An Honorable Surrender Author:Mary Adams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. " It was the time of roses : We plucked them as we passed." Thomas Hood. Time dragged with Lawrence for two or three days after this. His eyes did... more » not get strong as quickly as he could have wished, so that he-was unable to read or write much; and, in consequence, he very soon got to the end of his resources. He walked a good deal, and smoked on the piazza, and listened to Mrs. Hardy! At last he thought of fishing in Unity River; and, though it was not lively sport, it was a way of passing time. As he became used to the country, he usually struck across the meadows to the river, instead of following the road. This gave him an unfamiliar back view of the houses he passed. On the side of a hill, on the outskirts of the meadows, he noticed an apple-orchard in full bloom, a massof pink and white, on the upward slope. He caught glimpses of a roof he did not recognize above it. The orchard was divided from the meadow by a tumble-down wall. The second day he saw, from a considerable distance, a blue spot between the wall and the nearest trees. As he came nearer, this proved to be a young lady, who looked up from the book she was reading, and nodded to him. He recognized Miss Dinsmore. When he came back she was still there, rather to his surprise ; but she did not look up. " That is not indifference: it is determination," he remarked to himself. " She detests me, no doubt; but she is determined not to go out of her way on my account." He saw her there so often within the next few days that he gave up the determination theory as rather violent. He was resolved not to be violent in his speculations regarding her. As the days went on, they came to speaking, and then to chatting, across the wall. By the time the apple-trees were out of blossom, their acqu...« less