Goslings by J. D. Beresford
Author:J. D. Beresford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dreamscape Media LLC
Published: 2018-05-30T11:35:01+00:00
XIII.
DIFFERENCES
1
The only side road they could find proved to be no more than a track through the little wood. They almost passed it a second time, and hesitated at the gateâa sturdy five-barred gate bearing âPrivateâ on a conspicuous labelâdebating whether this âcould be right.â They still suffered a spasm of fear at the thought of trespass, and to open this gate and march up an unknown private road pushing a hand-cart seemed to them an act of terrible aggression.
âWe might leave the cart just inside,â suggested Blanche.
âAnd get our food stole,â said Mrs Gosling.
âThereâs no one about,â urged Blanche.
âThereâs that broomstick woman,â said Millie. âShe may have followed us.â
âIâm sure I dunno if itâs safe to go foraginâ in among them trees, neither,â continued Mrs Gosling. âAre you sure this is right, Blanche?â
âWell, of course, Iâm not sure,â replied Blanche, with a touch of temper.
They peered through the trees and listened, but no sign of a house was to be seen, and all was now silent save for the long drone of innumerable bees about their afternoon business.
âOh! come on!â said Blanche at last. She was rapidly learning to solve all their problems by this simple formula....
In the wood they found refuge from those attendant flies which had hung over them so persistently.
Mrs Gosling gave a final flick with her handkerchief and declared her relief. âItâs quite pleasant in âere,â she said, âafter the âeat.â
The two girls also seemed to find new vigour in the shade of the trees.
âWe have got a cheek!â said Millie, with a giggle.
âWell! needs must when the devil drives,â returned Mrs Gosling, âand our circumstances is quite out of the ordinary. Besides which, there canât be any âarm in offerinâ to buy a glass of milk.â
Blanche tugged at the trolley handle with a flicker of impatience. Why would her mother be so foolish? Surely she must see that everything was different now? Blanche was beginning to wonder at and admire the marvel of her own intelligence. How much cleverer she was than the others! How much more ready to appreciate and adapt herself to change! They could not understand this new state of things, but she could, and she prided herself on her powers of discrimination.
âEverythingâs different now,â she said to herself. âWe can go anywhere and do anything, almost. Itâs like as if we were all starting off level again, in a way.â She felt uplifted: she took extraordinary pleasure in her own realization of facts. A strange, new power had come to her, a power to enjoy life, through mastery. âEverythingâs different now,â she repeated. She was conscious of a sense of pity for her mother and sister.
2
The road through the wood curved sharply round to the right, and they came suddenly upon a clearing, and saw the house in front of them. It was a long, low house, smothered in roses and creepers, and it stood in a wild garden surrounded by a breast-high wall of red brick. At the edge
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