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Updated: June 28, 2025
With one of the quick changes of mood which seemed so strange to Celestina she turned suddenly. 'I'll go home, she said. 'Come on, Celestina, before I get naughty again. But it isn't all for being good. It's a great deal that I want to come out with you again, and perhaps I mightn't if I was late to-day. 'No.
But although the great engine throbbed and purred, it was some time before it left the gate and flashed its way down the high road toward Belleport. After it had gone and Bob was once more in the house, Celestina had a score of questions with which to greet him. How remarkable it was that the owner of the missing jewelry should be some one he knew! The Galbraiths must be well-to-do.
So that it was with a sigh of deep content that Biddy sat down to breakfast, knowing that something still more delightful and wonderful was in store. Celestina arrived before breakfast was quite over, and Rough ran out and brought her into the dining-room, where she had to eat a roll and strawberry jam to refresh her after her early walk.
Musing before his fire the poet sat, not dreaming thoughts no mortal ever dreamed before, but turning the bacon and apples and stirring in a few herbs, for no other particular reason than that he had them and thought he might as well use them. "Celestina is taking longer than usual," he mused. "Perhaps, though, Monsieur Tortier intends to surprise me with an unusually fine bottle.
'Go on, said Biddy. 'Tell me some more. I never heard about it. 'It's what they call the arctic regions, said Celestina. 'The old sailor at the lighthouse has been there. Once he was there in a ship that got fastened into the ice, and they thought they'd never get out again, and they'd scarcely nothing to eat. Oh, it was dreadful; but I did so like to hear about it.
It was Celestina who at length broke in on the conversation. "I guess we must be thinkin' of goin', Delight, don't you? We have a long ride back, you know." "Delight!" echoed Madam Lee, repeating the word with surprise. "A queer name, ain't it?" Celestina put in. "So old-fashioned an' uncommon!
Since the invention of the metal reed, however, which, under various modifications and combinations, supplies the sole utterance of the harmonicon, celestina, seraphina, colophon, accordian, concertina, &c. &c. and which does away with the necessity for pipes, the street hand-organ has assumed a different and infinitely worse character.
"Mornin', Tiny," called the visitor, poking his head across the threshold. "Willie anywheres about?" Celestina, who was washing the breakfast dishes, glanced up at the lank figure with a start. "Law, Zenas Henry, what a turn you gave me!" she exclaimed. "I never heard a footfall. Yes, Willie's outside somewheres.
Indeed, when Celestina had first come to the weathered cottage on the bluff to keep house for the lonely little bachelor and had discovered that cottage to be one gigantic spider's web, her initial impression was that strings played far too important a part in the household. What a labyrinthine entanglement the dwelling was!
But he bore himself with the easy assurance of a man who could adapt himself to any surroundings; even to Calliope's shabby boudoir! "My dear," remarked the disconcerted bard, "get a chair for Mr. Mauville. Or I beg your pardon would you mind sitting on the bed? Won't you have some wine? Celestina, bring another glass."
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