Queenie's Whim, Volume 2 by Rosa Nouchette Carey

"Yes; keep me calm, though loud and rude / The sounds my ears that greet; / Calm in the closet's solitude, / Calm in the bustling street; / Calm in the hour of buoyant health, / Calm in my hour of pain; / Calm in my poverty or wealth, / Calm in my loss or gain. " -- _Bonar._

It had been arranged that Queenie should return to Carlisle for a day / or two before entering on her new duties, leaving Emmie behind her at / Church-Stile House. She must bid good-bye to her old friend, Caleb / Runciman, and redeem her promise of seeing Mr. Calcott again. A / brisk correspondence had been kept up between her and Caleb. The old / man had expressed himself well satisfied with her plans, though many / and sore were his regrets at losing her and his little favorite. "I / told Mr. Calcott your intention, as you wished me, my dear," wrote / Caleb, in his cramped neat hand. "He received the news in silence, / but after a while he muttered, 'Well, well, it will do for a time; / but it seems strange. Frank Marriott's daughter a village / school-mistress! ' and then he asked, querulously, if the girl were / coming back? I think he misses you, my dear, though not more than I / do; and what we shall do without you and the precious lamb is more / than Molly and I can tell; but she has got your old room ready, and / has baked a first-rate cake; and there's a warm welcome waiting for / you, Miss Queenie, my dear; so no more at present, from your attached / friend, Caleb Runciman."