This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...Where--where was Anne now? Ah, God's mercy, she was farther away than ever! Never could she catch her.... But she must; must work harder and quicker, must hurry back from dinner, must work late that night, must--must "Ah, my Father," cried Judy, and turning looked piteously towards home, "will dinner ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...Where--where was Anne now? Ah, God's mercy, she was farther away than ever! Never could she catch her.... But she must; must work harder and quicker, must hurry back from dinner, must work late that night, must--must "Ah, my Father," cried Judy, and turning looked piteously towards home, "will dinner-time niver, niver come?" It came at last, that long expected hour of one o'clock, came shouted from the hills and whistled shrilly from the fields; came like an angel's blessed message to Judy and sent her speeding for home. She had far to go and must needs hurry. The way was rough and tortuous, now running over the broken ends of potato-ridges, now winding past bogholes and turf-banks in and out through the heather, now rising suddenly for the hills and going on past the whins and rushes, the hedges and ditches, up through the rain-blanched fields: it was a weary way and Judy was very weary; still, what mattered these things now? Had she not an hour, a whole hour, in which to rest back and bones, and to satisfy the wolves of hunger? Was she not free at last, free if only for an hour, from the tyranny of the sun and the brutality of toil? A whole hour! 'Fifteen minutes home, fifteen back; the rest in blessed luxury on a chair by the table. It was great. What mattered now all that lay there behind--the broad lands, the ugly stubble, the broiling sun, the weariness and heartache; what mattered either all that might happen out there--there beyond that hour of rest, between it and the dark. Let all that go. She was free now. Work was nothing to her. Anne was nothing to her Anne? What was Anne doing? Was she working still? Reluctantly, but inevitably, Judy turned on the crest of Rhamus and had sight of Anne in the valley below, ...
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