1 I'll get another just like it to-morrow.
2 "You're letting your supper get cold," she admonished him with a pale gleam of gaiety.
3 "I'll go out and take a look around," he said, going toward the passage to get his lantern.
4 But sometimes the two of them get going at each other, and then Ethan's face'd break your heart.
5 He wanted to get the feeling of it into his hand, so that it would sleep there like a seed in winter.
6 "I might get something to do over at Stamford," she faltered, as if knowing that he knew she had no hope.
7 "I'm obliged to you, but I'll try if I can get it down at Mrs. Homan's," Ethan answered, burning to be gone.
8 Everybody said I was lucky to get a girl to come away out here, and I agreed to give her a dollar extry to make sure.
9 Suddenly he heard the old sorrel whinny across the road, and thought: "He's wondering why he doesn't get his supper."
10 If he could get Mrs. Hale's ear he felt certain of success, and with fifty dollars in his pocket nothing could keep him from Mattie.
11 Ethan drove on in silence till they reached a part of the wood where the pines were more widely spaced, then he drew up and helped Mattie to get out of the sleigh.
12 After his father's death it had taken time to get his head above water, and he did not want Andrew Hale, or any one else in Starkfield, to think he was going under again.
13 He would have liked to linger on, watching her tidy up and then settle down to her sewing; but he wanted still more to get the hauling done and be back at the farm before night.
14 Ethan made a pretext of getting up to replenish the stove, and when he returned to his seat he pushed it sideways that he might get a view of her profile and of the lamplight falling on her hands.
15 Then, when the loading finally began, a sleety rain was coming down once more, and the tree trunks were so slippery that it took twice as long as usual to lift them and get them in place on the sledge.
16 But he continued to finger about cautiously with his left hand, thinking he might get hold of the little creature and help it; and all at once he knew that the soft thing he had touched was Mattie's hair and that his hand was on her face.
17 He thought that by starting out again with the lumber as soon as he had finished his dinner he might get back to the farm with the glue before Jotham and the old sorrel had had time to fetch Zenobia from the Flats; but he knew the chance was a slight one.
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