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Aloud he said something about its being too much trouble for Miss Bethia. "Trouble for a friend is the best kind of pleasure," said she. "And don't you worry. Your mother's clothes will bear to be looked at. Patches ain't a sin these days, but the contrary. Step a little spryer, can't you! We can visit all the same."
Children, if Miss Bethia is willing, shall we leave papa's precious books a little while with her?" "I shouldn't feel willing to get the good of your books for nothing." Mrs Inglis smiled. "You would take care of them." Miss Bethia hesitated, meditating deeply. "There would be a risk. What if my house were to take fire and burn down? What should I have to show for your books, then?"
But mamma doesn't say anything," added Violet, disconsolately. "We must sleep upon it, mamma thinks," said Jem. "We need not be in haste to decide upon it for a day or two," said Mrs Inglis. "I am afraid we must, mamma. The sooner the better, Mr Oswald says; and that is why I came to-day." "I wish you would come and keep house for me. I am getting tired of it," said Miss Bethia.
As for Miss Bethia, as she watched them she was wondering whether it could be the rough, thoughtless schoolboy, to whom she had so often considered it her duty to administer both instruction and reproof. She was not, as a general thing, very tolerant of boys.
"Mamma, I wish we could have gone home to-night," said he, when, in answer to his knock, she had opened the door. "It was late, dear, and Mr Bethune said he would like to see me before we went away." "About the books, mamma? I wish I knew about them." "You will know soon. I have no doubt they will be yours, as Miss Bethia intimated before we left them here. There may be some condition."
"He's chaffing, Aunt Bethia." "He's entirely welcome," said Miss Bethia, smiling grimly. "Though I don't see anything funny in the idea of David's being a minister, or you either, for that matter." "Funny! No. Anything but funny! A very serious matter that would be," said Jem. "We couldn't afford to have so many ministers in the family, Miss Bethia. I am not going to be a minister.
"And everybody is glad because of Davie," said Jessie. "I think Miss Bethia meant it for Davie to go to college and be a minister like papa, and that is why mamma is so glad, and all of us." "Nonsense! Miss Bethia meant it for mamma and all of us. She would have said it was for Davie, if she had meant it for him. Do you think Miss Bethia meant it for you, Davie?
But Miss Bethia took a great deal of good out of her money, or out of the use she made of it, and meant to make of it; and a great many people in Gourlay, and out of it, knew that she was neither hard nor a screw. And the book-case still stood up-stairs, and Miss Bethia took excellent care of the books, keeping the curtains drawn and the room dark, except when she had visitors.
If the Lord wants you for His service, He'll have you, and no mistake. There's the money, at any rate. Your mother will want you for the next five years, and you'll see your way clearer by that time, I expect." "And do you mean that the money is to be mine for the university whether I am to be a minister or not? I want to understand, Miss Bethia."
"And that means whatever you want to say to me, must be said at once, and the sooner the better," said Miss Bethia, as she took Mrs Inglis's heavy crape bonnet and laid it carefully in one of the deep drawers of the bureau in her room. "I haven't the least doubt but I know what he ought to say, and what she ought to say, better than they know themselves. But that's nothing.
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