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Here's for it!" shouted the happy boy, and leaped forward into the night and the storm, which silently received him. "Whew! I've never seen such a storm since I lived in Baltimore city!" cried John Johns, looking out of the window, early on the morning following Molly's visit to Miss Armacost. "It snows as if it never meant to stop. How still it is, too!
It sounds like a summons." All fell perfectly silent for the space of a half-minute, maybe; then Molly burst forth with a thought she had been pondering: "What a good thing it was that Miss Armacost had Sir Christopher buried last night, before this snow came! If she hadn't I don't know what she would have done. But I believe that bell is from her house.
She had her mouth full of buttons, and I don't know how many she'd swallowed. I really don't. She was tasting them to see if they were candy. There was a small cork in the bag, and I declare! if that child hadn't put that up her nose! Such mischiefs! Over two years old, and ought to know better! "So, that's what kept me, Miss Armacost.
Does he always have his table set in that way? Won't he break the saucer? He's fumbling it all around, and he's as stiff in his joints as father ever was the very worst day he's had. I'll run and get " But Miss Armacost held up a protesting hand. "Don't trouble, I beg. Sir Christopher is past cure. Besides, I could not endure the odor of any liniment. He has had the best advice in the city.
Everybody shall clear out except you and me," said the physician, pulling a brown paper parcel from beneath his arm and tossing it upon the foot of the cot. So Miss Armacost and nurse Brady went away and the doctor closed the door behind them. Then he unfastened the mysterious parcel and spread before Towsley's wondering gaze a complete suit for a boy of Towsley's size.
It would not do, she considered, to begin too sternly or suddenly in the reconstruction of her charge. She simply replied: "Yes. She is generous and lovable. She has excellent common sense." Towsley found his tongue and launched into praise of the whole family of Johns, with such graphic pictures of their daily life that Miss Armacost felt well acquainted with the entire household.
Never heard of you, indeed. But then I had a chance to help you, and right away I liked you. So I've been down-town, this afternoon, and bought you this outfit. Between you and me, Towsley, I shouldn't care for the velvets, either. But they must have been all that Miss Armacost had on hand and so she gave them to you. These I'm not giving; I'm simply advancing.
She had come as soon as possible, which had not, however, been very promptly, because it was market morning for her mother, and a few of the to-be-expected accidents had befallen the twins. "You see, Miss Armacost," said Molly, in explanation, "I was just whisking down the kitchen to make all tidy for mother, and had put Ivanora on one side the table and Idelia on the other.
There'd be plenty of room, for she takes 'mealers' extra. Oh! if you say so I'll run and call her over. Do you?" Miss Armacost felt, for one brief moment, as if she were being turned out of her own abode. When she decided to adopt Towsley, she did not decide to open her doors to the whole of Side Street, or even Newspaper Square.
I think he'd feel more comfortable if I did." "Certainly, if you like. Please help yourself, since Mary has gone on my errand. No, I thank you. I do not care for any." Miss Armacost caught the astonishment in Towsley's eyes as she thus indifferently declined ice-cream, and was amused by it.
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