The noise of the carriage-wheels died in the distance.
Verty remained for some moments gazing after it; then he rose, and
shaking hands with the pitying Fanny, who had lost all her merriment,
got slowly into the saddle and returned.
He had expected a day of happiness and laughter with Redbud, basking
in the fond light of her eyes, and rambling by her side for happy
hours.
He had seen her with fevered cheek and hand, go away from him sick and
suffering.
His arms hanging down, his chin resting on his breast, Verty returned
slowly to the office, sighing piteously--even Longears seemed to know
the suffering of his master, and was still and quiet.
CHAPTER XLIV.
IN WHICH THE HISTORY RETURNS TO APPLE ORCHARD.
Having devoted much space in the foregoing pages to those scenes,
descriptive, grotesque, and sentimental, which took place at the Bower
of Nature and Winchester, it is proper that we should now go back to
the domain of Apple Orchard, and the inhabitants of that realm, so
long lost sight of in the contemplation of the graces and attractions
of Miss Sallianna, and the various planets which hovered in the wake
of that great feminine sun of love and beauty.
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