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This, then, was Montgomery's home and life, and why he who was so petted and indulged should put himself in hiding, and, of all places, in that dreadful "secret chamber," puzzled Alfaretta. "He told me not to tell Madam, an' he told me to bring his supper. How can I? How dast I? I I'd be more afraid to go up that stair 'an to walk through the graveyard alone at midnight.
"Yes," Helen answered, "it is the words. Don't you see how dreadful they are?" Alfaretta stood with her plump red hands on her hips, and regarded Mrs. Ward with interest. "I hadn't ever thought of 'em," she said. "Yes, ma'am. I suppose they are awful bad," and swinging back and forth on her heels, her eyes fixed meditatively on the ceiling, she said,
Such a group of radiant faces as now peered over the paling! while without a second's hesitation, Alfaretta announced: "I choose that pure white one for mine!" "All right. Captain Lem, lead out Blanca and put on her side saddle," directed Mr. Ford. A passage was opened in the paling and the beautiful Blanca was led forth, amid a murmur of admiration from everybody, except the girl herself.
That he was alive, somewhere, all were sure, and that he would return sometime or "when he gets good and ready," as Alfaretta coolly observed. "He seemed like a very odd chap, the little I saw of him," said Leslie, and did not regret the stranger's absence. Herbert was loyal and insisted that "Jim was a royal chap once he shook off his awkward shyness a bit.
It's only their clothes makes 'em look it, and as for that Molly, they call her, that's rid off on Chiquita, she's just as plain and folksy as get out! So's the red-headed one with the high-falutin' name, out of that song Pa sings about the 'blue Juniata' and 'bright Alfaretta, or some such trash. Them boys Well, they hain't took no notice o' me yet but I can show 'em a thing or two.
"Ain't she heard my prayers most all winter, till she give up comin' to prayer-meetin', preferrin' to stay outside, "'Where sinners meet, and awful scoffers dwell'? An' I've exhorted; but" the elder raised his eyes piously to heaven "Paul may plant and Apollos may water, but it don't do no good." Alfaretta knew her father's iron will too well to attempt any further protests.
How much of all that stuff do you really want?" "Not a scrap!" said Alfaretta, frankly. "Good enough! Well, let me tell you.
Madam could be so stately and grand that she must awe any intruder who looked upon her, and behind her black skirt the girl felt safer. "Scared, Alfaretta? How absurd! But coming so suddenly upon our quietude the summons surprised me. Take the candle from the side table and open the door."
"Put them around mine, Dolly Doodles, and quit wishin' for things you can't get. Do you s'pose I'll ever do it again?" asked Alfaretta, drawing one of Dorothy's arms about her own shoulder. "Do what again, child?" "Child, yourself. I mean fire right into the middle of the thing, and 'honest Injun', I did do it with my eyes shut. I wonder if that ain't the rightest way to sharpshoot, anyway.
Winters calls your conscience, 'n you did on his old head, an' it won't heal so quick, neither. I sure was ashamed of you, I sure was." This lecture had been in response to his appeal, as they chanced to stand together in the cloistered walk, waiting for supper: "You don't think very badly of me, do you, Alfaretta, for getting so angry?" The lad was very unhappy and very ashamed.
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