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Caukins beyond measure. "I know all about your 'shortlies, Mr. Caukins; they're as long as the rector's sermon this very Whit-sunday the one day in the whole year when the children can't keep still any more than cows in fly time. Did you get their peppermints last night?" "'Gad, my dear, I forgot them!
Caukins," he said when he came out, "and told her how things stand; that I'd try to get Poggi, and that I sha'n't be at home to-night. She says tell Aileen to tell Mrs. Champney she will esteem it a great favor if she will let her come up to-night; she has one of her nervous headaches and doesn't want to be alone with the children and 'Lias. You could take her up, couldn't you?"
I dare not think it would unsettle my reason; but she has friends; she has you, the Colonel, Tave, Elvira, Caukins; they will not see her want, and there's the house; it's in her name." He rose, shook himself together, drew a long breath. "Now let us go to work; the sooner it's over the better for all concerned. I suppose the clothes I had on are worth nothing, but I'd like to look them over."
Maggie had been married three months; and already McCann had quarrelled with the foreman, and, in a huff, despite his wife's tears and prayers, sought of his own accord work in another and far distant quarry. "Maggie told me she'd never leave off teasing Jim to bring her back," said the fifth eldest Caukins. "Oh, look!" he cried as they rumbled over the bridge; "there's Mrs.
He felt at the present time, moreover, that he was inimical to his mother and her interests. And Milton Caukins was his friend and hers, past, present, and future; of this he was sure.
I didn't stay with Ellen, but went up the road a piece, for my head was aching too, and I thought a little air would do me good and I believe I got frightened seeing the lights I heard the sheep too it's dreadful to think what it means." Mrs. Caukins turned and looked at her sharply; the light from the kitchen shone out on the porch.
The payment of this amount, by express stipulation, was to be made at the end of each year until Romanzo should come into his majority. By this arrangement, Mrs. Champney assured to herself the interest on the aforesaid thirty dollars, and congratulated herself on the fact that such increment might be credited to Milton Caukins as a minus quantity.
She felt she charmed him; she knew that he timed his coming and going that he might encounter her in the house or about the grounds, whenever and wherever he could sometimes alone in her boat on the long arm of the lake, that makes up to the west and is known as "lily-pad reach"; and afterwards, during the autumn, in the quarry woods above The Gore where with her satellites, Dulcie and Doosie Caukins, she went to pick checkerberries.
Upon her arrival in Flamsted, the child's adaptability to changed circumstances and new environment was furthered by the play of this imagination that fed itself on what others, who lack it, might call the commonplace of life: the house at Champ-au-Haut became her lordly palace; the estate a park; she herself a princess guarded only too well by an aged duenna; Octavius Buzzby and Romanzo Caukins she looked upon as life-servitors.
Caukins' nerves were correspondingly shaken. To use her own words, she "was all of a tremble" by the time she was dressed for church. On such occasions she was apt to speak her mind, preferably to the Colonel; but lacking his presence, to her family severally and collectively, to 'Lias, the hired man, or aloud to herself when busy about her work.
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