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Aunt Pen seldom saw the twain together, seldom spoke of Evan; and Debby held her peace, for, when she planned to make her innocent confessions, she found that what seemed much to her was nothing to another ear and scarcely worth the telling; so, unconscious as yet whither the green path led, she went on her way, leading two lives, one rich and earnest, hoarded deep within herself, the other frivolous and gay for all the world to criticize.
"Perhaps I shall be in time to save him." "No, don't trouble." "Don't be so cruel, Debby. You're as bad as Solomon, who pulls off flies' wings to see if they can fly without them." "He's dead now. Go on with 'Lady Ann's Rival; we've been wasting the whole afternoon talking. Take my advice, Esther, and don't stuff your head with ideas about young men. You're too young. Now, dear, I'm ready.
"Little girls shouldn't ask questions, but do as they are bid," was all Debby would answer.
Shall we begin Pa Field-Mouse's bungalow bright and early tomorrow?" Sir Spider, Squire Cricket, Mr. Hop Toad, Jack Rabbit, and Daddy Grasshopper nodded approvingly. "We will all help," they promised. Debby Field-Mouse looked sadly at the blackened ruins of her old home; then taking Mother Graymouse's arm, she led little Wee to Uncle Squeaky's home.
Inside the outer gold edge was woven a narrow strand of hair, and within this was imbedded a peculiar yellow stone. "Isn't it pretty!" cried Hester. She held it in her hands and examined it eagerly. It was the first interest she had evinced in anything which belonged to that time before she entered the Alden home. "I fancy it isn't gold," continued Debby Alden.
She thought also of Dutch Debby, with whom she had spent the previous evening; and of Raphael Leon, who had sent her, via the publishers, a letter which she could not trust herself to answer cruelly, and which she deemed it most prudent to leave unanswered. Uncertain of her powers of resistance, she scarcely ventured outside the house for fear of his stumbling across her.
Livingstone where strange articles of food were concerned, usually made the first experiment, and if he said that it was good, the rest followed suit. After a while Katy grew wiser. She ceased teasing Debby to try new things, and the Carr family went back to plain roast and boiled, much to the advantage of all concerned. But then another series of experiments began.
She made Debby a profound bow, pushing Amanda out of the way unceremoniously. "I thank you all for this very great honor," she began, clearing her throat in the most professional manner. She had once attended a woman's club with Miss Clyde in Boston. "But owing to my absence from the city the coming winter I " There was a roar of protest from the Club members, en masse.
"Two couldn't sleep here," she said. "Oh yes, they could," said Debby, thoughtfully bisecting the blanket with her hand. "And the bed's quite clean or I wouldn't venture to ask you. Maybe it's not so soft as you've been used to." Esther pondered; she was fatigued and she had undergone too many poignant emotions already to relish the hunt for a lodging.
The girl felt herself quivering with the desire to be off down the corridor and up the stairs to Number Sixty-two. What if Aunt Debby should really be there waiting for her? Her heart beat fast with the thought. Miss Burkham also felt the quivering of flesh under restraint. She delayed Hester yet longer while she made plain to her the unwritten by-laws of a lady's conduct.
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