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She opened her mouth, and her half-strangled shriek, the partially masticated cap-strings all but choking her, aroused Ruth and Helen to palpitating fright. "Oh! What is it?" demanded Helen, bounding out of bed. "Ghosts! Oh! Waw!" gurgled Jennie, and sank back into her friend's arms. Helen was literally as well as mentally overcome.
I was quite old and very ignorant when I started away." "And you have come back quite young and very learned, I dare say." She laughed a little, and her clear and quiet laugh was as pleasant as her speech. Mrs. Belding came in with gliding footsteps and cap-strings gently fluttering. "Why, you are all in the dark! Arthur, will you please light that burner nearest you?"
"Now, Maggie, dear, last but not least, I'm sure," said Anna, with an encouraging glance, for SHE had discovered the secret of this friend, and loved her more than ever for it. Maggie blushed and hesitated, as she put down the delicate muslin cap-strings she was hemming with such care.
It was a unique little wedding which took place next day in Christ Church, when a beautiful, dreamy looking youth, with intellectual brow and classic profile and a beautiful, dreamy-looking maid, half his age, plighted their troth. The only attendant was Mother Clemm in her habitual plain black dress and widow's cap, with floating cap-strings, sheer and snowy white.
Garman was not particularly well disposed towards her new guest, because she had not been originally consulted as to her visit; and even the good-natured Miss Cordsen frightened Madeleine at first, with her tall, spare figure and well-starched cap-strings. The sewing-maid was a pale, weakly creature, with large wondering eyes which wore a deprecatory expression.
But her mind such are the limitations of even clergymen's wives was now absorbed by her own misfortune. Her very cap-strings seemed to hang limp with depression, as she followed Sarah dejectedly into the kitchen, and gave what attention she could to, those second-best arrangements so depressing to the idealist temper. Poor soul! All the charm and glitter of her little social adventure was gone.
Ellis at the head of the table with a grandchild on each side of her, and her cap-strings pinned upon the side next to baby.
A few caresses followed. Then catching sight of Emily's brooch, in which was a portrait of her child, little Nancy put the wide tulle cap-strings aside, and looked at it earnestly. "I know who that is," she said, after bestowing a kiss on the baby's face. "Do you, my sweet? who is it, then?" "It's Freddy; he's gone to the happy land. It's full of little boys and girls.
He would have enjoyed sitting beside her and listening to her rhapsodies, but was obliged to hurry off to other patients, while Whitey seated herself beside the couch, and began hemming strips of muslin to be made into those starched cap-strings which were tied so jauntily beneath her chin. "Oh, Whitey," cried Sylvia, "I feel better already! It all looks so bright, and cheerful, and alive!
At last the sound came, that quick light bowling of the gig-wheels, and in spite of the wind, which was blowing the clouds about, and was not likely to respect Mrs. Tulliver's curls and cap-strings, she came outside the door, and even held her hand on Maggie's offending head, forgetting all the griefs of the morning. "There he is, my sweet lad!
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