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Mis' Battis told Luther Goodell afterwards, that she "jest looked in from the next room, at that, and if ever a woman felt cheap all over and as if she hadn't a right to her own toes and fingers, and as if every thread and stitch on her turned mean, all at once it was Mrs. Gimp, that minit!" "Has Faith returned?" Mr. Armstrong asked, of Mrs. Gartney, after a little pause in which Mrs.
I should say she was taking it pretty hard," said the old lady. Mr. and Mrs. Gartney left home on Monday. Faith and Mis' Battis remained in the house a few hours after, setting all things in that dreary "to rights" before leaving, which is almost, in its chillness and silence, like burial array.
Faith, between her surprise, her pleasure, her embarrassment, the rush of old remembrance, and a quick, apprehensive thought of Mis' Battis and her probable arrangements, made almost an awkward matter of her reply.
Battis was an old schoolmate and neighbor "but she's powerful slow." "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Ecc. 9:10. "A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine."
Hendie was spoiled with having no lessons, and more toys and sugar plums than he knew what to do with. Mr. Selmore's comings and goings made special ebullitions, weekly, where was only a continuous lesser effervescence before. Mis' Battis had not been able to subside into an armchair since the last day of May. Faith found great favor in the eyes of her brother-in-law elect.
Gartney experienced an internal convulsion, but retained her outward composure. "I suppose you would quite as lief be called Parthenia?" "Ruther," replied the relict, laconically. And Mrs. Parthenia Battis was forthwith installed pro tem. in the Cross Corners kitchen. "She's got considerable gumption," was the opinion Luther volunteered, of his own previous knowledge for Mrs.
"Did she go out the door, ma'am? Or has she melted down into the carpet? 'Cause, I have heerd of people sinkin' right through the floor," said Mis' Battis, who "jest looked in" a second time, as the bewildered visitor receded.
Luther drove the sleigh close to the kitchen door, that Faith might not have to cross the yard to reach it, and she stepped directly from the threshold into the warm nest of buffalo robes; while Mis' Battis put a great stone jug of hot water in beside her feet, asserting that it was "a real comfortin' thing on a sleigh ride, and that they needn't be afraid of its leakin', for the cork was druv in as tight as an eye tooth!"
"I don't feel hungry." And she went away, upstairs. "'M!" said Mis 'Battis, significantly, to herself, running a released knitting needle through her hair, "don't tell me! I've been through the mill!" Half an hour after, she came up to Faith's door. "The minister's downstairs," said she. "Hope to goodness, he's had his supper!" "Oh, if I dared!" thought Faith; and her heart throbbed tumultuously.
And she sat in a rocking-chair and rocked all the time and she says her name is Miss Battis!" Mrs. Gartney looked rather perplexed than amused. "But, Faith! I can't think how she knew she must have been, listening Norah has been so horribly angry! And she's upstairs packing her things to go right off. How can we be left without a cook?" "It seems Miss McGonegal means to demonstrate that we can!
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