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Gall live here?" "I do," said this person. "Is Cynthia at home?" The woman upon this raised her voice and directed it at an inner door. "Lucindy!" said she in a diversity of tones, "Lucindy! tell Cynthy here's somebody wants to see her." But no one answered, and throwing the work from her lap the woman muttered she would go and see, and left Fleda with a cold invitation to sit down. Dismal work!
"H-how'd you know it how'd you know it, Cynthy?" How did she know it, indeed? "I guessed it," said Cynthia, desperately, "knowing you, I guessed it." "A-always thought you was smart, Cynthy." "Tell me, did you do this thing?" "Th-thought you knowed it th-thought you knowed." "I believe that these men are doing your bidding." "Hain't you guessin' a little mite too much; Cynthy?"
"Surely you're not going to let Mr. Sutton have it for Dave Wheelock!" "Er Cynthy," said Jethro, slyly, "w-what'd you say to me once about interferin' with women's fixin's?" Cynthia saw the point. She perceived also that the mazes of politics were not to be understood by a young woman, of even by an old soldier. She laughed and seized Jethro's hands and pulled him from the bed.
"Tain't book-larnin' 'tain't what you'd get in book larnin' in Boston, Cynthy." "What, then?" she asked. "Well," said Jethro, "they'd teach you to be a lady, Cynthy." "A lady!" "Your father come of good people, and and your mother was a lady. I'm only a rough old man, Cynthy, and I don't know much about the ways of fine folks.
"Perhaps Jethro's in his room," suggested Ephraim. And indeed they found him there seated on the bed, poring over some newspapers, and both in a breath demanded where he had been. Ephraim did not wait for an answer. "We seen General Grant, Jethro," he cried; "while we was waitin' for you under the tree he come up and stood talkin' to us half an hour. Full half an hour, wahn't it, Cynthy?"
Even Coniston folk had laughed at the idiosyncrasy which Jethro had of dressing his wife in brilliant colors, and the girl knew this. "G-got it for you to wear to Brampton on the Fourth of July, Cynthy," he said. "Uncle Jethro, I couldn't wear that to Brampton!" "You'd look like a queen," said he. "But I'm not a queen," objected Cynthia. "Rather hev somethin' else?"
I say to Paw: 'We're all church members except Cynthy, which went to college, and if we go we go. And even if we do why, we've all had a vacation, and I'll tell it to the world that a vacation trip once in a lifetime is something no family ought to be without, no matter what the preacher says about idleness. I'm strong for vacations from this time on.
I once know'd a boy just like you, an' he was put in jail for stealin'." "I ain't a-goin to stay and be jawed that way," said Sam. "You won't catch me pulling you out of a hole again. I wouldn't have you for a grandmother for all the world. Tom Baldwin told me, only yesterday, that you was always a-hectorin' him." Tom Baldwin was the son of Cynthy Ann, and consequently old Mrs. Payson's grandson.
It'll be a change for you. And I shan't be so lonesome as you'd think. I'll I'll be busy this winter, Cynthy." "You know that I wouldn't leave you, Uncle Jethro," she said reproachfully. "I should be lonesome, if you wouldn't. You would be lonesome you know you would be." "You'll do this for me, Cynthy. S-said you would, didn't you said you would?" "Why do you want me to do this?"
He seized Wetherell's carpet-bag with one hand and Cynthia's arm with the other, and shouldered his way through the people, who parted when they saw who it was. "Uncle Jethro," cried Cynthia, breathlessly, "I didn't know you were a judge. What are you judge of?" "J-judge of clothes, Cynthy. D-don't you wish you had the red cloth to wear here?" "No, I don't," said Cynthia.
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