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This adoption meant a good deal to Ann; for besides a legal home, and a mother, it secured to her a right in a comfortable property in the future. Mrs. Polly Wales was considered very well off. She was a smart business-woman, and knew how to take care of her property too. She still hired Phineas Adams to carry on the blacksmith's business, and kept her farm-work running just as her husband had.
Mine are so shabby beside them. I'm about the tag-end of our set, anyhow, in matters of dress. I think, Susie, you might give me a hundred or two dollars." "To waste in ribbons and bonnets?" asked business-woman Susan. "Why, Susie, how you do talk! A body would think you had never worn a ribbon, and that you'd gone bareheaded all the days of your life.
You cannot imagine what a wonderful business-woman the world has lost in me. Not only have I made both ends meet I, who used to dread my Christmas bills but I have so much to the good in solid coin of the realm that I could fill a dozen pairs of stockings. And I keep my accounts think of that, Richard!
"I am ready to answer your inquiries," said Susan, like the business-woman she was. After the questions usual in such circumstances, by which Mr. Falconer satisfied himself that the house would probably answer his purpose, it became Susan's turn to satisfy herself that he was such a tenant as she desired for her model house.
She was a good business-woman, and the farm continued to be the best in the district. She kept two hired men and a servant girl, and the sixteen-year-old of her oldest sister lived with her.
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