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"Mamma, mamma!" said Amabel again. "She has grown so tall," panted Eva. Fanny went up to her and tried gently to loosen her grasp of the little girl. In her heart she was not yet quite sure of her. This fierceness of delight began to alarm her. "Of course she has grown tall, Eva Tenny," she said. "It's quite a while since you were taken sick." "I ain't sick now," said Eva, in a steady voice.
"Oh, we'll never get that out so we can use it," said Charlie Tenny, one of the boys who was helping Ben, Bunker and the others. "Yes, we'll get it out," said Ben. "We've got Bunny Brown to help us you know." Some of the boys laughed, and Bunny's face grew red. "Now I mean just what I say!" cried Ben.
'Tenny rate she was tall and slim and had lots of long brown hair. She wore a blue silk skirt and there was a rope tied around her waist, as if somebody had tried to save her. "Taking a long pole he prodded an air-hole near the center of the smoldering heap, from which now issued a frightful smell, that caused a hasty retreat to the windward side.
"Eva Tenny, you tell me this minute what the matter is." Then Eva raised herself on one elbow, and disclosed a face distorted with wrath and woe, like a mask of tragedy. "He's gone! he's gone!" she shrieked out, in an awful, shrill voice, which was like the note of an angry bird. "He's gone!" "For God's sake, not Jim?" "Yes, he's gone! he's gone! Oh, my God! my God! he's gone!"
There were muslin-curtained side-lights to the door. Then the door opened, and little Amabel Tenny stood there holding a small kerosene lamp carefully in both hands. She held it in such a manner that the light streamed up in Robert's face and nearly blinded him. He was dimly conscious of a little face full of a certain chary innocence and pathos regarding him.
C. D. Tenny to draw up and put into operation a similar schedule for the metropolitan province.
"Eva Tenny," said she, "you behave yourself. What if he has run away? You ain't the first woman whose husband has run away. I'd have more pride. I wouldn't please him nor her enough. If he's as bad as that, you're better off rid of him." Eva turned on her sister, and her calm broke up like ice under her fire of passion.
If what McGrath said was true, that Lloyd's losing money keeping on, I dunno how we can expect him or any other man to do that." "Why not he lose money as well as we?" demanded Nahum, fiercely. "'Cause we 'ain't got none to lose," cried Jim Tenny, with a hard laugh, and Eva and Fanny echoed him hysterically. Nahum took no notice of the interruption.
The business was then carried on during a short time by Clark Tenny, who was followed by Lemuel Lakin, and afterward by Francis Shattuck, a son of Daniel, for another brief period. About the year 1833 it was given up entirely as a public house, and thus passed away an old landmark widely known in those times.
"There ain't no need of your acting this way if your man has run away with another woman, and as for that child goin' with you, she sha'n't go one step with any woman that looks and acts as you do. Actin' this way over a good-for-nothin' fellow like Jim Tenny!" Again that scourge of the spirit aroused Eva to her normal state. She became a living, breathing, wrathful, loving woman once more.