Happiness Hill by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill [Hill, Grace Livingston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-62836-375-3
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

For three weeks the weather was perfect at the shore, even when the city was sometimes unbearable for two or three days at a time. Even when other days thunderstorms tore over the city threatening destruction and the two questioned whether the drive down was going to be possible, yet always by night they tried it and found lovely weather by the sea.

The invalid had been persuaded to stay the month out, through the combined efforts of his family, his doctor who drove down to visit him, Sherwood, and the letter from the office, which in spite of Jane’s fears had been couched in such cordial terms, accompanied by a check so unprecedentedly large, that for the time being his own dread was set at rest; and he had enjoyed himself and gained in health greatly.

It was not until the September storms set in and a wild southeaster came tearing up the cost, that the family by the sea decided that the time had come to go back to the city. So, after reserving their little cottage for the next summer, they began to pack up.

Jane, as she went about in the evening the last day of September, gathering up things and making sure that nothing was going to be forgotten, reflected regretfully that the good time was all over and now a new order of things would set in. There would be no more of those long delightful rides morning and evening, no more comradeship such as she had known with Sherwood and her brother and sister. All would be different in town. And—next week Lauderdale was coming again! Her heart quickened a little at that and the color stole into her cheeks. Why did she dread his coming just a little? Which Lauderdale would come? The one she had known in the mountains, or the one who had been so rude and domineering?

Jane and Sherwood took all they could carry in their flivver when they went up the next morning, and Tom, whose vacation had ended some two weeks earlier, got the day off to take the rest of the family home later in the day.

An hour after Jane and Sherwood had taken a last wistful look at the sea, the beach, the sand dunes shrouded in autumn rain, and the little sweet cottage that had grown so dear to them, and had driven away into the wind and storm, the little putt-putt-putting motor boat came in with the morning mail and brought a long official-looking letter addressed to Mr. George Arleth.

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