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Miss Gertrude rose, but with not the best grace in the world, and Christie followed her into the house and up-stairs. At the first landing a door opened, and a little boy, half-dressed, rushed out. "Tudie, let me go with you; I want to go." "Naughty boys who won't let Mattie dress them mustn't expect to be taken anywhere. You are not to come with me. You will wake Claude."
"You will not you'll eat with the rest of us." "Yes, but you stockholders " The word had an import to Miss Mattie; a something, if not regal, at least a kinship to the king. Under her democracy lay a respect for the founded institution; impersonal; an integral part of the law of the State; in fact, a minor sovereignty within an empire. "Stockholder yourself!" retorted Red.
Roberts to take a girl from the slums into her family that it was "tempting Providence to attempt such violent wrenches" now said one to another, that "it must be a great relief to Mrs. Roberts to have that Mattie Colson always at her elbow to see that everything about the home was just as it should be;" and they added, with a sigh, that "some people were very fortunate."
Who knows but some day she may be her equal, Oh!" The second letter said: "I must tell you something. The other evening Harvey Bigelow called. You know I never liked him any more than I liked Mattie nor Nora. Now I like Mattie and I am beginning to like Harvey. I hope I shall change towards Nora, but I see no sign now. Well, Harvey began.
It's wore off considerable in the last three days, though." Allan then told her, in vivid and powerful language, how the druggist's error might have had very serious results, had it not been for Roger's presence of mind in substituting the flour-filled capsules for the "searching medicine." He was surprised to find that Miss Mattie was ungrateful, and that she violently resented the imposition.
They probably have." Miss Mattie went to the kitchen and brought back a small, cracked mirror. She studied the offending orbs by the light, very carefully, both with and without her spectacles. "No, they ain't," she announced, finally. "They're the same size and shape and colour that they've always been, and the specs are the same.
Mary went swiftly out, and shut the door behind her. "I guess you better not see him to-night," she said. "You can come in to-morrer. I shouldn't wonder if he'd be up then." "I told Adam" began Mattie, but Mary put a hand on her thin little arm, and held it there. "I'd rather talk to-morrer," said she gently. "Don't you come in before 'leven; but you come. Tell Adam to, if he wants.
But Wallace blessed his bread in a silent prayer, and Mattie thought it very brave of him to do so. Herman was full of mockery. "The sun rises just the same, whether it's 'sprinkling' or 'immersion. It's lucky Nature don't take a hand in these theological contests. She doesn't even referee the scrap; she never seems to care whether you are sparring for points or fighting to a finish.
We'll have a party, all by ourselves, and if Mattie scolds about the milk to-morrow you just tell her I said you could. And I think there are some walnut meats in the third cocoa can on the shelf in the pantry. Use 'em all." Theodore came home at twelve o'clock that night. He had gone to Bauer's studio party after all.
The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie. The two leaned forward at the same moment and their hands met on the handle of the jug. Mattie's hand was underneath, and Ethan kept his clasped on it a moment longer than was necessary.
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