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"To Washington, to school. He prepares there for West Point. He has a trying period before him, and much hard work. Be sure to put on rubbers and big coats. It is very cold to-day." Blue Bonnet and Carita were off in a trice. Alec met them at the stile. "Was just coming over to see you," he said, shaking hands. "All right. We'll go back." "No, come along. Grandfather is expecting this visit."
"And it is so wet," said Peggy, as she looked at the falling rain; "she'll get drenched without any rubbers or raincoat." "You can be sure she is under shelter somewhere. A cat can always look out for herself." "But, mother, I'm worried about her." "I think," said Mrs. Owen, as she put the oatmeal into the double-boiler, "that she has gone back to her old home."
In such a mood, and through the drifting mist of a complaining October afternoon, in rubbers and a raincoat, I started out with Lucy for her afternoon tea. The other guests wore raincoats, too we met a few on the way with dull-colored suits underneath, and tailored hats. There wasn't a single bright, frivolous thing about that tea.
I'm sure my rubbers were a perfect insult." Sylvia sat down, tugged on one boot and fell into a reverie with the other in her hand, while Prue clacked on like a wordmill in full operation. "How I'm ever to get all these gowns into that trunk passes my comprehension. There's a tray for each, of course; but a ball dress is such a fractious thing.
By the light of our acetylene lamp we had dined, and there had been two rubbers of bridge, the colonel and the little American doctor bringing about the downfall of Wilde, the signalling officer, and myself, in spite of the doctor's tendency to finesse against his own partner. The doctor had never played bridge before joining us, and his mind still ran to poker.
There were rough red coats and capes, red mittens, squirrel caps pulled well down over curly and smooth heads; glimpses of red woolen stockings; thick shoes with rubbers over them; great parcels of books in straps. They looked like a flock of cardinal birds, Mother Carey thought, as the upturned faces, all aglow with ruddy color, smiled their morning good-bye.
"You ought to wear rubbers every day," she chided him, as she went away again. Soon Henrietta returned once more to urge the Rooster to carry an umbrella. And it wasn't long after that when she came bustling up to him and informed him that a warm muffler about his throat wouldn't be amiss. There seemed to be no end to her suggestions. "Great cracked corn!" he exclaimed.
"I should give mother some new rubbers, and then I should buy a white apron, with frills like Miss Kent's, and bring home nice bunches of grapes and good things to eat, as Mr. Chrome does. I often smell them, but he never gives me any; he only says, 'Hullo, chick! and I'd rather have oranges any time." "It will take us a long while to get rich, I'm afraid. It makes me tired to think of it.
"Good-bye, my dear," Aunt Olivia said, steadily, though her lips were white. "Good-bye, Aunt Olivia," Rebecca Mary Plummer said, steadily. "I'm very MUCH obliged to you for sending me." "You're welcome. Don't forget to wear your rubbers. I put in some liniment in case you need it don't get any in your eyes."
"Oh, we'll wear rubbers," was Anne's concession to practicalities. "And I want you to come over early Saturday morning and help me prepare lunch. I'm going to have the daintiest things possible . . . things that will match the spring, you understand . . . little jelly tarts and lady fingers, and drop cookies frosted with pink and yellow icing, and buttercup cake.
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