The seaboard parish Author:George MacDonald 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 IV A SUNDAY E V E NIN a HEN I went in to see Constance the next Sunday morning before going to church, I knew by her face that she was expecti... more »ng the evening. I took care to get into no conversation with her during the day, that she might be quite fresh. In the evening, when I went into her room again with my bible in my hand, I found all our little company assembled. There was a glorious fire, for it was very cold, and the little ones were seated on the rug before it, one on each side of their mother ; Wynnie sat by the further side of the bed, for she always avoided any place or thing she thought another might like; and Dora sat by the further chimney-corner, leaving the space between the fire and my chair open that I might see and share the glow. "The wind is very high, papa," said Constance, as I seated myself beside her. "Yes, my dear. It has been blowing all day, and since sundown it has blown harder. Do you like the wind, Connie V " I am afraid I do like it. When it roars like that in the chimneys, and shakes the windows with a great rush as if it would get into the house and tear us to pieces, and then goes moaning away into the woods, and grumbles about in them till it grows savage again, and rushes up at us with fresh fury, I am afraid I delight in it. I feel so safe in the very jaws of danger." "Why, you are quite poetic, Connie !" said Wynnie. " Don't laugh at me, Wynnie. Mind I 'm an invalid, and I can't bear to be laughed at," returned Connie, half laughing herself, and a little more than a quarter crying. Wynnie rose and kissed her, whispered something to her which made her laugh outright, and then sat down again. " But tell me, Connie," I said, " why you are afraid you enjoy hearing the wind about the house." " Because it m...« less