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"All this was nuts to Mis Bascum, and she kep' advisin' and encouragin' of me, and I didn't see through her a mite, or guess that settin' folks by the ears was as relishin' to her as bitters is to some. Merciful, suz! what a piece a work we did make betwixt us!
Then we are picked at for their doin's, and Mr. Power has to carry other folkses' sins on his shoulders. But, dear suz, it ain't much matter after all, ef the souls is well-meanin'. Children always make a noise a strivin' after what they want most, and I shouldn't wonder ef the Lord forgive all our short-comin's of that sort, sense we are hankerin' and reachin' for the truth."
Little did innocent Prudy dream of the queer thoughts which were chasing one another in her little sister's brain. After she and Susy had gone, and the house was quite still, Dotty stood at the window, looking down street. It was a lovely day; the clouds were "softer than sleep." "O, my suz!" said Dotty Dimple; "there they go, way off, way off, Susy and Prudy. Bof of 'em are all gone.
Pouring a generous dose into a glass, she diluted it with water and was returning to the bed when Katharine caught her hand to stay it, crying: "Why, Susanna! How dare you? That's marked poison!" The widow shook the girl's hand off, calmly replying: "My suz! I guess I know what I'm about.
What then?" asked Miss Maitland. "Well, I went. I run 'most all the way. I got there an' he wasn't. He wasn't at all!" "Do you mean that he had left the cottage?" "My suz! I should think he has. He's left, an' my log-cabin quilt's left, an' my best feather tick, an' pillows, an' a pair blankets that kitchen-bedroom bedstead's stripped as clean as 'twas the day it was born I mean, sot up.
It struck a stone and broke and right quick a couple of cows close to the grenade sort of crumpled up and laid down, and some more, and then one on the outskirts of the group looked around and said, 'Dear me suz, it gets late early now! and she put her head on her arm, and went sleepy sleepums " "It's too wonderful; too wonderful!" mused Elinor.
Pierce returned, she was astonished to see her patient sitting up in bed, with almost a flush on her cheeks, and a glad light in her eyes. "Lawful suz!" she cried in the doorway, "what have you done to her?" "Fed her," laughed Sara; "and I have been helping her to take my prescriptions, you see. Won't you join us?" "Well, I'm beat! Thank you guess I will. Was that all't ailded her jest hunger?"
He kissed her hurriedly on the ear and then on the check and lips. Then he released her as Porky came bolting around the table. Mr. Potter, grinning with happiness, was feeling on the floor for his glasses; Mrs. Potter's eyes bright with joy. "Why, how you do take on! Dear me suz!" "Gee, but it's good to get home!" said the twins together. Porky went back and sat on the arm of his father's chair.
But he didn't wonder very long. For, as soon as he had gotten up, and had washed his paws and face, and combed out his ears oh, dear me I mean his whiskers as soon as he had done that, he heard a knock on the door. "Oh, my, suz dud and a bottle of milk!" exclaimed the old gentleman rabbit. "I hope that isn't the scary-flary alligator again."
She was not much used to children, and this one was of a sort so novel that she made one uncomfortable. She'd have given "Johnny's girl" the old egg-basket instead of this "meeting" one, could she have foreseen results. But she could and did bring the girl out of the clouds with the exclamation: "My suz! You're enough to give a body the creeps.
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