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"A gentleman giving most of his time to Greek cannot be expected to give much of his mind to the passage of modern times." "If he gives some of his time to the passage of a good dinner into cold victuals it would help his dyspepsia. But I suppose he will come when he is ready, and all I have to say is that I would like to see Calthea Rose if she could catch sight of them this minute." Mr.
There were people who said and among these Calthea Rose expressed herself rather better than the others that Mr. Petter's farm kept him, while he kept the Squirrel Inn. When it had become known that the Squirrel Inn was ready to receive guests, people came from here and there; not very many of them, but among them were the Rockmores of Germantown.
However, if the young child's nurse should become an early widow, and be thrown upon her own resources, she, for one, would not withhold a helping hand. But she earnestly insisted that not a word she said on this subject should ever be breathed into another ear. When Ida Mayberry heard what Calthea had said about her and Mr.
"The best thing he could do," she quietly remarked, "would be to teach the old hens good manners"; and then she walked away with her book. Miss Calthea sprang to her feet, and looked as if she was going to do something; but there was nothing to do, and she sat down again.
"I don't object in the least to telling you," said Lodloe; "it is fitter that you should know it than that I should know it. That was a quoted opinion of Miss Calthea Rose." "Good for you," said Lanigan; "you'd be death to the members of a scandal-monger society. You would break up the business utterly." "To this Mr.
"Now that's Calthea Rose's way of doin' business. She undertook to sell out them goods, and she's goin' to keep on till she does it. She is willin' to sell some of the worst-lookin' things at cost, but not a cent below that, for if she does, she loses money, and that isn't Calthea Rose.
But still, and here prudence stepped in front of kindliness, if that child's nurse remained in the neighborhood, it would be safer if Lanigan kept up his interest in her; and if she ultimately carried him off, that was his affair. Leaning forward, Miss Calthea took a match from a box on a shelf, and handed it to Lanigan.
Miss Calthea was busily sewing, but she was much more busily engaged in thinking. So earnestly was her mind set upon the latter occupation that she never raised her head to look out at the special varieties of hollyhocks, dahlias, and marigolds which had lately begun to show their beauties in the beds beneath her window, nor did she glance towards the door to see if any one was coming in.
A red blaze shot into her face, and without deigning to look in the direction of the creature who had just spoken, she said in the sharpest tones of contemptuous anger: "Greek to a child's nurse! I expect next he'll teach French to the pigs." The maid Ida lifted up her eyes from the book and fixed them on Miss Calthea.
Thus the hopes of Miss Calthea had been doubly darkened; the pariah with the brimstone blossoms had not only treacherously deserted Lanigan, but had made Mr. Tippengray treacherously desert her. She had been furiously angry; now she was low-spirited and cross.
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