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As a rule, their master went off somewhere in the evening and took the cat and the gander with him. Left alone, Auntie lay down on her little mattress and began to feel sad. Melancholy crept on her imperceptibly and took possession of her by degrees, as darkness does of a room.
"Don't you just jolly well awfully love the fair captive, yon heartless jade my Auntie Helen? Don't you, Black Bart?" I made no answer, but frowned very much at his presumption. " Because, everybody else does. She's nice. I should think you would. I do, I know mighty well." "She is she is she's a very estimable young woman, Jimmy," said I, coloring.
There's no secrets between us, Solomon." "I don't care. I wan't to talk to you. It's you I've got to talk to." Thankful would have protested once more, but Emily put a hand on her arm. "I'll go into the living-room with Georgie, Auntie," she whispered. "Yes, I shall." She went and closed the door behind her. Thankful sat down in a chair, wondering what was coming next.
Carefully, Auntie Sue laid the garment she had just mended with such loving care, with the rest of Brian Kent's clothing, on the near-by chair. Rising, she went with slow, troubled step to the porch. There was no moon, that night, to turn the waters of The Bend into a stream of silvery light.
I mind, tee, o' calling to my aunt as I thought, 'Auntie! do thou hear? bring another blanket to throw owre me, and put out that light I canna get a wink o' sleep for it. Then I thought I found something upon my breast, that was like my little Anne's head, and I put my hand out, and I said, 'Is that thee, Anne love? But there was no answer; and I gied the head a shake, when, my conscience! there was such a frightened squall got up, that I sprang right upon my feet, and, to my astonishment, there had I been lying upon the moor, wi' Dobbin at my side, and the light which I wished to have put out was neither more nor less than the moon!
"It's in charge of the police, and they won't let anyone in, without some very good reason." "Couldn't you get in?" "I suppose I might" I admitted unwillingly, "if I had any business there." "Oh, do get up some business, Chet," begged Winnie, "and get the keys and let Auntie and me go with you! Oh, do! I'd love to see that girl's things!"
"Auntie Kirstie, indeed! A bitter, thrawn auld maid that's fomented trouble in the country before I was born, and will be doing it still, I daur say, when I'm deid! It's in her nature; it's as natural for her as it's for a sheep to eat." "Pardon me, Kirstie, she was not the only one," interposed Archie. "I had two warnings, two sermons, last night, both most kind and considerate.
I had scarcely begun speaking, when a succession of the most fearful screams arose from down-stairs, each rising louder and louder, in the extreme of terror. My sister, who had gone to her room, rushed down to me; the girls, in their dressing-gowns, just as they were preparing for bed, followed, calling out, "Auntie! O Auntie! what is it? Who is screaming? What can be the matter?"
As it is, I has to toll her downtown with a bid to luncheon, and then I suggests visitin' City Hall. She's wise in a minute, too. "It's no use, Torchy," says she. "I've promised Auntie that, whatever else I did, I would never run away to be married." And there my grand little scheme is shot full of holes, all in a second.
"I? No. I have never yet lost one whom I so loved and so yearned to see again. I was but thinking that such losses may befall us all ere we too vanish out of sight." "Lily!" called forth Mrs. Cameron, halting at the gate of the burial-ground. "Yes, auntie?" "Mr. Emlyn wants to know how far you have got in 'Numa Pompilius. Come and answer for yourself."
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