Sometimes he caught himself
foolishly wishing that suddenly she might develop into a man, the evil
one himself, that he might defy him; and then the softness of her words
would bring shame upon him and he would mutter imprecations against
himself.
"The sun is no longer shining upon it, but in my mind that hill-top will
always glow," she said when they had reached the road. "It must ever
remain a gold-tipped promontory of the past."
"Ma'm, I don't know what you mean."
CHAPTER IX.
AT DRY FORK.
The next day was Sunday, and immediately after breakfast Jasper
announced that he was going "to haul a passel of them" over to church,
the place of worship and of gossip being about five miles distant. And
when everything was made ready, Mrs. Mayfield was delighted to find upon
going out to the gate that they were to be drawn by two enormous oxen.
But Margaret objected. "Thar air two hosses out yander at the stable,
and it is jest one of Jasper's pranks to take these steers," she said.
"And I jest know he's a doin' it to humiliate me.
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