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Billy let out a long whistle of astonishment. “Great Scott, what a coast!” he said. In the middle of the street was a ribbon of ice three feet wide and as smooth as glass. At the foot of the hill, a piled-up mound of snow served as a buffer. “The boys have been working on the slide all day,” Rosie said. “Did you ever see such a nice one, Maida?”
The man, whose name proved to be Enoch Willis, was a marvelous hand at a blow, and she kept him a week, splitting some pine knots that defied her and the boy who ordinarily chopped her wood. At the end of the week, Amelia confessed that she was "terrible tired seein' Rosie round in that gormin' kind of a dress;" so she cut and fitted her a neat little gown from her own red cashmere.
"You must not talk like that, Rosie. Cheer up! You're too young to talk about dying. Think what I've been through, and I'm still alive! I'll run over tomorrow, or next day, and try to cheer you up a bit, little girl. So long. I've got to see the doctor. I'm I'm suffering like the dickens." "I mustn't keep you, Courtney," she murmured, stepping aside to let him pass. "Good night!
It will be your turn next, Rosie," said Arthur, as he went away laughing. "But that is all nonsense about Arthur and little Miss Grove?" said Rose, half questioningly. "I should think so, indeed! Fancy Arthur coming to that fate," said Graeme. "That would be too absurd."
"Just as the country was shaking off the yoke they represented," laughed Rosie. "A good omen, wasn't it, Brother Levis?" "So it would seem, viewed in the light of after events," he answered with a smile. "Papa, can't we visit Hampton?" asked Lulu eagerly. "Yes, if you would all like to do so," was the reply, in an indulgent tone and with an inquiring glance at the older members of the party.
"It ain't as I fears to trust 'er with you, sir," she also remarked about three times a week, "for I knows, sir, you're a gentleman. But it's the neighbours; they never can mind their own business. I told 'em you was going to give my Rosie lessons, and you know, sir, that they will talk of what don't concern 'em. And, after all, sir, it's an hour, and an hour is sixty minutes, ain't it, sir?"
Yet I was still suspicious, and the money stayed in the attic. Doc was too bright a man to have left home without a reason. Things went on as usual for a long time business middling, Doc rounding up the bars, Rosie raising Cain occasionally, or snarling and muttering in the hammock just as the humor took her.
Peter, knew, of course that it was Miriam who had set Rosie Stern after him and brought about his downfall. Still, he could not help but be moved by her appearance. She looked haggard and old, and she had a cough, and her eyes were wild and crazy.
It so happened that Rosie's mother, passing through the hall below at the moment, overheard her mocking words to Lulu. "Rosie," she called, and the little girl perceived a grieved tone in the sweet voice, "come here, daughter." "Yes, mamma, dear, what is it?" Rosie asked lightly, descending the stair. "Come into my dressing-room; I want to talk to you."
That evening Max, Lulu, Rosie, and Evelyn were in the schoolroom at Viamede, preparing their lessons for the morrow, when a servant came up with a message for Lulu; she was wanted in the library. Flushing hotly, and looking a good deal disturbed, Lulu pushed aside her books and rose to obey the summons. "Only Miss Lulu? nobody else, Jim?" asked Rosie.
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