She forthwith turned a little
round, for the sun was on her left hand, and with her right eye kept
Priscilla well in view for the rest of the journey.
In the chaise behind pretty much the same story was told, but with a
difference. In the back part were Mr. Thomas Broad and Miss Fanny
Allen. The arrangement which brought these two together was most
objectionable to Mrs. Broad; but unfortunately she was a little late
in starting, and it was made before she arrived. She could not,
without insulting the Allens, have it altered; but she consoled
herself by vowing that it should not stand on the return journey in
the dusk. Miss Fanny was flattered that the minister's son should be
by her side, and the minister's son was not in the least deterred
from playing with Miss Fanny by the weight of responsibility which
oppressed and checked his sister. He did not laugh much; he had not
a nature for wholesome laughter, but he chuckled, lengthened his
lips, half shut his eyes; asked his companion whether the rail did
not hurt her, put his arm on the top, so that she might lean against
it, and talked in a manner which even she would have considered a
little silly and a little odd, if his position, that of a student for
the ministry, had not surrounded him with such a halo of glory.
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