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Most I hate is leavin' 'Manda Grier, she is the one that I've roomed with ever since I first came to Boston; but Lem and her don't get on very well; they hain't really either of 'em got anything against each other now, but they don't like very we-e-ll; and, of course, I got to have the friends that he wants me to have, and that's what 'Manda Grier says, to-o-o; and so it's just as well we're goin' to be where they won't cla-a-sh."
He could not understand why she said all this, for the whole room was clean, and Statira herself was beautifully dressed in the same dress that she had worn the night before, or one just like it; and after she had put up the window, 'Manda Grier said, "S'tira Dudley, do you want to kill yourself?" and ran and pulled aside the curtain in the corner, and took down the dolman from among other clothes that hung there, and threw it on Statira's shoulders, who looked as pretty as a pink in it.
Barker at the apothecary's and got him to come home 'th me; but of course, 'twan't the same as if it was the young man!" Lemuel's arm fell from Statira's waist in his torment. "Why, Lemuel!" she said in tender reproach. "Why, you coot!" cried 'Manda Grier in utter amazement at his single-mindedness; and burst into a scream of laughter. She took the teapot from the stove, and set it on the table.
They began again, Statira holding the book this time, and Lemuel repeating as before, and he went quite through the alphabet without anything happening. "Well, I declare!" said Statira, looking grave. "Let's try it over again." "You may try, and you may try, and you may try," said 'Manda Grier. "It won't do you any good. I hain't got any fate in that line."
I didn't mean to spoil the party, truly I didn't, mother! We just wanted some clouds anyway I did," she added honestly, "and we went down to 'Manda and she wasn't there but the clouds were so we took them. That's all. Will it spoil the party?" "I don't know what to think," said Mrs. Merrill, as she sat down between the two little girls to think and plan.
"I d' know as I care much about Lem's picture, s'long's we've got him around," 'Manda Grier whipped out, "but I should like t' see those celebrated girls 't we've heard s' much about." "Well," said Statira carelessly, and they went into the next room to put on their wraps.
"I I guess I better be going," he said. "You sha'n't go till I get back, anyway," said 'Manda Grier hospitably. "You keep him, S'tira!" She gave Statira a little push, and ran down the stairs. Statira tottered against Lemuel, with that round, soft shoulder which had touched him before. He put out his arms to save her from falling, and they seemed to close round her of themselves.
Who got her into the box- factory, I should like to know?" "I did!" said 'Manda Grier, turning sharply on him, "and you kept her there; and between us we've killed her." "How have I kept her there, I should like to know?" "'F you'd done's she wanted you should, she might 'a' been at some pleasant place in the country the mount'ns, or somewhere 't she'd been ov'r her cough by this time. But no!
"And how funny he looks with that red thing o-o-o-n!" Miss Swan explained that she had thrown that in for the colour, and that they had been fancying him in the character of a young Roman. "You think he's got a Roman n-o-o-se?" asked Statira through her own. "I think Lem's got a kind of a pug, m'self," said 'Manda Grier. "Well, 'Manda Grier!" said Statira.
They left him sitting alone with 'Manda Grier, at a table where they had all been having ice-cream at his expense; and though it was no longer any pleasure to be with her, it was better than to be with them, for she was not a fool, at any rate.
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