Susy, A Story of the Plains, Bret Harte [pride and prejudice read txt] 📗

rade winds by the oppositeside of the court. But Susy did not seem inclined to linger therelong that morning, in spite of Mrs. Peyton's evident desire for amaternal tete-a-tete. The nervous preoccupation and capriciousennui of an indulged child showed in her pretty but discontentedface, and knit her curved eyebrows, and Peyton saw a look of painpass over his wife's face as the young girl suddenly and half-laughingly broke away and fluttered off towards the old garden.

Mrs. Peyton looked up and caught her husband's eye.

"I am afraid Susy finds it more dull here every time she returns,"she said, with an apologetic smile. "I am glad she has invited oneof her school friends to come for a visit to-morrow. You know,yourself, John," she added, with a slight partisan attitude, "thatthe lonely old house and wild plain are not particularly lively foryoung people, however much they may suit YOUR ways."

"It certainly must be dull if she can't stand it for three weeks inthe year," said her husban