Vulgar, at the same time, he would have thought and
felt her, but for the love that made him do her justice. Love is the
opener as well as closer of eyes. But men who, having seen, become
blind again, think they have had their eyes finally opened.
For some time there was no change in Eppy's behaviour but that she
was not tearful as before. She continued diligent, never grumbled at
the hardest work, and seemed desirous of making up for remissness in
the past, when in truth she was trying to make up for something else
in the present: she would atone for what she would not tell, by
doing immediate duty with the greater devotion. But by and by she
began occasionally to show, both in manner and countenance, a little
of the old pertness, mingled with uneasiness. The phenomenon,
however, was so intermittent and unpronounced, as to be manifest
only to eyes familiar with her looks and ways: to Donal it was clear
that the relation between her and Forgue was resumed. Yet she never
went out in the evening except sent by her grandmother, and then she
always came home even with haste--anxious, it might have seemed, to
avoid suspicion.
It was the custom with Donal and Davie to go often into the fields
and woods in the fine weather--they called this their observation
class--to learn what they might of the multitudinous goings on in
this or that of Nature's workshops: there each for himself and the
other exercised his individual powers of seeing and noting and
putting together.
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