Tess had spoken to her husband from the doorway, without entering the dining-room, and Mrs Brooks, who stood within the partly-closed door of her own sitting-room at the back of the passage, could hear fragments of the conversation--if conversation it could be called--between those two wretched souls.
This first floor, containing Mrs Brooks's best apartments, had been taken by the week by the d'Urbervilles.
A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it.
Brooks of Sheffield, for both the gentlemen laughed heartily when he was mentioned, and Mr.
'And what is the opinion of Brooks of Sheffield, in reference to the projected business?'
"Oh,
brook! Oh, foolish and tiresome little
brook!" cried Pearl, after listening awhile to its talk, "Why art thou so sad?
"A
brook," quoth Uncle Blair, "is the most changeful, bewitching, lovable thing in the world.
Thomas Lynde-- a meek little man whom Avonlea people called "Rachel Lynde's husband"--was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red
brook field away over by Green Gables.
The fresh wind bore them gently on, and soon they stood again beside the
brook, whose waves danced brightly as if to welcome them.
"My name is Doctor Percy Trevelyan," said our visitor, "and I live at 403
Brook Street."
yo, o, o!" again, and back they came altogether at full speed, making straight for our meadow at the part where the high bank and hedge overhang the
brook.