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She was the older, but the larger and stronger of the two. Elmira sat in the rear gloom of the covered wagon with Sarah, holding her silk gown spread carefully over her knees. She thought of nothing all the way but the possibility of meeting Lawrence. She made up her mind that if she did she would sit far back in the wagon and not thrust her head forward at all.
Elmira, with her blue checked pinafore tied under her chin, sat in a high wooden chair, with her little bare feet curling over a round, and beat eggs with a wooden spoon in a great bowl. "What you doin'?" asked Jerome. Her mother answered for her. "She's mixin' up some custard for pies," said she. "I dun'no' as there's any need of you standin' lookin' as if you never saw any before."
But the kick was already started into the air, and when he turns he can't stop it. And so Hank gets twisted and falls down and steps on himself. That basket lets out a yowl. "It's kittens," says Hank, still setting down and staring at that there basket. All of which, you understand, I am a-telling you from hearsay, as the lawyers always asts you in court. Elmira, she sings out: "Kittens, nothing!
"I'll admit that there is reason to suspect a strain of selfishness in Rachel's nature," said Anna Bayne; "but it's the only blemish among her many good qualities. Still, I think you do her an injustice in attributing her absence from our meetings to purely selfish motives." "Of course, we all know what you mean," said Elmira.
Elmira, when she came up-stairs, opened his door a crack, and whispered, in a voice tremulous with happiness, "Jerome, you asleep?" "No." "Do you know about Lawrence and me?" "Yes; I'm real glad, Elmira." "I hope you'll forgive me for speaking to you the way I did, Jerome." "That's all right, Elmira."
But Elmira only answers: "You wasn't sober when you fell into there, Hennerey Walters. And now you can jest stay in there till you get a better temper on you!" And all the women says: "That's right, Elmira; spunk up to him!" They was considerable splashing around in the water fur a couple of minutes.
Not to feel, not to realize; there lay the only chance of keeping one's own courage, and so of being any help whatever to two of the most miserable of human beings. At last, rather more than a week after Delafield's departure, came two telegrams. One was from Delafield "Mervyn died this morning. Duke's condition causes great anxiety." The other from Evelyn Crowborough "Elmira died this morning.
"What is my uncle's name?" "Stephen Ray. He lives a few miles from Elmira, on the Erie road." "And is he quite rich?" "Yes; he is probably worth a quarter of a million dollars. It is money which should have gone to your father." "Then the wicked are sometimes prospered in this world!" "Yes, but this world is not all." "Has there been any communication with my cousin in all these years?"
Jerome, with Elmira following, made his way slowly through the outskirts towards this fine nucleus of the party. Lawrence Prescott was talking gayly with Lucina, but when he saw Jerome and his sister approaching he stood back, with a slight flush and start, beside his mother, who with Miss Camilla was seated on the great sofa between the north windows. Mrs.
The man who can laugh at himself, and who is not anxious to have the last word, is right in the suburbs of greatness. However, the Beechers all had a deal of positivism in their characters. Thomas K. Beecher of Elmira, in Eighteen Hundred Fifty-six, declared he would not shave until John C. Fremont was elected President. It is needless to add that he wore whiskers the rest of his life.
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