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"Do you know her?" asked one of the girls, as the two Ellens went off after "Aunt Sophia." "Do I know her? Yes just enough exactly. How did she get here?" "Miss Humphreys brought her." "Who's Miss Humphreys?" "Hush!" said Marianne, lowering her tone "that's her brother in the window." "Whose brother? hers or Miss Humphreys'?" "Miss Humphreys'. Did you never see her?
Jenny, Lilly, Carry, Hetty, Fanny, and the rest of you, dearly beloved and longed for, Mary, my queen my singing-bird, a royal captive, but she shall come to her crown one day, my two Ellens, graceful and brilliant, and you, my sweet-mouthed, soft-eyed islander, with your life deep and boundless like the sea that lulled you to baby-slumbers, knowing you, shall I talk of regard?
You've got the efficient housewife racket down pat even to the last calory your husband should be fed; and I'll warrant there isn't a Mary Ellen in Christendom who can find a spot of ignorance on you as big as a pinhead! So we'll call that settled. What you need now is a good rest; and you're going to have it, too. I'm going to have six Mary Ellens here to-morrow morning. Six! Do you hear?
He sank back wearily on his cushions and wished other things, too: That Ellen would come in, but that wasn't a very big wish, because Ellens aren't any good at looking up words. That dictionaries grew on your side o' the room, that wish was a funny one! That Dadsy would come home oh, oh, that Dadsy would come home!
Jolly exclaimed, with splendid enthusiasm. "Prettier'n anythin'! You'd oughter see mine!" When Ellen came in to put Morry to bed she found wet spots on his cushions, but she did not mention them. Ellens can be wise. She only handled the limp little figure rather more gently than usual, and said rather more cheery things, perhaps.
If she had heard, it would only have meant quinine or aconite and belladonna to drive away feverishness. For Ellens are very watchful. "They'll be here most as soon as I can get you up 'n' dressed. I'm going to wheel you to the front winder " "No!" Morry cried, sharply; "I mean, thank you, no. I'd rather be by the back window where where I can watch for Jolly."
"Heart alive!" breathed Ellen, in fear of his sanity. She felt his temples and his wrists and his limp little body. Was he going to be sick now, just as his father and She were coming home? now, of all times! Which would be better to give him, quinine, or aconite and belladonna? "Never mind," sighed Morry, hopelessly. Ellens he might have known were not made to tell you close things like that.
Bertram did not engage six Mary Ellens the next morning, nor even one, as it happened; for that evening, Eliza who had not been unaware of conditions at the Strata telephoned to say that her mother was so much better now she believed she could be spared to come to the Strata for several hours each day, if Mrs. Henshaw would like to have her begin in that way.
And all you've got to do is to get your gladdest rags together for a trip to Europe with me next month. Because we're going. I shall get the tickets to-morrow, after I send the six Mary Ellens packing up here. Now come, put on your bonnet. We're going down town to dinner."
There are many other Alnes in England and Scotland, also Allens and Ellens as river names, probably corruptions of Alne, and we have many instances of the combination of a river name with ing and ton, such as Lymington and Dartington. The Celtic Alne points to the antiquity of the place, and there were extensive traces of Roman occupation to which I shall refer later.
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