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Me and your mother were never very good friends, Phoebe, since that's your name; but if there's anything I can do for you, or my family, you won't ask twice. Grandmother's ain't a very lively house, not like mine, as is full of children. Come in, Granny.
The consequence was, that granny and I did not part good friends; and I sincerely hoped that when I had come back again, I should not find her above ground.
"Well, then, Granny," said Gretchen, "the Christmas angels will, I know; so I am going to take one of your wooden shoes, and put it on the windowsill outside, so that they may see it as they pass by. I am sure the stars will tell the Christmas angels where the shoe is." "Ah, you foolish, foolish child," said Granny, "you are only getting ready for a disappointment.
"Going in" for dogs seemed to mean more. "I've got only one just now," he confessed. Wooded hills flew by them, the white road flickered forward to their wheels. "You interested in the movement?" demanded the flapper again. "Yes," he said. "Granny will be delighted to know that. So many young men aren't."
Yes, we were all looking at the sunset, and as I knew tea must be ready I know you want it, dear granny I asked them to have some. Here it is, as I told you, quite hot, and very fragrant this cold night. How cold it is outside! I think it will freeze, and that skating may come off at last, Mr. May, that you were talking of, you remember? You were to teach your sisters to skate."
How is your grandmother? Have you brought me any message from your aunt?" "Granny is not very well to-day," replied Roy, frankly, "and Aunt Judy didn't know we were coming here. We have been riding, and Dudley's pony has had to be shod, so we've left him at the blacksmith's and come on here. You see we thought it would pass the time."
"You ought to know," said she. His face showed that he had not forgotten. "Those biscuits!" said he. "I remember. Does your granny treat you better now?" Carrie's face grew gloomy and cold. And Max noticed that, thin as she had been when he saw her last, she was much thinner now. The outline of her cheek was pathetically pinched, almost sunken. "No. Worse," she said at last, in a low voice.
It piled drift upon drift, and made the roads about Benton, for miles in every direction, impassible. It shut each farmhouse in upon itself; the Ellisons in their home; Colonel Witham and Granny Thornton alone in the Half Way House. The old mill was silent for a whole week. Then there came a magazine to Tom Harris, bringing a timely suggestion to the boys of Benton.
And before long Orchard Glen was mentioned in the Algonquin papers as the one place that always sent in perfect socks. And a photographer came out from town and took a picture of Granny Minns, as the oldest knitter of faultless socks, and it was put in the paper and Orchard Glen was held up as an example for the countryside and was the envy of the whole knitting public.
But quite of her own accord she took an extraordinary, ancient pack of cards out of Snandalia's hand. "Whose fortune shall I tell?" "Why everybody's, of course!" Paklin exclaimed. "What a dear old thing......... You can do what you like with her," he thought. "Tell us all our fortunes, granny dear," he said aloud. "Tell us our fates, our characters, our futures, everything!"
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