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Updated: June 8, 2025
I didn't list the piano in our assets, but I really think it's one of the best we have on the farm, because it helps to bring us together and keep us happy." "May I play the victrola a while, Aunt Bettie?" asked Ruth. "If you want to," said her aunt. "How much did you say the poultry brought us last year?" asked Edith suddenly, as Ruth began playing.
He's a host of steadiness in himself and the way he ignores all you women, who would run after him if he would let you, shows what he is. He has my full confidence," and as she delivered herself of this judgment of Doctor John, Mrs. Johnson drove in all the corks tight and began to pound spice. "He's not out of the widower-woods yet, Caroline," said Aunt Bettie with her most speculative smile.
Maybe I'll dress up to-day just to see how they look," he added, smiling back at her. "Why are we having such a large table for Christmas dinner, Aunt Bettie?" he asked a little later in the morning, as he passed through the dining room and saw the table extended to an unusual size. "I didn't know but some one might drop in for dinner on Christmas," said his aunt evasively.
"Well, does it look as bad as it sounds?" laughed her husband, as he took up the statement and glanced at it hurriedly. "What's it all about, Bettie, and why have you been worrying your head with figures to-day?" he said, placing the papers on the table, without seeming to comprehend their meaning.
Bill Yohe sprang toward Bettie, but Milton had touched her on the arm. "Not t'night, Bill," he grinned. Bill grinned in reply and made off toward another well-known belle, Ella Pratt, who accepted his escort.
He doesn't see a woman as anything but a patient at the end of a spoon, and mighty kind and gentle he does the dosing of them, too. Just the other day dearie me, Judy, what has boiled over now?" And in the excitement that ensued I escaped to the garden. Yes, Aunt Bettie is right about Doctor John; he doesn't see a woman, and there is no way to make him.
Miss Bettie thinks anything matrimonial is close to scandalous, and she is continually raising her eyebrows and making a half moon of her mouth at what she says is the forwardness and freeness of present-day young people. Miss Susanna always has a crowded house in August.
No one will ride now and they do not know what fine exercise they are missing. And I am sure that Bettie is glad to get her blood warm once during the twenty-four hours. Friends kindly tell me that some day I will be found frozen out on the plains, and that the frisky Bettie will kill me, and so on. I ride too fast to feel the cold, and Bettie I enjoy all but the airs she assumes inside the post.
It is our habit usually for me to hold Faye's horse when he dismounts to hunt, but that time he was some distance away, and had slipped his hand through the bridle rein and was leading Bettie that way. Both horses are perfectly broken to firearms, and do not in the least mind a gun. I have often seen Bettie prick up her ears and watch the smoke come from the barrel with the greatest interest.
I always take every chance to rub in Tom's and my relationship on Aunt Bettie, so she won't notice our flirtation. "I'd put John Moore at the head of the table if I were you, Molly Carter, because he's about the only man you've invited that has got any sense left since you and that Chester girl took to visiting Hillsboro.
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