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However, if you think yourself above being useful, I hope you will not delay in getting someone else here, for you know you could not have driven me out at a more inconvenient time, for there is literally nothing cooked in the house." "But where are you going? Not to auntie's with Louie, surely?" "No. I should not like auntie to have a worse opinion of you than she has already.
I inquired. "Comes out! I should think so! It's like little black spots all over auntie's face. such a guy as she looks in it!" "And Colonel Clay is in them too?" "Yes; I took them when he and auntie were talking together, without either of them noticing. And Bertie developed them. I've three of David Granton. Three beauties; most successful." "Any other character?" I asked, seeing business ahead.
"If I had, I should have missed dear Auntie's home-coming, and Dicky's." She glanced up with luminous eyes as she whirled the sheet. Mrs. Chatterton, astonishing as it may seem, was actually smiling. "It's some comfort to hear you read," she observed with a sigh of enjoyment, "because you enjoy it yourself. I wouldn't give a fig for anybody to try to do it."
But now he could see, even from his auntie's affrighted demeanour alone, that the Benbows' visit was an independent affair. "Are you sure he's all right?" Albert questioned, in his superiorly sagacious manner, which mingled honest bullying with a little good-nature. "Because Albert just heard " Clara put in again. The company then heard what Albert had just heard.
Well, that's something." "I knew it when I came here." "Knew you would be no good at the job?" "At this job, yes." "Then for heaven's sake why did you take it?" "I told you. Aunt Clarissa wanted me to." "Well, you can't stay here, that's all. I'm sorry." "So am I, for Auntie's sake and yours. I realize I have made you a lot of ah trouble." "Oh, that's all right, that's all right.
But Billy hadn't a string. "I'll run up to the house and get some," said Cricket, darting away. She was back in a few minutes, with a small pasteboard box in her hand. "This is better than string," she panted. "I got auntie's little box of rubber bands. Now we can count. Never mind holding your hand up, for I can begin anywhere."
I can't take you, all dripping like that, into the house to Eliza, because she's with Kenneth, and auntie's lying down, and I don't suppose Delia would know what to do with you." "Hang them both up over the clothes-line to dry," suggested Cricket, darkly eying the chief culprit. "Dear me! how you do smell!" "I don't like it pretty well," admitted Zaidee, sniffing at her hands.
Then the room grew very still and peaceful and Jean's heart did too and through the silence there came a voice so tender and loving so gentle that the auntie's eyes were full of tears, and Jean wanted to listen forever, and the voice said, "Jean, inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye did it unto ME." By Aunt Hede, in "Kindergarten Magazine"
But Auntie's an original old girl, take it from me. "She ain't countin' on draggin' you off on this batty gold-diggin' excursion, is she?" I asks the other evenin', as I was up makin' my reg'lar Wednesday night call. Vee shrugs her shoulders. "I'm sure I don't know," says she.
But if she had been a nasty girl, she would not have made such a marriage; instead of being anxious to secure respectability, however humble, she would have followed Auntie's suggestions and looked out for another protector instead of for a husband. And she had wanted to tell Dale the whole truth; but there again she had been overruled.
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