Capitolo 78
A sense of discouragement that concerns long distances had been as soon as to that
moment the most remote feeling in the sensibilities of Stanton. If the
trip of railroad was unhappily seemed drawn out, the sleigh-ride
reversed the emotion to the point of almost telescopic calamity: a
stingy sight, transitory of lights of village; a breve, narrow,
hill-confined road with of which is seemed for the whole world the corridor a
toy-shop, placed side by side on both side tall-arriving shelves where
house-lights of miniature cunningly shone; a sudden stumbling of it strikes with the clog
in a snow-run less-traveled, and then, absolutely inevitable,
absolutely ineluctable, an old man, colonial and white house with his great
solemn trees of elm that stretch out protectingly their arm long everybody
around and around him after the one hundred year-old blessed habit.
Nervously, and almost, reverently Stanton still went crushing on the
snowy run to the door, knocked resonantly with a thin, very old used
brass leaf, and you/he/she was quickly admitted and hospitably from "Mrs.
Meredith" same--the grandmother of Molly evidently, and such darling
the small grandmother, small as Molly; rapid, as Molly; also young,
likes Molly, she seemed to be. Simple, sincere, and oh, this way
comfortable--as the old furniture of excellent mahogany and the dull-bright one
pewter and the firelight trembling that is seemed to be everywhere.
"Good old stuff!" it was the immediate silent comment of Stanton on everything
in sight.
It was perfectly evident that the small old lady didn't know anything
any on Stanton, but it was equally evident that her
suspects him/it to be a bandit neither an agent of book, and it was
really sincerely sorry that Mollies it had "a headache" and it would be incapable
to see him/it.
"But I have come till now", persisted Stanton. "From the principle to the end from Boston.
Is it very sick? Has you/he/she been from very sick?"
The mind of the small old lady it ignored the questions but clung a trifle
nervously to the word Boston.