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Hattie and Sadie lived farther on. "It must be a fire," said Hattie. But it wasn't. It was The Exhibition, the Principal, and Miss Carrie, and teachers and pupils, and mammas and aunties and Uncle Charlie. "An' gran'ma " said Hattie. "And the visiting lady " said Emmy Lou. "And our minister," said Sadie.
"If I ever was a little uneasy it was in the beginning, Hattie the girl those things don't always turn out." "It's her as much as me, I.W. She's the sweetest little thing." "Never seen the like the way you took hold, though. I'll bet there's not one woman in a hundred could have worked it out easier." "That's right kid me to death." "'Kid, she says, the minute I tell her the truth."
Just as the purple shadows of the October evening were lengthening, the end was drawing near. The hoary patriarch called his children all by name Harry and Eva, Joe and his wife, Albert and his wife, Nancy and her husband, Hannah and her husband, and Hattie, the unmarried daughter yet at home and they all gathered in the room where death was to be a guest.
"Didn't you, Benny?" asked Mr. Smith, with suddenly a beaming countenance. "Oh, well, that doesn't matter, does it?" And Mr. Smith gave an odd little chuckle as he turned away. Early in December Mrs. Hattie, after an extended search, found a satisfactory home. It was a somewhat pretentious house, not far from the Gaylord place. Mrs.
Will you allow me the pleasure of driving you to the park this afternoon? Two months ago you refused a similar request, but since then I flatter myself we have become better friends." "Thank you, Sir Roger. I presume the children can spare me, and I will go with pleasure." "I will call at five o'clock." He handed her and Hattie into the coupe, tenderly assisted Felix, and saw them driven away.
"But, Hattie, money isn't everything, dear," remonstrated her husband gently. "We had friends, and good friends, before." "Yes; but you wait and see what kind of friends we have now!" "But we can't keep up with such people, dear, on our income; and " "Ma, here's a man. I guess he wants somebody." It was a husky whisper from Benny. James Blaisdell stopped abruptly.
So he doesn't amount to so very much, after all. I'm not sure, anyway, that Mother'll want to get married again. From little things she says I rather guess she doesn't think much of marriage, anyway. One day I heard her say to Aunt Hattie that it was a very pretty theory that marriages were made in heaven, but that the real facts of the case were that they were made on earth.
The light wagons were made to hold two each instead of one, and the matinal snipe escaped death, and was happy over his early worm. One day, however, Laura Thurston had a headache, and Hattie Chapman stayed at home to take care of her; so Burnham and Salsbury had to amuse themselves alone.
Beside a tender, humorous, mobile mouth played two dimples, which appeared and disappeared as she moved about the room delivering monologue to Hattie. "I see a dark gentleman that ain't in your life yet. He's behind a counter now, I think. He ain't the one that the ace of hearts shows is goin' to call.
As luck would have it, he had not discovered Crooked Inlet. If he had, he would have lifted the buoys, and it might have led to extra watchfulness on the part of the blockading fleet. But he had discovered the Hattie and his actions proved that he did not mean to let her escape if he could help it.
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