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"Well, it's to be a very small wedding," went on Betty, hastily, "with no cards, but announcements, but Ethel wrote me herself and she wants us all the Nassau ones, I mean and Mary Brooks, to come." "Jolly for Miss Hale!" cried Bob, tossing up two pillows this time. "How perfectly dear of her!" said Babbie. "The biggest turtle we can get won't be a bit too good for her," declared Babe.
But there was no storm this time to agitate Lady's nerves, and they kept clear of the river and the ferries; so everything went smoothly and the Moonshiners cantered up to the Club house at half past eight in the highest possible spirits. They could see the grove as they dismounted and every one but Babbie was surprised to find the fire already lighted.
He was rather quiet during this first call. Babbie did two-thirds of the talking. She felt it her duty as an older inhabitant to display "Uncle Jed" and his creations for her relative's benefit. Vanes, sailors, ships and mills were pointed out and commented upon. "He makes every one, Uncle Charlie," she declared solemnly. "He's made every one that's here and oh, lots and lots more.
Babbie looked at Gavin, and wondered he did not see that this decision lay with him. "Nevertheless," she said, "the wedding will take place to-morrow: if it did not, Lord Rintoul would be the scorn of his friends." "If it does," the minister answered, "he will be the scorn of himself. Babbie, there is a chance." "There is no chance," she told him.
"Just like ordinary men, isn't he?" whispered Fairy to Eugene Babler, called "Babbie," for short and for humiliation, for he enjoyed the reputation of being a "talker" even among college men! The three young couples struck off briskly down the road, creek-ward, and Prudence followed sedately with her professor.
How good of the Egyptian, he reflected, to go to the well for water, and thus save the old woman's arms! "Come along." said his desires, and marched him prisoner to the well. The path which Babbie took that day is lost in blaeberry leaves now, and my little maid and I lately searched for an hour before we found the well.
"You know this is the last fall you'll have here," Polly Eastman would say, pleading with Betty to come for a drive. "There's no such beautiful autumn foliage near Cleveland." Or, "You must come to our house dance," Babbie Hildreth would declare. "Just think how few Harding dances there are left for us to go to!"
"Ay," replied Nanny, spiritedly, "but there's dauring limmers wherever there's a single man." "So I have often suspected," said Babbie, duly shocked. "But, Nanny, I was told the minister had a wife, by one who said he saw her." "He lied, then," answered Nanny turning to Gavin for further instructions. "But, see, the minister does not deny the horrid charge himself."
"Jim said lunch, and it's nearly one o'clock now! Take your things off, Babbie, and lunch with us?" "Positively I mustn't, dear. I must be at home. I've to see the paperers at two o'clock, and to-morrow morning early, you know, we go back to the kiddies at the seaside." "And they're all well?" "Oh, splendid. Even Mary's out of doors all day, and digging in the sand!
"It is delightful here in the yard. Babbie and I will stay here a few minutes, if we may, and you must go back to your work, Mr. Winslow." But Jed, having put his foot in it, was ashamed to withdraw. He hastened to disclaim any intention of withdrawal. "No, no," he protested. "I don't need to go to work, not yet anyhow. I should be real pleased to show you the house, ma'am.
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