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Eyebright scarcely heeded these answers, she was so delighted to see some children after her long fast from childhood. "What are you making?" she asked. "A fort," replied one of the boys. "Now, Fweddy, you said you'd call it a castle," put in one of the girls. "Well, castles are just the same things as forts. My mother said so."
"Are these little boys your brothers, Lot Charlotte P., I mean?" she asked. "Oh, no!" cried Nelly. "Our bwother is lots and lots bigger than they are. That's Sinclair and Fweddy. They ain't no 'lation at all, 'cept that they live next door." "Their mamma's a widow," interposed Charlotte P. "She plays on the piano, and a real handsome gentleman comes to see her 'most every day.
"Oh, yes; I 'd have a little sweetheart, dear, it 's so cunning," answered Mrs. Shaw. And Maud announced soon after that she was engaged to "Fweddy, 'cause Hawry slapped her" when she proposed the match.
Polly had been taught that it was a very serious and sacred thing; and, according to her notions, it was far more improper to flirt with one boy than to coast with a dozen. She had been much amazed, only the day before, to hear Maud say to her mother, "Mamma, must I have a beau? The girls all do, and say I ought to have Fweddy Lovell; but I don't like him as well as Hawry Fiske."
'Mine's this doll not the biggest one, the one in pink with clothes that you can take off, said Elsie; 'and this tea set; and this needlecase for Mother. Little Freddie had let go his hold of Elsie, to whom he usually clung tightly and was clapping his hands and chuckling with delight and desire. 'Gee-gee? he cried eagerly. 'Gee-gee. Pwetty Gee-gee! Fweddy want gee-gee!
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