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His face looked full and healthy, but retained a certain delicate sensitiveness of expression that prevented its acquiring an aspect of well-being.
Finch could see the gleam of short golden hairs on his rounded forearms. Eden wore loose gray flannel trousers and a shirt open at the throat, with rolled-up sleeves. A pot in which tea was brewing stood on the warm hearth. The room was filled with the smell of frying bacon. He was almost inside the fireplace.įinch entered without knocking, his canvas shoes making no sound on the stone floor. A figure he recognized as Eden was bent over something in a frying pan. He saw a small room with beamed ceiling and a large fireplace. He saw a table inside set for a simple breakfast, the sunlight falling on a half loaf of bread and a glass pot of raspberry jam. At last, he got up courage to go up the flagged walk, between borders of petunias and pinks, and peer in at the window. He followed the curve of the drive to the gates and stood looking timidly at the house. Someone was astir within, for a blue spiral of smoke rose from the chimney. The ground fell away so abruptly that he looked down on the lodge. The gray trunks of the beeches on either side of the drive were dappled with sunshine, and here and there along the hedge a tall foxglove shook out. The door stood open and warm sunlight had already taken the chill from the hall. No one was about but Ellen, industriously dusting. He slid into his clothes and went downstairs. Rather embarrassing to meet Minny under the conditions. He would be quite a cosmopolitan, after all that time in Europe.
He had not seen Eden for more than a year and a half. If he walked down that way now he might get a sight of him, before Minny was about, for Eden loved the early morning. One of the others was, he remembered - just down the drive at the lodge. Gosh, if only the others were here to see this!’
‘Devonshire cream - that just expresses it. ‘Devonshire cream,’ murmured Finch, lolling on the sill. Ivy lay thick along its top, and clumps of yellow stonecrop. The stone wall had a peculiar golden bloom on it except where there were patches of grayish lichen. He wore corduroys and leggings and his black head was glossy in the sun. Down in the garden, where sunlight and shadow had the sharp distinctness of early morning, he saw the gardener’s boy trimming a box border. It was framed in a climbing rose, with little tight yellow roses clinging there as thick as bees on a honeycomb. Suddenly he jumped out of bed and went to the window. He wondered when he would outgrow it and rather hoped he would not, for there was something he liked in it. Just finding himself alive was often a rather frightening surprise to him. Still, he supposed, they kept it to themselves if they were. George Fennel never seemed surprised, nor Arthur Leigh. He might look in a rage at things, but not surprised. There was Piers - he had got married, got a kid, gone through a good deal, yet he never seemed surprised. He wondered if other fellows felt so surprised at the happenings of their lives. He lay still, feeling flabbergasted at his own achievement. And he had not only done that, but he had brought his two old uncles with him, paid all their expenses out of his own money that Gran had left him, and had set them down safe and sound beside Aunt Augusta. He had traveled the nearly two hundred miles into Devon. He had traveled by train the six hundred miles from Jalna to the New York pier. Here he was, Finch Whiteoak, in the middle of one of Aunt Augusta’s beds, in the middle of one of her bedrooms, in the middle of Lyming Hall, in the heart of Devon. He must make himself believe it, though it seemed impossible to believe. He was in Devon, he realized, in the very depths of its rich, luxuriant roundness that lay on the earth like a nest on a bough. His eyes flew open and he saw the bright chintz of the bed curtains, the wall paper with its prim birds pecking prim cherries, the white mantelpiece with the china figure of a little lady riding a pink horse, and two framed photographs so dim that he could not tell what they represented. FINCH was awakened the next morning by the sound of a man’s voice shouting orders to a dog, by the dog’s barking, in his turn, orders to a flock of sheep, by the troubled baaing of the sheep themselves, and by a gust of wind blowing in at the window and flinging on his face the gathered sweetness of the garden and the fields.
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