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Having breakfasted before starting I wheel on without halting, crossing the Araxes Eiver at the junction of the Passin Su, on a very ancient stone bridge known as the Tchebankerpi, or the bridge of pastures, said to be over a thousand years old. Nearing Dele Baba Pass, a notorious place for robbers, I pass through a village of sedentary Koords.
Frances went away early in the morning and did not get back until after six. Mrs. Whitney, a Southern woman by birth, was one of the easy-going kind and very fond of novels. Mr. Whitney brought them home by the dozen. The house seemed somehow to run itself, with the aid of Dele, as she was commonly called. Dele proved a powerful rival to Miss Lily Ludlow.
But what would they have said to the Columbian nights and electric lights? "I don't feel as if I had seen it half," said Jim. He was not grudging his quarter. "If we had come about one o'clock." "We'll have to piece it on this end," and Walter laughed. "We must get our money's worth." "We might stay over," suggested Dele mirthfully. "Just the thing," returned Jim, "and all for the same money."
Aunt Clem has soft down all over her cheeks, and such curly white hair. She's awful old and wrinkled and deaf; but Dele can make her hear splendid. Aunt Patty isn't so old. Her real name is Patricia. And Aunt Clem's is Clementine." The children were not alone in regret. Ben was almost broken-hearted to lose Mr. Theodore. The boy and the man had been such good friends.
Ives folk were evidently very numerous and very varied; but these entries are not all of almsgiving. Thus, in the same year as above, we have the following: "Easter Quarter. Impmis pd. for two dele boordes to make a newe seate to the vicar, IIId." Also: "Item paid to the younge felow which is our clarke, IIs."
It did not take very much to make people comfortable then. They owned their house and rented some rooms. Hanny had to go in and see Josie and Tudie Dean's Christmas and bring them in to inspect hers. Then Dele and Nora Whitney were her next callers. Nora had a silk dress and a gold ring with a prettily set turquoise. "The marriage was at ten," began Dele, "and it was just nothing at all.
Underhill," began Dele, "I expect you'll almost want to kill me, but I never thought about your being worried, for no one ever worries about me. I suppose it is because I never do get into any danger. And you must not scold any one, for I was the eldest, except Cousin Walter, and it was my place to think, but I didn't one bit.
"I have twenty-eight cents, and I wouldn't want to go sponging on a girl anyhow! Oh, mother, do let us go? Hanny, come quick! Oh, do you want to go to the Museum?" "To the Museum?" Hanny drew a breath of remembered delight and thrilling anticipation. Dele and Jim talked together. They were so earnest, so full of entreaty. Jim might have gone in welcome, but Hanny
Lily Ludlow said, out of her bitterest envy, "I shouldn't have thought you would let a girl take you out, Jim Underhill!" "She didn't take me! I bought my own ticket. And there was her cousin " "Well if you like that style of people and red hair and Dele Whitney has no more figure than a post! I wouldn't be such a fat chunk for anything! And her clothes are just wild."
Then I pray you tell me a dream that befell to me the last night. Say on, said he. Then he began so much to tell him of the great bird in the forest, and after told him of his birds, one white, another black, and of the rotten tree, and of the white flowers. Sir, I shall tell you a part now, and the other dele to-morrow.
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