But Faith felt a certain gloomy satisfaction . Adam was partially avenged . CHAPTER XX . FAITH MAKES A FRIEND Next day in school was a hard one for Faith . Mary Vance had told the tale of Adam , and all the scholars , except the Blythes , thought it quite a joke . The girls told Faith , between giggles , that it was too bad , and the boys wrote sardonic notes of condolence to her . Poor Faith went home from school feeling her very soul raw and smarting within her . `` I 'm going over to Ingleside to have a talk with Mrs. Blythe , '' she sobbed . `` SHE wo n't laugh at me , as everybody else does . I 've just GOT to talk to somebody who understands how bad I feel . '' She ran down through Rainbow Valley . Enchantment had been at work the night before . A light snow had fallen and the powdered firs were dreaming of a spring to come and a joy to be . The long hill beyond was richly purple with leafless beeches . The rosy light of sunset lay over the world like a pink kiss . Of all the airy , fairy places , full of weird , elfin grace , Rainbow Valley that winter evening was the most beautiful . But all its dreamlike loveliness was lost on poor , sore-hearted little Faith . By the brook she came suddenly upon Rosemary West , who was sitting on the old pine tree . She was on her way home from Ingleside , where she had been giving the girls their music lesson . She had been lingering in Rainbow Valley quite a little time , looking across its white beauty and roaming some by-ways of dream .
Judging from the expression XXXXX her face , her thoughts were pleasant ones .
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