[Pembroke by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]@TWC D-Link book
Pembroke

CHAPTER XII
9/52

She never went anywhere else, her rosy color had gone, and she looked old and haggard.
Barney went into his sister's now and then of a Sunday night, and sat with her and William an hour or so.

He and William would sometimes warm into quite an animated discussion over politics or theology, while Rebecca sat silently by.

Barney went nowhere else, not even to meeting.

Sundays he used to watch furtively for Charlotte to go past with her father and mother.

Quite often Sylvia Crane used to appear from her road and join them, and walk along with Charlotte.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books