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Dainty were here, I'd ask them." "Can't ye write a note, an' leave it at the cottage where yer Aunt Charlotte'll find it as soon's she gits home? Ye kin tell her I took yer ter yer aunt what's sick, an' ef ye tell her 'bout yer Uncle Steve, she won't worry." Nancy hesitated.
"But what's it all for?" "Why, you know, Rookie. You've broken down." Raven stared at her. Then he laughed. "Well," he said, "let 'em come. Charlotte'll give 'em some dinner and they can look at the mountain and go back on the six to-night." "That's precisely what they won't do," said Nan, her lips tightening. "At least your sister. She's going to stay." "The deuce she is," said Raven. "What for?"
She remembered that Arabella had said that her father always did as Aunt Matilda directed, and truly the small woman appeared able to marshal an army of men, if she chose. "Perhaps Arabella will go over to the public school," said Dorothy; "she doesn't have to enter Aunt Charlotte's private class." "Oh, but she will, I just know she will," Nancy replied, "and Aunt Charlotte'll have to let her.
He knew Susan's letters off by heart, and did not need his spectacles, nor a good light to read them by. Charlotte listened with emphatic nods, and many exclamations of astonishment. "That's very pretty of Susan," she remarked, "saying as Aunt Charlotte'll do her sewing, and see to her manners.
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