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"He makes such a fuss about the slightest thing that I've got out of the habit of EVER telling the TRUTH." She walked away from Jimmy as though dismissing the entire matter; he shifted his position uneasily; she turned to him again with mock sweetness. "I suppose YOU told AGGIE all about it?" she said. Jimmy's round eyes opened wide and his jaw dropped lower.
"That's the way invalids always have their hair," was Aggie's laconic reply, and she continued to plait the obstinate curls. "I won't have it like that!" declared Zoie, and she shook herself free from Aggie's unwelcome attentions and proceeded to unplait the hateful pigtail. "Alfred would leave me." Aggie shrugged her shoulders.
From time to time, James had received letters from home. Communication was irregular; but his mother and Mr. Wilks wrote frequently, and sometimes he received half a dozen letters at once. He had now been absent from home for four years, and his mother told him that he would scarcely recognize Aggie, who was now as tall as herself. Mrs.
But I am obliged to keep my eyes on my feet, and it might be noticed." "I just came in," Aggie said, "to say that Helen and her lover have made it up. They are down by the lake now, and if you will look out you can see them." I gave Tish an arm to the window, and the three of us stood and looked out.
"She maunna lat it pass." "It was a lee! It was a lee!" gasped Elsie. Cosmo ran, and from the top of the rise called aloud, "Aggie! Aggie! come back." Beyond her he saw another country girl approaching, but took little heed of her. Aggie turned at his call, and came to him quickly. "She confesses it's a lee, Aggie," he said.
"Throw out your chests, and breathe deep of this pure air unsullied by civilization," she cried. "Aggie, fill yourself with ozone." "Humph!" said Aggie. "It's about all I will fill myself with." "Think," Tish observed, "of the fools and dolts who are living under roofs, struggling, contending, plotting, while all Nature awaits them."
"You'd better come through," Burke reiterated. Then his manner changed to wheedling. "If you're the wise kid I think you are, you will." Aggie waxed very petulant over this insistence. "I tell you, I don't know anything! Say, what are you trying to hand me, anyway?" Burke scowled on the girl portentously, and shook his head. "Now, it won't do, I tell you, Aggie Lynch. I'm wise. You listen to me."
It was as if Nature had conceived a grudge against Aggie, and strove, through maternity, to stamp out her features as an individual. "Oh yes," said Aggie, to break the intolerable tension of that look, "it's one of your old ones, turned and trimmed to make it look different." "Poor darling," said Susie; but what she thought was that it did look different. Luckily Mrs.
Tish was eating a frog's leg when the idea came to her. "He'll never come out under ordinary circumstances in that er costume," she said. "Suppose we call for help. He'll probably come bounding. Help!" she yelled, between bites, as one may say. "Help! Fire! Police!" "Help!" cried Aggie. "Percy, help!" It sounded like "Mercy, help!" It worked like a charm.
Where, indeed, could be the harm in making some old sinner pay a round price for his folly? And always, in response to every argument, Mary shook her head in negation. She would live straight. Then, the heavy brows of Aggie would draw down a little, and the baby face would harden. "You will find that you are up against a hell of a frost," she would declare, brutally.
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