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She would sit making vain endeavours to arrange a large linen patch properly, till her cheeks were burning with excitement; and bend over a darn, doing her best to make invisible stitches, till Mrs. Vawse was obliged to assure her it was quite unnecessary to take so much pains. Taking pains, however, is the sure way to success.
For even Miss Fortune now and then told Ellen "she might take a piece of that cheese along with her;" or, "she wondered if the old lady would like a little fresh meat; she guessed she'd cut her a bit of that nice lamb; she wouldn't want but a little piece." A singular testimony this was to the respect and esteem of Mrs. Vawse had from everybody.
A little crowd had gathered in the street to see the fun. "I I'll give you whatever you think is right," promised Ikey. "Only let me go. I shall be late." "The late Mr. Stein," laughed Andy. "What about the rare satsuma piece you wished onto me?" demanded Ted. "And that cloisonne flower vawse that has a crack in it?" Thad wanted to know. "That's because it's so old," whined Ikey.
From motives of convenience, Alice had moved upstairs to a room that John generally occupied when he was at home, directly over the sitting-room, and with pleasant windows towards the east. Mrs. Chauncey, Miss Sophia, and Mrs. Vawse, were all there.
May I? I should like it dearly." "You shall do it surely, my child," said Mrs. Vawse. "Come with me, and I'll give you the pail and the milking-stool." When Alice and Ellen came in with the milk, they found the kettle on, the little table set, and Mrs. Vawse very busy at another table. "What are you doing, Mrs. Vawse, may I ask?" said Alice.
"That can be obtained without any difficulty." "From whom? I cannot ask Aunt Fortune for it, Mrs. Vawse; I could not do it." "There is no difficulty about the money. Show your letters to Mr. Humphreys." "Oh, I cannot!" said Ellen, covering her face again. "Will you let me do it? I will speak to him if you permit me." "But what use? He ought not to give me the money, Mrs. Vawse.
"What about your commission?" asked Thad, with a grin. "A mere nothing I must live, you know," and Ikey shrugged his shoulders. "Do you want it, Dunk? Why don't you fellows pick out something? You'll wait until they're gone and be kicking yourselves. They're dirt cheap bargains every one. Look at that vawse!" and he held up another to view in the pencil of light from the flash torch.
"What on earth's the use," said she, "of talking to a child that's out of her head? she can't hear reason; that's the way she gets into whenever the fever's on her. I have the pleasure of hearing that sort of thing all the time. Come away, Mrs. Vawse, and leave her; she can't be better any way than alone, and I am in the room every other thing she's just as well quiet.
All the same, it is a curiosity; dunno as I've seen a brass vawse just that shape before, and it's genuine old, though all these fellers are too ignorant to know the value of it. So I don't mind giving you the tip." Horace rose, the better to examine the top.
Who do you think came to see me? you'd never guess Nancy Vawse! Mr. Van Brunt came in the very nick of time, when I was almost worried to death with her. Only think of her coming up here unknown to every body! And she stayed an age, and how she did go on!
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