Ralph Henry Barbour

Name: The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1
Author: Ralph Henry Barbour

The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

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“The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1”, published in 1911, is a work by Ralph Henry Barbour. It explores elements such as Myra, Fairfax and Elise.

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

“ I set Fairfax down and he gave himself a shake and trotted back to Aunt Myra and Elise, waving his tail in triumph. Fairfax never acknowledges defeat; he is very exasperating.
The porter took us out to our cab and the station returned to its normal condition. Aunt Myra had several things to say about Fairfax on the way across town and several things to say about me. The undignified, unladylike manner in which I had raced around a public railroad station was mortifying in the extreme.
“Well, someone had to do it,” I said. “Elise hasn't the first instinct of a sportsman. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

“ On our way to the train I thought I saw Fairfax's rescuer ahead of us in the crowd, but couldn't be sure. They hadn't begun running the parlor car yet and that annoyed Aunt Myra somewhat. She's very fond of parlor cars, even though she always protests against the expense. But even Aunt Myra's dumps and the dirty, rickety, antiquated day-coach couldn't spoil my pleasure at getting back to Eastmeadows. I suppose the Groves blood predominates in me, for New England always seems much more like home to me than either Washington or Virginia. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

“ Larry's real name is Laurence Laurence Groves Pryde. He is twenty years old and is a junior at Harvard. Larry is a real Pryde. He is big, like the Major, and very good looking, and has a haughty, aristocratic air—when he doesn't forget it—that the girls find tremendously fetching. Then there's me, Marjorie Pryde. I'm not really a Pryde at all; I'm a Groves. I'm small, like mamma, and I have light hair that is almost straw color, and I lack repose. Aunt Myra says so twenty times a day, so I guess it must be so. I have brown eyes and altogether too much color for a blonde. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

“ So we went by train, just Aunt Myra and Elise and I and Lord Fairfax. Elise is my maid and Lord Fairfax is my cat. He's a beauty, a blue Angora with just the longest, silkiest hair I ever saw on a cat. He's a good deal of a villain, though, for he will eat his hair, which is very bad for his digestion, and he will run away. Elise has a great deal of trouble with him.
We took the Federal Express and got into Boston very early in the morning, and while the porter went to find us a cab, Elise took Fairfax for a walk around the station. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

“ They had a special car on the eight o'clock train and there was an ambulance over from Salem to take the crazy feller in.”
“But that is awful!” cried Aunt Myra. “Think of having an insane person right next door! I shan't sleep a wink to-night, Peter! Something will have to be done about it. Nobody has any right to rent a house in a respectable locality to an insane person.” ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

“ Just when we thought we had run Fairfax to earth, under a bench in the corner of the waiting room, someone came in and, before we could tell him to close the door, Fairfax had shot out of it. “Tally-ho!” I cried. I didn't mean to, but it just popped out. Everyone laughed and we all went tearing through the doors. Somewhere at a distance I could hear Aunt Myra calling, “Marjorie! ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

“ To be sure, a mile away, over about Hamilton, the smart estates are edging toward us, but so far we are just a few houses set down on either side of a country road, with the broad meadows east of us and the hills to the west. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

“ The Prydes are an old Virginia family, and true to their name. For my part, though, I don't see what they have to be so set up about. Most of the Prydes I know aren't anything to be especially proud of. Papa was Major of a Virginia regiment during the Spanish War, and ever since then Larry and I have called him the Major. Mamma was a Massachusetts Groves—I was named Marjorie after her—and, although she never said so, I'm certain mamma always thought that when it came to family, she had something on the Major. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

“ Ellen—that's Peter's wife had done remarkable with the chickens; the late freeze had topped the peach trees a bit; there was a new house goin' up over by the railroad crossing; Ellen had had the influenzy right smart in February an' his rheumatism had been troublin' him some before the warm weather set in; there was a new colt in the barn and the high wind last month had blown down the old elm across the road. ”

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Ralph Henry Barbour, The House in the Hedge — Chapter 1 (1911)

“ The Major used to give her five or ten cents every day to keep for him in case the luck turned, and mamma would take it in her dear half-serious way and shake her head and tell him that some day he might be glad.... ”

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