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He kept on working, his dark, sinewy hands flying over the sheets of leather, but the tears ran down his cheeks. Lloyd's emptied itself into the street, and surrounded Eva Loud and Ellen, who, running aimlessly, had come straight to her aunt. Jim Tenny was first.
She had one window of the north parlor in the Tenny cottage, which had been given up to her when she married Jim, filled with the little pink boxes containing the "Fairy Cream," and a great sign, but the trade languished. Both Eva and Jim had tried in vain to obtain employment in factories in other towns. Lloyd's had not reopened, although it was April, and Andrew was drawing on his savings.
C. D. Tenny, the president of the Tientsin University which had been begun by Li Hung-chang some ten or a dozen years before. It had a good course of study and was turning out a large number of young graduates for whom there ought to be a better future than that of interpreters in the various business houses of that and other cities. He therefore called Dr.
"I am afraid of my mamma, and I want papa!" screamed Amabel, quivering, and stiffening her slender back. Eva continued to keep her eyes fixed upon her, and to hold out that commanding hand. Fanny went close to her, seized her by both shoulders, and shook her violently. "Eva Tenny, you behave yourself!" said she.
But tenny rate, the upshot of the matter wuz that the nurse thought she would keep half of the Master's orders she wouldn't let The Little Maid out of her sight. So she hired a cab she had plenty of money, Elnathan didn't stent her on wages. He had his good qualities, Elnathan did.
Ellen liked Jim Tenny, but there was often that in her aunt's eyes regarding him which made Ellen look past him and above him to see if there was another man there. Ellen heard the fire crackling in the parlor-stove, and saw the light shining under the parlor threshold, and heard the soft hum of voices.
"You can't dig when the ground's froze hard," Eva said, with literal meaning. "Then I'll take a pickaxe," cried Jim. "You can dig, but who's goin' to pay you for the diggin'?" demanded Nahum Beals. "The idea of a girl's bein' afraid I wa'n't enough of a man to support a wife with an arm like that," said Jim Tenny, "as if I couldn't dig for her, or fight for her."
Fanny began to speak, but checked herself. She had heard rumors regarding Jim Tenny of late and had flown fiercely with denial at the woman who told her, and had not repeated them to her sister. She was thinking how she had heard that Jim had been seen driving in Wenham with Aggie Morse several times lately. Aggie Morse had been Aggie Bemis, Jim's old sweetheart.
The tears were streaming openly down her cheeks. "Oh, you poor girl, what have you been through?" she said. "What is it?" "I 'ain't got to go through anything more," said Eva, still with that rapt look over Amabel's little, fair head. "He's come back." "Eva Tenny!" "Yes, he has," Eva went on, with such an air of inexpressible triumph that it had almost a religious quality in it. "He has.
Eva used to put the money she earned surreptitiously into her husband's pockets that he might not feel his manly pride injured, but she defeated her own ends by her very solicitude. Jim Tenny began to reason that his wife saw his shame and ignominious helplessness, else she would not have been so anxious to cover it.
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