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Elizabeth thought of Betsey's dismissal of her and laughed. "My drive has done me good." She stayed a good while and enjoyed every minute of it. It was a great rest and pleasure to listen to Mrs Fleming's cheerful talk, with Katie's quiet mother putting in a word, and now and then Katie herself. Neither Katie nor Davie were at the school this winter.
King was only in time to meet her on the stairs, and tell her that he was so weak and low, that he could not be seen now, she could not tell how it would be when he had had his tea. Ellen thought she had never had so distressing a tea-drinking in her life, as the being obliged to sit listening civilly to Betsey's long story about the trouble she had about a stocking of Mrs.
On one occasion a neighbor who had run in for a "back-door" call was horrified to see a mouse run across Aunt Betsey's kitchen floor. "Why on earth don't you set a trap, Betsey?" she asked. "Well," replied Aunt Betsey. "I did have a trap set. But land, it was such a fuss! Those mice kept getting into it!" An Italian, having applied for citizenship, was being examined in the naturalization court.
Fortunately, Aunt Betsey's heart covered a broader sphere, and the moment the stage was gone she closed the door to shut out the dust, dropped the green curtains, and drawing from the spare-room a large, stuffed chair, bade 'Lena "see if she couldn't set up a minit."
"You came in the steerage?" and in her surprise Miss Betsey arose from her chair and walked once or twice across the floor, while Bessie looked at her wistfully, wondering if she, too, were ashamed like Neil. But shame had no part in Miss Betsey's feelings, which were stirred by a far different emotion. Resuming her seat after a moment, she said: "And you have come here to work to earn money?
"I'll see you through, if you say so. And here come Ben and Cousin Betsey; let us wait and speak to them." "Clifton," said his sister, earnestly, "Ben is Cousin Betsey's best hand this summer. It won't do to beguile him from his work, dear. You must not try it." "Nonsense, Elizabeth. It is rather soon to come down on a fellow like that, before I have even spoken to him.
And, leaning on Aunt Betsey's knee, she patiently discussed the wardrobe question from hose to head-gear. "Don't you think you could be contented any way, Christie, ef I make the work lighter, and leave you more time for your books and things?" asked the old lady, loth to lose the one youthful element in her quiet life. "No, ma'am, for I can't find what I want here," was the decided answer.
"Swears even in her monogram! I knew she would," was Miss Betsey's comment, as she broke the seal and began to read, first muttering to herself, "She writes well enough." The letter was as follows: "STONELEIGH, BANGOR, June 3d. "Umph!
They have enough to do as it is poor fellows they hardly get a night's rest. Miss Betsey's home has already given 'em a lot o' trouble." His humor had relieved its pressure in the deep, good-natured chuckle of the Yankee, as he strode up an' down the floor with both hands in his trousers pockets. "Look at that ol' duffer," he went on, as he pointed at the stern features of grandpa Smead.
He ain' Betsey's, nohow. He's Rindy's Lije, en' he's de mos' out'n out pesterer sence Mose wuz born." "Rindy!" exclaimed Eugenia in surprise, lightly touching the small black body with her foot. "Why, I didn't know Rindy was married. She's working at the house now." Delphy seized the child and held him at arm's length while she applied a sounding box. "Go 'way f'om yer, honey," she said.
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