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Updated: May 24, 2025
"We'll go home through the Holler," said Phineas, after she had retied her veil and they were ready to start. "It's the long way round, ye know. I ain't goin' ter give ye no snippy little two-mile run, Dianthy, like Colonel Smith did," he finished gleefully. "No, of course not," murmured Diantha, smothering a sigh as the automobile started with a jerk.
Annabel was enjoying the crisis of the game and found it impossible to spare from her own absorbing interests a thought for such a minor consideration as Diantha's moods. Diantha anticipated the time when she was to call for her finished frock by more than an hour. "I know you're not ready yet," she apologized, as Persis looked at the clock.
"I cannot see why Diantha thinks so much of gingham. It shrinks, anyway." Poor little Amelia did undoubtedly suffer on that last day, when she sat among the others gaily clad, and looked down at her own common little skirts.
And the ranch pays, Diantha! It really pays, and will carry us all. How long will it take you to get out of this?" "Get out of what?" she faltered. "Why, the whole abominable business you're so deep in here. Thank God, there's no shadow of need for it any more!" The girl's face went white, but he could not see it. She would not believe him.
But I cover that by letting the rooms, you see." Mrs. Bell considered the orders of this sort. "So far it averages about $25.00 a week; that's doing well." "It will be less in summer much less," Diantha suggested. "Suppose you call it an average of $15.00." "Call it $10.00," said her mother ruthlessly. "At that it covers your deficit and $110 over."
She's young and she's strong. The doctor says she's got everything in her favor." Annabel's answer was a vague uncomprehending stare. Then she began to understand. Mrs. West supposed her consumed with anxiety for her daughter's safety, whereas the possibility that Diantha might die had hardly occurred to her.
The speed, the accuracy, the economy; the pleasant, quiet, assured manner of these skilled employees was a very different thing from the old slipshod methods of the ordinary general servant. So the work slowly prospered, while Diantha began to put in execution the new plan she had been forced into. While it matured, Mrs. Thaddler matured hers.
Diantha wuz one bird, the Reunion another, and the third bird I had in my mind's eye wuz the big outdoor meeting of the suffragists that wuz to be held in the city where Diantha lived, only a little ways from Lorinda's.
I've got a good home, a good mother, good sisters, and you!" And he took advantage of a high hedge and an empty lot on either side of them. Diantha returned his kiss affectionately enough, but seemed preoccupied, and walked in silence till he asked her what she was thinking about. "About you, of course," she answered, brightly. "There are things I want to say; and yet I ought not to."
She recognized the gallant figure of the young man considerably before she knew his graceful companion. Her husband's eyes were quicker. His paper dropped from his hand, and his emotions found vent in an explosive and needlessly profane monosyllable. The two culprits came up the walk, Thad with a fine color, Diantha extraordinarily self-possessed.
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