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I know he'll be as pleased as Punch to see ye." "Are you sure of that?" "Wait till you see how he takes to ye," declared her reassuring uncle. "Now, lemme git my apern on and set to work on supper." "Can't I help, Cap'n Abe?" "In them things?" the storekeeper objected. "Well I'll have plenty of house dresses when my trunks come. I left my checks at the station for a man named Perry Baker.
'He kept sayin' things, an' 'bout all we could understand was "Daddy, daddy," an' then she throwed her apern over her face, an' " David tipped his hat a little farther over his eyes, though, like many if not most "horsey" men, he usually wore it rather far down, and leaning over, twirled the whip in the socket between his two fingers and thumb.
Look at the apern she's got on! Laws, man! you surely dunna want our 'Azel for your missus? 'Yes. Edward was nettled and embarrassed. 'Well, 'er's only eighteen. He looked Hazel over appraisingly, as he would have looked at a heifer. 'Still, I suppose she's an 'ooman growed. Well, you can take her. I dunna mind. When d'you want her? I shall ask her when she will wish to marry me.
"Push that thing in the middle on one side, Burrill," he said. "It's too high. I can't see Miss Alicia." Burrill found it difficult to believe the evidence of his hearing. "The epergne, sir? " he inquired. "Is that what it's called, an apern? That's a new one on me. Yes, that's what I mean. Push the apern over." "Shall I remove it from the table, sir?" Burrill steeled himself to exact civility.
"W'y, if it wouldn't be kind o' nice to have some one around, even if she wa'n't very pretty, and was ignorant, if she was willin' to learn, an' would always be good to you, to have things kind o' cheerful at night your supper ready; a light lit; dry boots warmed by the stove; your bed made up nice, and maybe warmed when it was cold: even if she happened to be wearin' an old apern like this if you knowed she was thinkin' in her thankful heart of the bashful boy that give it to her back along the road when she was ragged and ashamed of herself every time a stranger looked at her!"
It seems like their front door was open; and the collie he made for it, hollering every jump, and Peanut after him. He chases him plumb up the steps and clear into the house, and that was all we could see for a while, except Bonnie Bell standing in her cap and apern, looking across.
It was getting spring by now sort of raw weather once in a while; but the grass was getting green, and some of Bonnie Bell's flowers she had planted was beginning to show up through the ground, and once in a while she would go out, in old clothes mostly, with maybe a cap and a apern and fuss round with her flowers. She wouldn't never look across at the Wisner house.
She disliked wrecks of meals, and the way for her to feel at home was to do nothing at all. She began awkwardly to take up the silver. "No, no, don't do it, Miss Lacey." Mrs. Lem perceived at once the unaccustomed touch, and her New York hypothesis was strengthened. "You hain't any apern, and I do think," with an airy laugh, "you might git unpacked afore they set you to work."
But she is out of the room and down at the door before we can stop her, all in her gingham apern and cap, like she is then; for she had been looking after the housecleaning though William looks at her sad for not being dressed up more. We went to the window and looked out. All at once we heard a awful barking going on down there, and we seen what had happened.
"Purty things I always would have," exclaimed the bulldog-bodied woman, with an oath; "bright things I loved when I was a gal, and traded what I had away fur 'em. Direckly I got big, I traded ugly things fur 'em, like niggers. I'd give a shipload of niggers fur an apern full of roses." "Florida, they say, is beautiful, grandma, and flowers are everywhere there."
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