“... He was always ready to constitute himself a hostile
army or a band of marauding Indians” 6
“‘Where’s Harold?’ I asked presently. ‘Oh, he’s just
playin’ muffin-man as usual’” 16
“When at last the atmosphere was clear of his depressing
influence, we met despondently in the potato-cellar” 34
“Instead of active ‘pretence,’ with its shouts and its
perspiration, how much better—I held—to lie at ease
and pretend to one’s self, in green and golden fancies” 40
“... And then, my cheek on the cool marble, lulled by the
trickle of water, I slipped into dreamland out of real
and magic world alike” 64
“‘Now we’ll go on,’ began Charlotte once more” 70
“Edward led the race home at a speed which one of
Ballantyne’s heroes might have equalled but never
surpassed” 88
“This overland route had been revealed to us one day by the
domestic cat, when hard pressed in the course of an
otter-hunt” 104
“A straight flagged walk led up to the cool-looking old
house, and my host, lingering in his progress at this
rose-tree and that, forgot all about me at least twice” 112
“Meanwhile Charlotte and I crouched in the window-seat,...” 124
“‘She’s off with those vicarage girls again,’ said Edward” 136
“We put the Argo’s head upstream, since that led away from
the Larkin province” 148
“Then he stood up, and he was very straight and tall, and
the sunset was in his hair and beard as he stood there,
high over me” 174
“Westward the clouds were massing themselves in a low
violet bank; below them, to north and south, as far
round as the eye could reach, a narrow streak of gold
ran out ... I turned for a last effort” 186
“‘I’ve been chopping up wood,’ he explained, in a guilty
sort of way” 200
“We entered in noiseless file, the room being plunged in
darkness, except for a bright strip of moonlight on
the floor” 214
“Shops came first, of course,...” 230
“... Selina and Charlotte were busy stuffing Edward’s
rabbits with unwonted forage, bilious and green” 250