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"His sentiments are good and generous ones," she thought, "and I shall not say one word against them, but Ida Mayberry shall not marry that exceedingly slippery young man, and the good Mr. Tippengray shall not be caught by Calthea Rose."
Give me a chance, and I'll win her into the right way, and I'll do it easily and naturally, without making hard blood or hurting anybody. Then old Tip and Calthea will come together again, and everything will be jolly. Now don't you go and blast the happiness of all of us, and get that poor girl turned off like a drunken cook. And as for taking good care of the baby, just look at her now."
But the sorrel horse did not move; he had two reasons for refusing to obey his mistress. In the first place, on general principles he disliked to back, and was fully conscious that Miss Calthea could not make him do it, and in the second place, he wanted a drink, and did not intend to move until he got it.
Calthea isn't as young as she was, but she's wonderful lively on her feet yit, and there ain't many that could get ahead of her walkin' or bargainin'." "And she keeps the store?" asked Mrs. Cristie. "Yes," said the other; "she keeps it, and in more ways than one. You see, when Dan'el died and that was two years ago last March he left everything to Calthea, and the store with the rest.
If he'd asked them to have a grave ready for him it would have been much more considerate." Mr. Petter now rose to his feet; his manner was very dignified. "Excuse me, Miss Calthea," he said, "but I must go and look after my men in the cornfield." Miss Calthea Rose sat up very straight in her chair. "If there's anything you want to do, Mrs. Petter, I beg you won't let me keep you."
Petter had the most to say," answered Lodloe. "I'm glad to hear they're alive," interpolated the other. "And Mrs. Cristie, who knew you when her husband was alive." "Dead, is he?" said Beam. "Very sorry to hear that. A mighty pretty woman is Mrs. Cristie." "Miss Calthea Rose was not present," continued Lodloe, "but her opinions were quoted very freely by the others, and sometimes combated."
"I think I remember Miss Calthea Rose," said Mrs. Cristie. "She was tall, wasn't she, with a very fair complexion?" "Yes," said the elderly woman; "and it's just as fair now as it was then. Some of it's owin' to sun-bonnet, and some of it to cold cream.
Cristie recognized the voice of her child, but saw Ida running, and so, relieved of present anxiety, remained where her companion had left her. Walter Lodloe, hearing Mrs. Petter's voice and the running, sprang from his seat; and seeing that it would be impossible to detain him now, and preferring to leave rather than to be left, Miss Calthea hurried away to see what was the matter.
"Now, Calthea," said Mrs. Petter, "don't work yourself into such a terrible stew. You know Stephen doesn't like to have Lanigan pitched into; I'm sorry for even what I said. But that about his grave was enough to rouse a saint." Miss Calthea was on the point of retorting that that was something which Stephen Petter was not, by any means, but she restrained herself.
Beam immediately proceeded to take off his black cravat and to replace it by the blue one with white spots. Towards the end of the afternoon of the day after Mr. Lanigan Beam had been installed as an outside guest of the Squirrel Inn, Miss Calthea Rose sat by the window at the back of her shop.
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