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There is a sort of delicate change of color in them that means buds beginning to grow." Before he could reply, the door opened, and Mehitabel presented herself with a card. "Oh," said Berenice, as she received it, "already!" There seemed to Maurice something of impatience or dismay in her tone. She excused herself and went out, leaving the old servant with Wynne.
Mamma impressed upon her little son and daughters that they must be very good children and obey Mehitabel just as they would her; and when they were going, papa said to Stevie: "Son, I want you to look after the girls and Mehitabel, and take care of them while I am away. If anything happens, try to act as you think I would if I were here."
"Of course it did!" cried Cousin Jack from behind them. "But that house is so overhung with creepers it makes you feel creepy anyway. I'm going to call it Creeper Castle." "Oh, don't!" said Marjorie. "It sounds horrid! Makes you think of caterpillars and things like that!" "So it does! Well, Mehitabel, you name it for us. I can't live in a house without a name." "I'd call it Bryant Bower.
I'll be the Chief, and my name is Opodeldoc. You two girls can be squaws, no, you needn't either. Mehitabel can be a Squaw, and Susannah, you are a pale-faced Maiden, and we'll capture you. Then Hezekiah here can be a noble young Brave, who will rescue you from our clutches! His name will be Ipecacuanha." Surely Cousin Jack knew how to play Indians!
"Isn't he the rudest!" gasped Eva, as the procession Miss Higginson bringing up the rear disappeared behind the doors of the guest room; while Kate and Stevie were, for once in their lives, too amazed to be able to express their feelings. After what seemed a long time to the children, Mehitabel rejoined them. "I am in a pucker," she said, sinking into a chair.
Oh, hold up, Harry! if you go so fast you'll snip it off. You're terribly close to one edge, now! Ah, there you go! one strip is chopped right off. Well, never mind, my boy, stand here by me, and watch the others. What, Tom out, too? Well, well, Tom, the more haste the less speed! Careful, Midget, you'll be out in a minute. There you go! Out it is, for Mehitabel!
"Oh, here's a gondola stopped at our door," broke in Eva, who, taking advantage of Miss Higginson's attention being occupied elsewhere, was looking out of the window. "There's a boy in it lying down a big boy. Oh, a man's just got out and yes, they're bringing the boy in here! "Sakes alive!" cried Mehitabel, dropping Stevie's book on the floor and starting for the door. "Can it possibly be Mr.
I fancy that most American boys and girls would have enjoyed being where Stevie was at this time, for he and his papa and mamma, and Kate and Eva, and Mehitabel Higginson, were living in a large and quite grand-looking house in Venice.
He hesitated to don again the dress of a deacon, but he reflected that to do otherwise would be to expose himself to the curiosity and comment of his fellows. With a smile and a sigh he put on for the last time the cassock, recalling the contemptuous terms in which at the time of the accident Mehitabel Durgin had referred to the garment.
Worse than the gauntlet of measles and whooping-cough and mumps which the little ones have to run is this parental outrage. What a struggle in life that child will have who has been baptized Jedekiah or Mehitabel! If a child is "called after" some one living, let that one be past mid-life and of such temperament that there shall be no danger of his becoming an absconder and a cheat.
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