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"I's c'acked inside my head, but it don't matter," said Diana. The woman stared from the children to the man; then something in Diana's face went straight to her heart. "Why, you poor little mite," she said, "come along this minute. Why, Jonathan, don't you know her? Course it's the little missy that we both saw in the circus last night. Didn't I see her when she fell from the ring?
And the bad boy who sat behind you Tommy Marsh." "Oh! oh! And that day I sat on the floor!" She laughed gayly. She did not mind it a bit now. "Wasn't it funny? And the way you just sat still with the school in an uproar. You standing up there and 'sassing' back the old dame! Such a mite of a thing, too. My! but you were a plucky one!" in admiration. "And you never came to school after that.
"Oh, no, no," she declared, with decision, "You ain't a mite of bother, Mr. Bangs. I've heard Miss Martha say more'n a dozen times what a nice man you was and how easy 'twas to provide for you. She likes you, Miss Martha does, and I do, too. Even when we thought you was an undertaker huntin' 'round for remains we liked you just the same."
"Here is some cream toast and some of those new pease, and a little chop, spring lamb, and a cup of tea. Now you just eat every mite of it, and then I've got a saucer of strawberries and cream for you to top off with." Rose looked hopelessly at the dainty fare. Then she looked at Sylvia. The impulse to tell another woman her trouble got the better of her.
'Isn't it eight, Fedosya Nikolaevna? put in Dunyasha, with some timidity. 'No, seven; what an idea! The baby chuckled again, stared at the chest, and suddenly caught hold of his mother's nose and mouth with all his five little fingers. 'Saucy mite, said Fenitchka, not drawing her face away. 'He's like my brother, observed Pavel Petrovitch. 'Who else should he be like? thought Fenitchka.
"It was Geoff's doing! He saw I was fretting for you, and suggested that we should come to town and stay over the New Year at an hotel. There was not time to get the house ready. A whole week, Bridgie! Won't we talk! There are such oceans of things to tell you. Baby is beginning to speak!" "The precious mite!" Bridgie disentangled one hand and held it towards her brother-in-law in beaming welcome.
"So that pretty Merrill feller has gone, has he, mother?" inquired Old Kennebec that night, as he took off his wet shoes and warmed his feet at the kitchen oven. "Well, it ain't a mite too soon. I allers distrust that pink-an'-white, rosy-posy kind of a man. One of the most turrible things that ever happened in Gard'ner was brought about by jest sech a feller.
"Angus not only kept on the job but branched out into other mines that he bought up, and pretty soon he quit counting his money. You know what that would mean to most of his race. It fazed him a mite at first.
Nesta Fairfax turned her glowing face upon the child. 'You love it as much as I do, you little mite! she said; 'but you mustn't cry. Do you know where those words come from? She put her arms round her, and drew her to rest against her as she spoke, 'Yes, said Betty with a nod; 'I know all about them; I've read it sixty hundred times, I think, and I know that verse by heart.
Just look at him," said she, giving the mite another shake, although this time it was of a different description to the one she had first administered.
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