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Flora Klickmann. Between the Larch-woods and the Weir
Between the Larch-woods and the Weir
Table of Contents
I. Preamble
II. Enter Eileen
III “You Never Know”
IV. The Hill-Side Trail
V. Just Outside the Back-Door
VI. Dwellers in the Flower-Patch
VII. Only Small Talk
VIII. A Cold Snap
IX. Snowdrifts
X. Footprints
XI. Exit Eileen
XII. The Old Wood-House
XIII. Abigail’s “Lonely Sailor”
XIV. The Bonfire
XV. The Meeting at the Cottage
XVI. Moon-Gold in the Garden
XVII. The Carillon of the Wilds
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Flora Klickmann
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I hadn’t been exactly planning to take on an orphan at that time: they are proverbial for their appetites, and the butcher’s book hadn’t led my thoughts in that particular direction, any more than the dairyman’s weekly bill. All the same, when Mrs. Griggles showed me how plain my duty lay before me, naturally I said: “Send her and her grandmother round to see me this evening.” I was even more anxious to see the grandmother than the girl; for I had long ago given up all hope of ever meeting again such a phenomenon (or perhaps it should be phenomena, being feminine) as a woman who was clean as well as respectful!
They arrived promptly. The grandmother seemed a sensible, hard-working body, who had migrated from Devonshire to London when she married; for over forty years she had lived, or rather existed, in the back-drifts of our great city with never a glimpse of her native village. Yet——
