The Fortunes of Rachel Author:Edward Everett Hale 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: CHAPTER III. A NEW WOKLD. " The broad-armed trees above it growing, The clear breeze through tie-foliage blowing." So Rachel and Miss Smith worked thei... more »r way through Cambridge Street, which is the crowded central ganglion of the circulation of Boston, where men, women, horses, cars, carts, and carriages from the north meet and pass boys, girls, dogs, cats, express wagons, and loads of moving furniture from the south. They passed Scollay Square, and Miss Smith pointed out the statue of Win- throp to Rachel, and explained to her how the first people came over. They worked their way along to the Common, and the poor sea-tossed girl was regaled with the sight of green grass and overhanging trees. Miss Smith led her to the Frog Pond, in the hope that the fountain might be playing, never so shyly. But alas ! water was scarce that summer, and there was no such display. But there was what was better—an army of boys, not to say girls, sailing their tiny boats upon the tiny "lake." And Rachel exulted in the steadiness of the earth beneath her, in the fragrance of new-cut grass. She sympathized with the feeling of an expert in every shipwreck, and found herself giving counsel how a sail made from a writing-book should be fastened that it might best woo the south wind. Of a sudden a surprised voice : " Why, my dear Miss Rachel, is this yon ?" The girl turned in wonder that any one should know her, and in hope, in all this unknown continent. The speaker was Mr. Wolff, whom she had not seen since they parted at breakfast on the fishing-boat. She had had no chance even to bid him good-by. " Why, Mr. Wolff !'' she said. " I am so glad to see you. It seemed so rude that I left you without even saying good-by, when I wanted to thank you so much, and the captain, and all for ...« less