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There was the pink-checked one and the brown-checked one and the prettiest one of all, the one with teenty little white checks marked off with buff. The one she should feel if she put out her hand was a blue-checked. Margaret drove her hands deep into the matted grass; she would not put them out. It was it was terrible! Now she understood it all. She remembered things.
That had been such a beautiful surprise, but this Aunt 'Livia had seen the quilt so many, many times! She had taught Rebecca Mary's stiff little fingers to set the first stitches in it; she had made her rip out this purple square and that pink-checked one, and this one and that one and that. Oh, Aunt 'Livia was ACQUAINTED with the quilt! It would not be much of a surprise.
There was a rosy Swedish girl sitting on the floor of a shop window opposite and washing the glass. She had moved the fresh vegetables aside and planted herself in the midst of them. There she sat among the cabbages and turnips and other sweet things just out of the earth; piles of delicate green lettuce buds, golden carrots bursting into feathery tops, ruddy beets, and pink-checked.
Then she found herself in a big, pleasant bed-room, and beyond was the open door of a tiled bath-room. "Oh oh!" she said, and dropped down sideways on the whiteness of the brass bed, and put her arms around the pillow and her head, hat and all, on it. "Poor child!" said pink-checked, motherly Mrs. Mooney. "You're more than tired, that I can see without trying, and no wonder, too!
Then it was that a small, pink-checked cyclone whirled through the rows of closely packed humanity and half-way round the arena to the curtain, while above the clamor of the band arose a shrill cry; "Jim! Jim!" "Did you see her?" The lady who had commented upon the rider's appearance demanded of the gentleman beside her. "She called him Jim, too; isn't that odd?
And I remember him pulling his fine beard into two darknesses huge-sleeved, pink-checked chemise walking kindly like a bear corduroy bigness of trousers, waistline always amorous of knees finger-ends just catching tops of enormous pockets. When he feels, as I think, partly happy, he corrects our pronunciation of the ineffable Word saying "O, May-err-DE!" and smiles.
On they charged like a stampeded herd, a-screechin' like a run-away freight wagon with dry axles, while that pink-checked tenderfoot stood in his tracks, as calm an' cool as the North Star, until they arrived at the proper distance, an' then he sorted out the big one in the center an' dove for his legs.
James Abbott must be paid back for the little pink-checked frock and the hat with the green bow, and then she would drop from his sight. Surely in that great city, with its hundreds and hundreds of people, she would be able to disappear.
Meanwhile Amy Blackford, the last of the trio to whom the dark-haired, pink-cheeked little person who was Betty Nelson had telephoned, had stopped merely to remove the apron from in front of her pink-checked gingham dress and was now flying along the two short blocks that separated her house from the Nelsons'. As for poor Mollie Billette, she was nearly distracted.
Pushing forward, we soon saw the little inn shining forth a mile farther up the valley a small white chalet, with the pink-checked feather beds hanging to air in the upper gallery. Moidel looked grave over the dinner which the interposition of Ignaz had prepared for us.
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