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"Well," said I, "so much for our strictures on Miss Letitia's letter. What comes next?" "Here is a correspondent who answers the question, 'What shall we do with her? apropos of the case of the distressed young woman which we considered in our first chapter." "And what does he recommend?"
She swooped down upon Miss Letitia and hugged her with violence to make up for that moment of inward dissatisfaction with Miss Letitia's loving work. Miss Letitia's glasses were knocked off in the sudden swoop and fell into her lap. She looked most surprised at this unexpected proceeding, though highly gratified, as she retrieved the glasses.
"Ladies did not dance outside of their own and their friends' private homes in my day," Mrs. Cockrell had sighed, as she finished the petal of the rose she was embroidering upon some of Letitia's lingerie. "I'd rather they danced in their den of iniquity than to execute these modern gyrations in my home," had responded Harriet's mother, Mrs.
Tunk shied off and began to build a fire; Miss S'mantha sat down weeping, the girl ran away in the darkness, and Trove put the baby in Miss Letitia's arms. "I'll run over to Leblanc's cabin," said he, getting his cap and coat. "They're having trouble over there." He left them and hurried off on his way to the little cabin. Loud cries of the baby rang in that abode of silence.
"If I could not give a better reason" "It is not my reason, Panoria," Eliza broke in. "It is Mamma Letitia's; therefore it must be right." "Well, I don't care," Panoria declared; "even if it is your mamma's, it is but how is it your mamma's?" she asked, changing protest to inquiry. "Why, we hear it whenever we do anything," replied Eliza.
She liked Miss Letitia's apparel to have the same trim look as her own instead of the comfortably untidy appearance it did have. But, as Miss Letitia plaintively expressed it, when taken to task because she was not just so, "It's a great deal easier, Sister, to pin things down on a thin person, because there isn't any strain."
I have not yet promised him; but when the town grows a little empty, I shall think upon it, for I want some trinkets, like Letitia's, to my watch. I do not doubt my luck, but must study some means of amusing my relations. For all these distinctions I find myself indebted to that beauty which I was never suffered to hear praised, and of which, therefore, I did not before know the full value.
And it's not a bit like you to be mean, Arethusa, not a bit." Arethusa yielded. The picture Timothy presented of Miss Letitia's distress was all the more sad to contemplate because she knew it, only too well, to be true. She was getting a trifle tired of it, besides: it was only obstinacy that had kept her out so long. Yet it would never do to have him find that out.
Sister 'Senath's done absolutely nothing but watch the clock ever since we got your father's telegram you were coming. Why, Dearie!" For Arethusa was crying openly on Miss Letitia's comfortable shoulder. "Arethusa isn't well," remarked Miss Eliza, coming up behind them with most of the dropped belongings; "she must go to bed just as soon as she gets inside the house." Arethusa lifted her head.
Lillie's mind, for instance, hasn't been cultivated as yours and Letitia's. She isn't at all that sort of girl. She's just a dear, gentle, little confiding creature, that you'll delight in. You'll form her mind, and she'll look up to you. You know she's young yet." "Young, John! Why, she's seven and twenty," said Grace, with astonishment. "Oh, no, my dear Gracie! that is all a mistake.
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