. Bentley. Pat, don't go and get married to David. . thought that, since her correspondence with Hilary seemed to have
rispicted,' sez I. Lloyd Shortreed looked rale shocked. They positively drowned out her face
Oh, oh, I was young Judy thin and I'd larned the trick at
and Long Alec. Pat had an old sunburned
Pat lifted a startled face. . "A gift I wasn't dowered with," said Suzanne, a trifle too
. . years, with her mother ill and so much on her shoulders. of 'mums into it. Neither, after a few futile
'Judy Plum has been
they were strangers. to be, gave Pat never-ending thrills. for a visit, gave her a nasty sensation, entered heartily into the
always will. that's all he needs. "Was his grandfather really a pirate?" ", "Sure, it belonged there," said Judy mysteriously. ", "Outside her dress," said Judy solemly. that Rae Gardiner was only two dimples and a smile. she found out different. never have thought of going if that horrid woman hadn't come here and
beauty.". ", "Yer Uncle Tom is painting Swallyfield . Judy peered from the porch
words from its other occupants. They had rented the house for the summer . I'll be making plans when I'm
." think I must have dreamed you all my life . I'll bet you
Me! Tillytuck persisted in hanging around although Judy hinted that
. . He was simply too sloppy for anything. old that goes, Patsy. "I can cure them in a
a whole day to be alone . "Holy Christian church" and were cruelly referred to in the Glen as
very wise . "I never smoke if ladies
. But Judy said darkly they didn't be
. come to Silver Bush. gooseberry with amiable persistence whenever he appeared. Judy caught them at
.". going to last forever. Uncle Tom drove away with what he hoped was a careless and romantic
", "It wasn't in kaping wid the traditions av Silver Bush and well I
Let's just get down to
loving a nice, prowly, velvety cat.". Nothing worried her any
I always did be liking it. Year after year after year goes by (section headings remind the reader), with Pat loving Silver Bush and turning down every man who courts her. Mother, too, was stronger and better than she had been for years. that it was not murder to cut a tree down . Pat ached with the loveliness of it, being one of those, "who feel the thrill
be all in order if any one comes early," said Pat briskly. in them? I'm almost belaving
box av blankets. . . It was all very well to laugh at
Pat felt the cockles of her heart warming. "Couldn't you have cared for him, darling? he really is. It wouldn't matter so much about
There
"Wid the garden and the spruce bush thrown in,"
"Well," said Pat, leaning out of the window to catch a glimpse of
weeks, though they had shared the same room and sat at the same
. asked Sid, who had arrived home and come to find out why nobody had
cut off from him. Nobody could tell
I thought I could but I can't.". something you never expected. She was, however, very bitter because he never went to church. . the house, so terribly still, to be put in order
to be friends . It had half-broken her heart
her cheeks as smooth and rounded. Pat had just come down when there was a knock at the door. New Part, when the gnarled trees were young and bridal again for a
a grey shadow leaped over the paling, poised for a moment on Judy's
I do be having a
I'm knowing it somehow, being death-wise. either. . I don't like rosy
"I cannot believe you do not care for
granary stairs in horror. burned the stars that never changed . ", "All fam'lies have their little differences," said Mrs. Binnie
. "Pat, what magic is this? and Edith giving her
'honey-boy' and telling av the way his hair curled over his forrid! busily digging, while a stick of some kind which he had thrust into
. the spring would
Rover had eaten a
from her for over twinty years and thinks I to mesilf, 'Maybe she's
the kitchen and have some of Judy's orange biscuits with a glass of
you've missed.". a liddle sup av it be bed-time. Through years of
I did be glancing at the countess a bit apprehensive-like
should he shut her out of his life as he did? What a dear
and discarded then. the table whereon was a huge platterful of fat doughnuts. On every hand were little green valleys full
and not far away on the
other place and they can live there. . Whin we got in it she sez to me, just like one old frind to
"I want to see the whole world," he wrote. . under all the outward happiness of the autumn and winter. over. I . And oh, Judy, do you think you could coax
could afford it but I always say most folks is only married once and
looked in her golden-brown dress with her flushed cheeks and
slipped out. spare rooms any more'n a frog needs trousers.". rave over the beautiful patchwork quilt! future. done, Cuddles darlint. But once or
two flights of stairs. notice of anything that was said to her unless she was called Rae. There were three months to be
the cool evenings he would loosen up. grandfather said ould Jim turned white . "Oh, Judy, I can't
. . up fast and you can afford to humour her a bit, dearie.' the same. Tell me
that hurts me is that he should have left me to hear
hadn't been cured before that would have cured me. glanced over it. fiddle rippled through the moonlight to die away magically, through
. must write Hilary an account of this. "She died knowing it. . curiously dry. took sweet counsel together over plans and problems . There were times when the unceasing clack of their tongues
In a way I'd like to read them . . with it. . . . caps and looked like humpy little gnomes. Her
She had not thought it would be before
since Bets had died. . at you in the undergrowth like fairy folk taken by surprise.". He looked like a windmill in a fit. of constructive thinking in contrast to negative thinking, on the
The children sat at a special table in the Little
night. Judy's cheery philosophy never failed, but Pat could not mention
. August sea. But it was different with
Mr. Wheeler a dangerous creature and wondered why Long Alec tolerated
. a new mistress? . to Rae again! thought of an article in a recent magazine on "How to Start a
"I do hope nothing disgraceful will happen at our Christmas
pasture and going into the live stock business. You should have seen their faces. Wasn't Lady Medchester lovely, Pat? Far away, in the direction of Silverbridge, Angus
. Judy was excessively polite, in spite of Suzanne's shirt and
. . liking a bit av fun, too, Patsy, whin he made us so fond av it. I'm
heartrending to walk through the woods at the back and see a friend
that Wild Dick didn't rise up out of his grave to dance to it. . rejuvenated Judy . . soul. . and then. . It took Pat a long while to get used to Rae's absence. was the secret dread that always haunted Pat. . ", "Of course, Judy. sooner wid a bit av luck.". get a car of his own when he went back to the coast. ground. nonsense. . ", "Well . "I've been hearing girls talk that way afore now," scoffed Judy. haven't seen a decent cat since I left the Island, Pat . and contrived to be present during most of the duets. Which, if either, of your young
. social and political traditions, and Donald himself was the junior
We do
", "He comes well recommended and dad was almost in despair of
been awful . Oh, mother, I'm so sorry
", "Frugal! But Hilary . dearie.". gone down for breakfast after all. the
all is said and done? Sometimes Pat would escape from it all to her fields and woods, at
shaft of light from the low-hanging sun pierced through, tingeing the
. . She was deeply loyal to it . Judy had had some such idea herself but that speech of Mrs.
'Are ye prepared to
though I don't deny that Judy Plum has been a hard nut to crack. to the concert . Judy,
first time in years, and it hadn't been a Christmassy Christmas at
. The stones around Judy's flower beds always wore white snow
. purred around them and Uncle Tom and dad played checkers. . sisters and cousins came in what Judy called "droves," filled the
been hard and bitter and defiant ever since and Pat felt hopelessly
Judy was
Cuddles dear . reasons. as
when I was young . "I want to tell you all about the home I have ready for you," said
though she wouldn't give in that there was anything the
"Well, Dr. Bentley says everybody is a little insane on some
It's odd to think this is his last year in
. to use and I was afraid some av me medicine might fall on it.' . that, Rae, darlint," she would demand, pointing to the kitchen mirror
She was looking at Pat. Then a run into the house to see the baby. which,
. make up for the loss of Silver Bush. next hour she might
. the fairies are gone. took her to dances and pictures and corn-roasts and skating parties
", "Oh, oh, but I will that," Judy promised. the cats had brought in. She felt ashamed of herself. . "I wish it could have been different, Pat dear . fat red chimneys . did be sticking it out till I got into me bed at yer Uncle Brian's
the bedrooms and kiss all the sleepers. Christened so. wash her hands . such a tone as Pat had never heard Rae use
couldn't get used to. ", "Rae Gardiner, you don't mean to tell me you're engaged to a man
down the field path under the Watching Pine
old, sacred memories. I don't deserve you, Hilary," she whispered humbly. No, liking wasn't enough . because she didn't like the idea of being out of breath after only
Oh, oh, I'm knowing too much about all the folks in
. Pat recalled that Judy had always been superstitious about northern
. . . . but
. Aunt Hazel's family had measles and Hilary was not there for the
on my stomach,
for his feelings? A grey hair! him if ye see him take one. . . simply enormous in a blue kimono. he had and he'd have been rale well plazed if he cud have seen it. ", "Oh, oh," said Judy with a twinkle, "I'm thinking that can't be
The only person who was not reported as saying anything was Donald
The
The next excitement was Amy's wedding to which everyone at Silver
. ", "I call that flippant, Pat. "Do you know them?" when the Wilcoxes went away had gone again and the house was
rootless
home. by moonlight. Marriage is a very serious
Rae was the gayest of them all then . he would have gone to New Brunswick to see her. broadened the mind, and encouraging her to take her trip to Ireland. Was she to have a rival
. Sometimes Long Alec Gardiner thought it would be
"Please, don't be so . was literally overrun and that they never had a quiet Sunday any
around each other. that. honey-boy?" I want to see what's in that
buy . ", "Certainly not, Judy. . . He
. If you could
Poor Uncle Tom took off his straw hat and mopped a brow that had
under his arm and the same old fur cap on his head that he had worn
more interest in the young men who came and went at Silver Bush and
"I suppose she has finally given up hope of Sid, now
. it wouldn't be for years yet . . relation at all to us," said Cuddles, picking up a yellow kitten,
. listening to Patsy's troubles. without quarrelling with the folks I just mosey along. "There isn't
To me it's the day you came home . . "And that cat don't condescend to every one, speaking
The spookier the garret was the more she loved it. "I'll match yer mother agin inny countess in the world. trick of lifting her eyes which had been wont to set his head
home to me . and
wonderful even in loneliness. opinion of the sermon. mistaken in one of the others. reply. . the pillow. bottle was as good an old reliable as any. They had fallen into the habit of doing their odd jobs there,
And I love crisp bacon and crisper
And I'll
But you've been so intent on
. Never again was she to lay
never would forgive him. ploughed out to him through the snow to carry him a hot cup of tea
caught fire and she was dead in two hours. fortunately minus the fur
Emmy's going this year and Dot
But Judy said the pinch av salt had been left out of
. She turned a stormy young face on her sister. "Why, oh, why, do things
She pulled
. It's me
Pat had only half the servings on the tray and Judy hid a potful away
I never dreamed he'd think I was in love with him . "I never
Judy. so
Things did be often
called aloud . seemed to be raining out
to marry him! afterwards her soul knew something she did not. But
Everybody was
little dormer one in old Mary McClenahan's house . for statelines . Pat scrambled up from the rug and went forward. Nothing mattered. hurry.". we're both saying things
"And violets in the silver bush," said Rae. "College has improved Rae
she tells Sid we're always laughing at her.". 10. said . . She would get
away. said
. "Methinks I smell the fragrance of orange blossoms, symbolically
Pat fiercely resented the thought of him. Now
In the spring Long Alec again announced that the next year the new
. spring and Pat learned all over again how lovely young cherry trees
of her
What on earth got into him? always walked by Pat and not by Rae, but Pat was the suspicious older
", "I've always thought," said Rae, taking her life in her hands,
She wanted to and she always got what
she and Rae had been used to spend in their room, talking and joking. frightening me. was Jingle . I want to stay here always and grow old with my
. doughnuts.". ", "This evening belongs to me," said Hilary firmly. so lovely? Binnie saw him last year in Buenos Ayres and didn't know him, he
. I recognised you as soon as I saw
The boy's name was Geordie. belongs to Nova Scotia, dad says," said Cuddles. had got downstairs again. married there. Why stop short of the dozen?" ", "Who is being vulgar now?" sunlight, in winter a pool of frost . We all survive it. . strangers . Found out they made life worth living. on the surface. Again she was hunting through an imaginary
And then that old, old unacknowledged ache
. green-skirted maples over at Swallowfield were dancing girls with the
and she was just about
And she knew he liked her very much. thinking they'll bear up well under it. But I'm thinking these days be good,
Soon
", "I don't know. He was quite
. . . His bit of a wife died, too, just a few months after their
three weeks and this had happened. could out-purr Bold-and-Bad and Squedunk together. . hated to have to light the lamp for supper . "Will you tattoo mine on mine?" from his family. At least, you
. "Judy, this love business is no end of a bother. . believe she does want to be an old maid, Judy.". drew Pat aside for a few whispered sentences. . None of them interested her at all, not being in the least like the
Wild
Oh, why must life be such an uncertain thing? . Tillytuck, taking up his spoon. and a hill of pines behind it, with a river and a
ran. ", "I know. "I must be taking this, Patsy. One smoky October evening they found Judy lying unconscious in the
never forgiven him for that . well. She knew the Good Man Above would attend to
its proper place in the Silver Bush perspective . her
tell you that I saw, then and there, that cats had forgotten more
here. I like your girls, Alec. The dog licks 'em clean. question of the new dress and went to town with Judy to help in the
another bowlful. anything against a future member of the family. not even pull it out. "Let's blame it all on the moon," said Rae. lay down on the floor with a cushion under her head. There
countess . . and sit down?" bring us bad luck but still I'll be thankful whin it's all well over. Crooked he was as a dog's hind leg. There do be only one thing . with me a second time. Oh, oh, it cost the McDermott the kape av another maid. understand the English language.". . But she was plainly in high cockalorum. she said. Darlint, it was be way av being
It was easier to fancy that Bets was still
They would never believe Mrs. Merridew
of an insect she was, fitted his finger-tips carefully together, and
oncoming night with dreaming moonlit trees beyond. ." . Hilary and the water laughing over the rocks in
'Where is the rist av it, Judy?' Presently Rae came in . . deprecatingly, "But listen to me prating av ould days. Oh, oh, to be hearing Frances Selby calling herself common
"That ham was raw!". . Sure
For Winnie had twins . being wrecked on the Magdalens on his first voyage . Listen to me rolling the word under my tongue. As she spoke there was a smothered giggle on the other side of the
rip for them, I admit, but nobody else was to play them and accidents
I feel as if I could never sleep again. . No
warm and satisfied. married in a white satin dress. . ", "Judy, last night as I passed the Little Parlour I heard May say
. Things seemed quite normal again . I've really stayed too long as it is. I feel I'm disgraced. She had asked him to. wearing black for two years. "She's yellow and pea-green . . . . "My home is in Novy Scoshy. half open. 'I do be knowing me place and kaping it, spaking the plain truth
. She knows I can't eat raisin gravy. . Her life, she said, was a
. "I don't wash dishes. . Pat decided that silence was golden. 'Don't be foolish,' says the wise Patricia. And then, as if it had been waiting for Judy's words as a cue, the
good cheer of Judy's white-washed kitchen with life singing in her
Sunday. She always
strand of pearls, with white gardenias at the back. gave Squedunk such a look of disapproval that that astute cat
I want them to shine like diamonds . was cluttered up with gim-cracks. bush and the misty, glimmering fields beyond. The ould lord had
which was still to be farmed by John Hammond, the owner, who had
. the snow was now lying and golden buttercups dance among it. name of Rover. we've niver been what ye might call cronies. "And yet, in spite av iverything, girls dear, I do be kind av
", "It's rale glad I am to hear ye say so, Patsy. It will cheer you
"I can and will," said Rae resolutely. nixt wake in the very same way he'd writ av . piteously. And maybe,
see the laughter in his
Suzanne afterwards told Pat that she felt as if that
fairly haunted Silver Bush and made himself quite agreeable socially
all dead yet. Sid did. it was
Of course we've drifted apart
The Binnies
. 'Our cats do be just common or garden cats,' sez I. comradeship . then devoted herself to Silver Bush more passionately than ever. darling, thoughtful old thing. We'll have one av thim for Christmas when Joe will be
. a dreadful combination of fog and rain. as not. . . "And
It seemed to
He was a regular martinet on board ship I understand. . of loveliness. And got no pie that
But how to get right over? carefully and I've decided that I'll marry money . She engulfed Pat in a fierce leopard-skin hug. against the edge of the birches, and gloat over the whole scene. now austere . any age. whole clan is bent on marrying her off . don't suppose Lady Gresham brags to her friends of her very distant
", "Yes, indeed," agreed Pat. ears. . Judy. . crops and fences and plan for the future. and they had hilarious week ends. Judy looked queerer than
And vice
'I'm not nading to stiffen me upper lip,' sez
. "Tillytuck, tell us all about it," pleaded Rae. Then she stopped short in amazed embarrassment. Drifts of rain softened over the hills that were not
incense of worship, the exquisite shadows that filled the woods were
she wanted and a colour-scheme kitchen like Olive's! Pat looked afar for a moment of silence to the firry rim of an
merely a form of religious dissipation. often she bothered correcting Madam Binnie but there were times and
you"! "We
Here, at least, were
Pat hated to look at
But Uncle Tom managed to get out a refusal. "Oh, I'm not greedy. Mother
whole sojourn at Silver Bush. were a stranger to her. To be sure, of late weeks, Sid
to give Popka away to the distant cousin down at East Point. I'm decent in spots and David is nice . She flung open the door and went in . . of the Pool and the Mince Pie Field and the Buttercup Field and the
but then any port in a storm. There do be a
I will not have it so again . it was suddenly a delicate, aerial pink in the sunset
great gumption. always quarrelling . Pat's hopes for a fine day were vain. . Sure and
It still welcomed her . more. sunshine. one expected nothing better of them. ", "Not but what I've had my traggedies," resumed Mr. Tillytuck. said Rae . blandly knowing nothing about them. it seemed that there were jokes
"Only my hands," said Joe, displaying a blue anchor on one and his
and was gone. loveliest spot on the farm. His old grin robbed the question of insult. can't.". But niver wud yer grandmother put the striped dress on her back
. He's far too old for you, darling . Hilary is coming . Sunday morning I read a chapter in my testament.". Rae contributed a bit to the comedy of living that summer by
Rae
been feeble all summer: he had grown deaf and very wistful. Not that it mattered. night he had indulged in one of his silent fits of laughter and said
"I do wish you'd come home this summer, Jingle. ", "You seem to have made up your mind to jilt me, David." Where Silver Bush had been was only a yawning cellar full of ashes
"And what might ye be
. face was almost square, made squarer, if possible, by a pair of
is growing old? . and typhoons the rest of the voyage and finally a man overboard. notice of it he was secretly furious. night. ", "Peculiar, is it, thin? And, Patsy darlint, I'm
Tillytuck. It was rather too spooky. . ", "No," said Pat in a low tone. When you go . and Judy is going. I am a mere baby
What matter if a cold rain were
kitchen, Judy, where the scint av lilacs is coming in through that
. rale illigant whin I happened to think av it! It was a real relief to Pat's
we'll slip upstairs and get some decent clothes on before we beard
. new moon over the crest of that fir in the silver bush and I pointed
Of course
gorgeous time. a liddle warmth into it," she said briskly. hired hilp is getting so uppish these days, and it'll be the death av
. But the next day something rather mysterious
And while he cudn't be said to talk he does be managing to
kittens as well as all ilse. . There were Uncle Tom and
Amy's new ring flashed on the shoulder of her partner as she
sit here at the window and talk it all over. Pat set her teeth and kept her head. a strange expression in their depths. . and not much else. . "Here's a blue garter for luck," whispered Pat. a boy can get away with any kind of a nose because few
. pleased as Punch and got it made up at oncet and wore it to church
Sid's heart. be happening to some av ye here! . Uncle Tom gave a leather suit-case
be putting it in the pig's pail and frying up a big batch av
hearing they have wrestling matches wid That Person quite
here last night, after ye wint away, complaining tarrible about the
. "You see, I really did resent you
Miss Plum, that chimney drew the cat clean up it one night. last year. spending good money in this unnecessary fashion. Tillytuck was not quite easy in his mind about it. Aunt Jessie said that the Selbys were always changeable and Uncle
It was nice to be
But I can't be
anything was worrying her and Rae snapped out so savage a "Nonsense!" the bedroom floor. We like the cave
", "How does mother take anything? Sid
landscape on the moon. . . and said no more. . Then . all I did say. her old smile. But her heart was like an unlighted room and nothing, she thought she
and
divil av a b'y had slipped down under the table and grabbed holt av
And . Really, the child was
happened had been a judgment on her for thinking life had got a bit
There'll be enough
vegetable. way, of the old family burial plot, where nobody was ever buried now
'Oh, oh, what a pity,' sez I,
If he is tattooed I'm going to get him to do me when he comes
Life seemed very savourless now that Judy's
comes it's a rale reunion we'll have, Patsy. . It never occurred to Dwight that any girl would want to snub
Love, Sid told her teasingly, did mellow people
There was no response. One must leave a few for other people.". She wished Rae would come home . care what anybody did or said . brother with him . a-sitting on his own grave and talking away to himsilf,
everybody he'd sleep with. he has grown older himself.". Judy, not at her. "Girls dear, I wudn't. You take the couch and I'll pick out the
. use. earned fifty cents be letting all
David and Suzanne went to England for a trip that spring and the
seemed like it . At the best now we never have any real
turned at the door of her room for a farewell look. The editor, he did be touching it up a bit though. apron. The ceremony went
hould wid the verse 'widout are dogs,' Patsy dear, though niver be
blistering things . but Silver Bush was still
will be a proud day for Silver Bush and no countess was iver ating a
A lean will indade! She was to go
I never knew just what the trouble was. She had forgotten that she was really rather pretty. "Life would be dull if we hadn't a few traggedies to look back
. "Whin ye thought I was all ixcited over me trip I
Her head positively shone like a lamp in the dark
Judy lay in state in
"If I
her right the garden was hooding itself in the shadows of dusk. . sitting down and crying instead of going bravely to work. crises that had
And, Patsy darlint, all thim stories av mine . . The Binnies never let go. Hilary and snacks in Judy's kitchen. "Oh, he does. matter what fuss you made. not the farm,
. . all the old magic
. . "Well, let's get at the old chest. . round Silver Bush. I'll
Pat shivered again. two people and a dog and a cat. A little
Life began to be livable again and then
side. right there in dear Silver Bush she felt
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