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I'm living up North River way and have a house full of children like steps and one grandchild, and I'm just on the eve of thirty-seven. I've one little girl about your age, but she's ever so much bigger. I'd like you to be friends with her. The next older is a girl, too. Why, you'd have real nice times if the old aunties were willing. Do they keep her strict?
As she had been there a week, the excitement attendant on her arrival had so far subsided that grandma was beginning to turn her attention to cheese-making, her two aunties to sew vigorously on their new cambric dresses, and grandpa and the big hired man to become so engaged in the "haying" that they scarcely saw Lily-toes except at supper-time.
"Can I never have Auntie Dora again?" she asked, pitifully. "My little darling, in a long, long while. But there will be new aunties and a grandmamma." "I don't want any one but just you." And she kissed him with a trembling eagerness that touched his heart. Suddenly a new and exquisite emotion thrilled him. This little morsel of humanity was all his.
Lily-toes, as if to make amends for being the fourth, was a lovely chubby baby of eight months, so full of sunshine and content and blessed good health, that although her two first teeth were just grumbling through, she would sit in her high chair by the window or roll and wriggle about on the floor, singing tuneless songs and telling herself wordless stories, an hour at a time, without making any demands on anybody, so that grandma and the aunties declared that half the time they would not know there was a baby in the house.
In the distance Grannie and the Aunties could be seen climbing the slope of the Heath to Judges' Walk. They were not, Dorothy protested, pathetic; they were simply beastly. She hated them for worrying her mother. "They think I oughtn't to have taken Ronny. They think Nicky'll want to marry her." "But Ronny's a kid " "When she's not a kid." "He won't, Mummy ducky, he won't.
Ranny and the aunties were his allies, and even if Miss Nell didn't care for him yet, she didn't care for anybody else, and when a girl like Miss Nell looks at a fellow the way she had looked at him At this rapturous point he invariably abandoned cold prose for poetry and burst into song.
She is oddly exclusive and delicate, even chary about herself, but alone with her father she is all childish abandon. There is a stir about the house presently, and Grandon begins to retrace his steps. "Don't go," entreats Cecil. "My dear, we must have breakfast. Grandmamma and the aunties will be waiting." "Are they going to live there always!" with an indication of the fair head.
You could never tell what Nicky would take it into his head to do. There was no guile in Michael. But sometimes there was guile in Nicky. Frances was always on the look out for Nicky's guile. So when Michael remarked that Grannie and the Aunties would be there immediately and Nicky said, "Mummy, I think my ear is going to ache," her answer was "You won't have to stay more than a minute, darling."
"It rests one so much. Are you hungry? We shall have dinner in half an hour." "Oh, no," Cynthia said. "And and I am very much obliged to Susan." "Come and sit here. Tell me how the aunties are the one with the broken limb." "I think she isn't so well. Yesterday she was so much improved. The doctor was there this morning." "Poor lady! She has been ill a long while.
Brant, nevertheless, looked them over with an experienced eye, and satisfied himself of their trustworthiness; there was the usual number of "boys," gray-haired and grizzled in body service, and the "mammys" and "aunties" of the kitchen.
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