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"I feel as if I'd had an adventure with a bear," said she, half-laughing, half-resentful. "So you did," declared he; "I'm a bear and every other sort of animal except rabbit. There's no rabbit in me. Now, your men the Grant Arkwrights are all rabbit." "At least," said she, "do refrain from tearing my hair down. A woman who does her hair well hates to have it mussed."
She was indeed an indefatigable teacher, and had a real ambition for the success of her pupils, which, in the drudgery of her life, was almost grand. Strange to say, she once came to the Vicarage. It was during the summer succeeding that in which I came to live with the Arkwrights.
Here, where the ways forked, their road leading through the great forests to the Atlantic, they separated, and many tears were shed on each side. What might be the future life of the Arkwrights had not been absolutely fixed, but there was a strong hope on their part that they might never be forced to return to Costa Rica.
"Just a teeny bit came off to start with; Tom Marston caught his toe in it, and went, galloping the whole length of the room carrying it with him and his partner before I could stop him. Oh, how I laughed!" "Mama won't laugh! She said you must wear the same frock at the Arkwrights' dance next week." "The white silk, underneath, is all right look! Only a new net skirt over it.
He was in the room when Jack and I were talking, but he was not talking with us. He was reading for his examination. All the Arkwrights can work through noise and in company, having considerable powers of mental abstraction. I think they even sometimes combine attention to their own work with an occasional skimming of the topics current in the room as well.
Some were to be dropped before we reached town; one lived in London; and Eleanor and I had to wait for half-an-hour before catching a train for the north. For I was going to Yorkshire. The Arkwrights had asked me to spend the holidays with Eleanor. There was now nothing to be done but for us to go up together, all unexpected as we were.
She called up the Arkwrights, asked for Grant. "Wake him," she said. "If he is still in bed tell him Miss Severence wishes to speak to him at once." Within a moment Grant's agitated voice was coming over the wire: "Is that you, Rita? What is the matter?" "Come out here as soon as you can. How long will it be?" "An hour. I really must shave." "In an hour, then. Good-by."
"Why, right in front o' dis house, dat's wha; ever' day when dat hussy passes up to de Arkwrights', wha she wucks. She pokes along an' walls her eyes roun' at dis house lak a calf wid de splivins." "That going on now?" "Ever' day." A deep uneasiness went through the old man. He moistened his lips. "But Peter said " "Good Gawd! Mars' Renfrew, whut diff'ence do it make whut Peter say?
The English have among them also, strange as it may seem to the cursory observer, a great gift of organizing; witness their Arkwrights and others: and this gift they may often, in matters Naval more than elsewhere, get the chance of exercising.
Matilda generally added a note also; and Aunt Theresa always sent love and kisses in abundance, to atone for being too busy to write by that post. The fonder I grew of the Arkwrights, the better I seemed to love and understand Uncle Buller.
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