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"Why, Jim, how could you be so absurd," she protested indignantly. "I've been saving money for a month to give Nan this chance to return some courtesies she has received from rich friends. I need Mr. Bivens's money to pay the rent of this big house. But any attention on his part to Nan would be disgusting to me beyond measure."
"I should think that would cure anybody," cried Nan, who loved her liberty above all things. "It did cure me, and I think it will you, so I am going to try it," said Mrs. Jo, suddenly taking a ball of strong twine out of a drawer in her work-table. Nan looked as if she was decidedly getting the worst of the argument now, and sat feeling much crestfallen while Mrs.
One pretty little cow tried to put her head out through the bars, and Bert managed to give her a couple of crackers from his pocket. She nibbled them up and bobbed her head as if to say: "Thank you, I was very hungry." "They are awfully crowded," Nan ventured, "and it must be dreadful to be packed in so. How do they manage to get a drink?"
Nan understood although Rhoda did not say as much that her mother had personally conducted much of her education until the last two years. Then she had had a governess. The latter seemed to have been an English woman with rather old-fashioned ideas. Rhoda was grounded well in certain branches and densely ignorant in others which Dr. Prescott considered essential. And in the athletic classes!
"Oh I can't," she exclaimed, hastily, "I ain't I don't want anything." "Ain't ye hungry?" demanded Tode in a masterful tone. "N not much," stammered Nan, but the boy saw a hungry gleam in her eyes as she glanced at the food. "Y'are, too! Now you jest put that out o' sight in a hurry!" But Nan shook her head.
That is one of the grand points about one's memory; you forget all the trivial details and discomforts, and only remember the best. He quite naturally turned to Nan. 'I am sure, Miss Nan, he said, 'you have quite a series of beautiful little pictures in your mind about that Splügen excursion.
"Fine!" cried all the Bobbsey twins at once, and they made a rush for Mr. Bobbsey, hugging and kissing him. The letter was sent to the fat lady, and then came a time of anxious waiting. Never before had the children seemed to care so much for Snap. One day a letter came, saying that the silver cup had been sent, and also Snoop, the cat. "But what about Snap, papa?" asked Nan.
Suppose you lie down in there, and she pointed to the room which was boarded off behind. 'Whose bed is it? he asked. 'Father's, when he gets time to lie in it, was the answer. 'But he can't if I'm there, said Jimmy. 'He's got a lot to do before he thinks of bed, exclaimed Nan. 'He's got to see to the horses. But I'll lie down as soon as we start, and presently father and I'll change places.
'I heard people say she was a man-of-war. 'That is the Fly-by-Night. 'Oh, indeed, said Nan, with no greater interest than before. 'And Lieutenant King has just called here, the elder sister said, pointedly. 'Oh, indeed, said Nan. 'I wish I had been in; I should like to have seen him in uniform.
But among them, too, were treasures from the swamp and woods that were both very wonderful and very beautiful. Old Toby had made Corson a neatly fitted cabinet in which were specimens of preserved butterflies and moths, most of them of the gay and common varieties; but some, Nan was almost sure, were rare and valuable.
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