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This beautiful, splendid, green book with gilt lettering and your name scrawled everywhere?" "The oldest baby looks a good deal like that photograph of me," continued Berta softly, "she is named after me, too. I wish you could see her. The way she holds up her little arms and clings to you! I haven't seen her since last September." "Hark!" Bea sprang from her perch on a desk-arm.
I fail to receive five dollars a month from home or even one dollar invariably; and I always walk to town and never enter the restaurant except to wait while you save ten cents by buying half a pound of caramels when you want to buy a whole pound." "They're forty cents a pound, Berta," objected scrupulous Robbie Belle. "I really saved twenty cents yesterday, you see."
But Ethelberta had not long been alone and in darkness when somebody gently opened the door, and entered without a candle. 'Berta, said the soft voice of Picotee again, 'may I come in? 'O yes, said Ethelberta. 'Has everything gone right with the house this evening?
They did not call me on the 24th until after Mother was dead; I should have so liked to see her once more. Good God, why should one die? If only I had been called Berta after her; but she did not wish that either of us should be called after her, nor did Father wish it in Oswald's case. May 19th.
'Yes, said Ethelberta quietly. 'How I should like to see you sitting at a grand dinner-table, among lordly dishes and shining people, and father about the room unnoticed! Berta, I have never seen a dinner-party in my life, and father said that I should some day; he promised me long ago.
An instant later she felt Bea sway against her and stand choking for breath, her hands to her chest. "It's croup," she gasped. "The doctor! Run!" Berta ran. She ran as she had never run before. Down the endless corridor and up the stairs, two steps at a time. Then a hail of frantic knocks on the doctor's door brought her rushing to answer.
'But, Berta, you are not going to marry any stranger who may turn up? said Picotee, who had creeping sensations of dread when Ethelberta talked like this. 'I had no such intention. But, having once put my hand to the plough, how shall I turn back? 'You might marry Mr. Ladywell, said Picotee, who preferred to look at things in the concrete.
'But is it not rather too brilliant in colour blue and red together, like that? Remember, as I often tell you, people in town never wear such bright contrasts as they do in the country. 'O Berta! said Cornelia, in a deprecating tone; 'don't object.
Berta swung Laura around in front of her and studied her curiously while she spoke. "You are a good steady worker, you understand. You have critical ability and a simple, sincere style. If elected you would make an excellent editor, but now listen, but, I say, you are not a genius like Lucine Brett. She is brilliant.
And then he said to Mother: Do you think it would bother you, Berta, to have Ada here? and Mother said, "Not a bit; if Gretel would like it; it's really her turn now, Dora came with me to Franzensbad, Oswald is having his walking tour, and only our little pet has not had anything for herself; would you like it Gretel?"
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