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"A teacher!" cried Mrs. Cristie. "Yes," said Lodloe; "and you may be sure that I was as much surprised as you are. But Mrs. Waltham assured me that a great many women teachers found it necessary to make money during the summer, and were glad to do anything, just as college students wait at hotels.
"I did not know," said Lodloe, "that you required credentials of respectability, or I might have brought a lot of letters." "One from Matthew Vassar?" said Mrs. Cristie, unable to resist her opportunity. "Were you acquainted with Matthew Vassar?" interpolated Mrs. Petter with energetic interest. "He was a great and good man, and his friends ought to be good enough for anybody.
Cristie returned from Romney, Ida Mayberry was walking by the side of the baby-carriage, which Lanigan Beam was pushing towards the spot from which there was the best view of the western sky. Mrs. Cristie looked at them, and said to herself: "I don't altogether like that sort of thing, and I think it must be stopped." Calthea Rose appeared to have recovered her good humor.
And to go into business and to live here are what will suit me better than anything else, and that's not counting in Ida Mayberry at all. To live here with her would be better luck than the biggest rise in oats the world ever saw. Now you see where I stand. If Mrs. Cristie goes against me, she does a cruel thing to me, and to Ida Mayberry besides." "Why don't you tell her the facts?" said Lodloe.
Or if he's failed in business and has to live cheap; or if he is thinking of setting up a store where a person can get honest wash-goods; or if he has sickly children, and isn't particular about schools, I suppose he might as well come to Lethbury as not." "But he has none of those reasons for settling here," said Mrs. Cristie. "Well, then," remarked Mrs.
Cristie gave a great pull, and shouted, "Back!" and as the hind wheels began slowly to revolve, the astonished horse, involuntarily obeying the double impulse thus given him, backed a step or two. "Now! Again!" cried Ida, and the process was repeated, this time the horse backing himself out of the water.
She sent word by Debby, who met her at the front door, that she had had her dinner, and that she would wait for the family on the piazza. "Bonnet and parasol," said Mrs. Petter. "She has come to make a call, and it's on you, Mrs. Cristie. Don't eat too fast, Mr. Tippengray; she's good for the rest of the afternoon."
Sometimes he jumped in again, and sometimes he didn't, but all that was not my affair; I was bound to help him when I saw him facing the right way, and that is just the way I feel about young Beam. I do not approve of all his methods, but if he wants moral support I say he ought to have it." Mrs. Cristie looked at the pink, blue, and purple blossoms on the ground.
I think she is apt to talk very forcibly, and perhaps imprudently, and does not always make herself understood." This was said with an air of abstraction and want of interest which greatly irritated Miss Calthea. She had not even been thanked for what she had done. Mrs. Cristie had been very civil, and was evidently trying to be more so, but this was not enough for Miss Calthea.
The more she talked about it the more she got interested in it, and the matter resulted in her going to the agency with me. Mrs. Waltham is a heavy swell in educational circles, and as she selected this girl herself I said not a word about it, except to hurry up matters so that the girl and I could start on an early afternoon train." "Never in my life!" ejaculated Mrs. Cristie.
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