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"Perhaps I can weed the garden." "That is right," said Betti, delighted. "You see, Tina will not take me in the carriage; she says I am too big. Will you take me every day in the carriage to the meadow for ever so many hours?" "Yes, indeed, I will do that gladly," promised Sami, "and you shall have all the flowers.
Get back, O thou accursed Crocodile Sui. Thou shalt not come nigh me, for I have life through the words of power that are in me. If I utter thy name to the Great God he will make thee to come before the two divine messengers Betti and Herkemmaāt. Heaven ruleth its seasons, and the spell hath power over what it mastereth, and my mouth ruleth the spell that is inside it.
Then the gentleman offered his hand to the charcoal-man, who shook it vigorously, and then, with a sudden push, he thrust his son into the arms of Carlo Nobis. "Do me the favor to place them next each other," said the gentleman to the master. The master put Betti on Nobis's bench. When they were seated, the father of Nobis bowed and went away.
When Sami came to an end, the lady turned to her husband and said: "It is the dear Lord who has led him here. We cannot send him away!" The children all shouted together for joy. "Can we go to the birds now, Papa? Right away?" repeated Betti with irrepressible eagerness. "By and by, by and by," said her father, soothingly.
With pleasant recollections of earlier meetings with this gifted artist, the writer sought him out, and found him amiably willing to talk about the modern quartet and its ideals, ideals which he personally has done so much to realize. "You ask me how the modern quartet differs from its predecessors?" said Mr. Betti. "It differs in many ways.
When the writer first called on him in New York with a note of introductio from his friend and admirer Adolfo Betti, and later at Scarsdale where, in company with his friend Thibaud, he was dividing his time between music and tennis, Ysaye made him entirely at home, and willingly talked of his art and its ideals.
Before any question, reproach or accusation could be heard in regard to the unlawful expedition, Betti had run straight to her Papa, and in his delight that she was safely there again, he had taken her in his arms, and with the greatest eagerness she said: "He will take me every day in the carriage, Papa, the whole day long, if I like, and bring all the flowers to me, because I must not go in the high grass.
No one could manage these and keep them in order but Sami, and he does it so well and so successfully that Edward often exclaims: "Without Sami everything we have would go to ruin, animals and people, the animals for want of proper care and the people from anger over it." But Betti still remains Sami's greatest friend.
"No, no," interrupted the little one warmly. "People are never from two places, only from one. I am from Berlin, in Germany, you see. Then Papa bought an estate and now we are living on Lake Geneva. What is your name?" Sami told her. "And my name is Betti. Why did you come into the courtyard when Tina wanted to send you out?"
Then he asked his son, "Did you say that?" His son, who was standing in the middle of the school, with his head hanging, in front of little Betti, made no reply. Then his father grasped him by one arm and pushed him forward, facing Betti, so that they nearly touched, and said to him, "Beg his pardon."
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