Page 19 - Fairbrass
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They were wonderfully polite, these
waving, whispering, gently restless sisters,
and they told Fairbrass that the house in
which he was born was known as the Little
House at the foot of the hill, that in the Big-
House on the side of the hill, which, when
they bent backwards, seemed quite near to
them, and which was very big and grand
indeed, his grandfather lived, and that on
the top of the hill was God’s House, with a
beautiful blue ceiling, which could be often
lighted up with a softly shining moon and
countless twinkling stars. They said that when
his father married he had had a terrible quarrel
with the grandfather, and that father and son
had never spoken since, That this,Indeed, was
why Fairbrass wTas born in the Little House
at the foot of the hill instead of the Big
House on the side of it, which the stern old
man had determined to leave to strangers
instead of to his only son and child. They
said that his father was a good but an
obstinate man ; that owing to this family
quarrel he was anxious about his worldly
