Adam Fairbrother, and the great people were agreed that his conduct had been the maddest folly.
"He'll have to take the horns with the hide," said Deemster Lace.
"He's a fool that doesn't know which side his bread is buttered," said Mrs. Fairbrother.