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Sometimes I am almost afraid he will win me just by thinking he is going to." "Send him about his business! Don't keep up this folly, dear child!" "I would rather stand Absalom," she faltered, "than stand having you go away." "But, Tillie," he turned almost fiercely upon her "Tillie, I would rather see you dead at my feet than to see your soul tied to that clod of earth!"
Getz dared not go to the length of forbidding Absalom his house, for that would have meant a family feud between all the Getzes and all the Puntzes of the county. He could only insist that Tillie "dishearten him," and that she dismiss him not later than ten o'clock. To almost any other youth in the neighborhood, such opposition would have proved effectual.
If he was even standing beside a chair I could get a line on him. He may be only four feet high." "Then Miss Jennings wouldn't love him," declared Tillie. "How do you reckon he makes his mustache point up like that?" "What's love got to do with it?" I demanded. "Don't be a fool, Tillie.
Andersen tip-toeing past her door, she used to shrug her shoulders and wonder whether she was always to have a Tillie diving furtively about her in some disguise or other. At the dressmaker's Mrs. Andersen recalled Tillie even more painfully. After her first Sunday in Mr. Larsen's choir, Thea saw that she must have a proper dress for morning service.
A half-hour later, when her aunt and cousins had gone to bed, and while the august School Board still occupied the parlor, Tillie sat sewing in the sitting-room, while the doctor, at the other side of the table, nodded over his newspaper.
Of course, it doesn't do to say so to the children, you know. And of course he did right to punish her yesterday for giving way to temper. But today it was different. The others who were late should have been punished as well as Anne, that's what. And I don't believe in making the girls sit with the boys for punishment. It isn't modest. Tillie Boulter was real indignant.
At her household work Tillie was always bursting out with shrill snatches of song, and as suddenly stopping, right in the middle of a phrase, as if she had been struck dumb. She emerged upon the back porch with one of these bursts, and bent down to get her butter and cream out of the ice-box.
I'll soon get you to think different to what you think now. You just leave me set up with you a couple Sundays and see!" "I know I'll never think any different, Absalom. You must not suppose that I will." "Is it somepin you're got ag'in' me?" he asked incredulously, for he knew he was considered a prize. "I'm well-fixed enough, ain't I? I'd make you a good purvider, Tillie.
Meantime Tillie, with suddenly developed histrionic skill, was, by a Spartan self-sacrifice in submitting to Absalom's love-making, overcoming his wrath against the teacher.
What will your Miss Margaret say?" Tillie stopped short, her cheeks reddening. "What makes you think I am promised to Absalom?" "The fact is, I've only his word for it." "He told you that?" "Certainly. Isn't it true?" "Do YOU think so poorly of me?" Tillie asked in a low voice. He looked at her quickly. "Tillie, I'm sorry; I ought not to have believed it for an instant!"
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