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through--Will moved the things away to the dresser. His mother.html">mother leant
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customary in village schools. His mother bent forward, her lips
attention. Will sat with his head.html">head depressed and hung down.html">down.html">down. He knew
disgrace. When the reading.html">reading was ended, he still hung down his head in
for the day. Her eyes looked dreamy, as if she saw a vision; and by-
underneath each word, began to read them aloud in a low voice to
humiliation; but most of all, she paused and brightened over the
day of the funeral.html">funeral. The black storm-laden dome of heaven lay very
out of the house.html">house which had known his presence so long as its ruling
in their winding march over the unbeaten snow, to Milne Row Church;
heaving ascents. There was no long tarrying after the funeral, for
to go, and the great white flakes which came slowly down were the
accompanied the widow and her sons to their home.
The Upclose farm.html">Farm had belonged for generations to the Leighs; and yet
was the house and out-buildings, all of an old-fashioned kind, and
possessed capital enough to improve; indeed, they could hardly rely
sons to some trade, such as a wheelwright's or blacksmith's.
James Leigh had left a will in the possession of the old man who
farm to his faithful wife, Anne Leigh, for her lifetime, and
savings bank was to accumulate for Thomas.
After the reading was ended, Anne Leigh sat silent for a time and
back kitchen, and thence strolled out into the fields regardless of
.
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