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It came out so strong when he sat up just now that it made me feel like crying. Don't you notice it, Clemantiny?" "Can't say that I do," replied that energetic person, who was flying about the kitchen with a speed that made Chester's head dizzy trying to follow her with his eyes. "All I can see is freckles and bones but if you're satisfied, I am. For law's sake, don't fluster me, Salome.
He knew that it would mean going back to Upton and Aunt Harriet and the old, hard life, but he would not sail under false colours any longer. Chester went into the kitchen one afternoon when he came home from school, with his lips set and his jaws even squarer than usual. Miss Salome was making some of her famous taffy, and Clemantiny was spinning yarn on the big wheel.
All I hope, Salome Whitney, is that the next time you adopt a boy and let him twine himself 'round a person's heart, you'll make sure first that you are going to stick to it. I don't like having my affections torn up by the roots." Clemantiny seized the saucepan and disappeared with it into the pantry amid a whirl of pungent smoke. Mount Hope Farm was a strangely dismal place that night.
His active feet were untiring and his wiry arms could pitch and stock with the best. When the day's work was ended, he brought in wood and water for Clemantiny, helped milk the cows, gathered the eggs, and made on his own responsibility a round of barns and outhouses to make sure that everything was snug and tight for the night.
"Clemantiny!" exclaimed Miss Salome. "You may well say 'Clemantiny. Such a coincidence! It doesn't make you and him any relation, of course the cousinship is on the mother's side. But it's there. Mary Morrow was born and brought up in Hopedale. She went to Upton when I did, and married Oliver Stephens there. Why, I knew his father as well as I know you." "This is wonderful," said Miss Salome.
"No, we haven't, Clemantiny. We want another hand, and I'll hire you, Chester that's your name, isn't it? I'll give you good wages, too." "Now, Salome!" protested Clemantiny. But Miss Salome only said, "I've made up my mind, Clemantiny."
There's only the spare room left. You'll hardly put him there, I suppose? Your philanthropy will hardly lead you as far as that." When Clemantiny employed big words and sarcasm at the same time, the effect was tremendous. But Miss Salome didn't wilt. "What makes you so prejudiced against him?" she asked curiously. "I'm not prejudiced against him. But that story about himself didn't ring true.
The men liked him, and he soon became a favourite with them. Even Clemantiny relented somewhat. To be sure, she continued very grim, and still threw her words at him as if they were so many missiles warranted to strike home. But Chester soon learned that Clemantiny's bark was worse than her bite. She was really very good to him and fed him lavishly.
"But if he wasn't treated well and was jawed at and not let go to school?" pleaded Chester. Clemantiny gave Miss Salome a look as of one who would say, You're bat-blind if you can't read between the lines of that; but Miss Salome was placidly unconscious. She was not really thinking of the subject at all, and did not guess that Chester meant anything more than generalities.
Beyond keeping it scrupulously clean, Miss Salome never allowed it to be disturbed. And now a somewhat ragged lad from nowhere was to be put into it! No wonder Clemantiny shook her head when Miss Salome went up to air it. Even Clemantiny had to admit that Chester was willing to work. He split wood until she called him to stop.
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