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Updated: September 24, 2025
But if you represent me, Josiah, you will have to carry out my plans; I writ to Diantha Smith Trimble that if I went to the city I'd take care of Aunt Susan a night or two, and rest her a spell; you know Diantha is a widder and too poor to hire a nurse.
The six sandwiches were five cents, the cup of coffee five, and the little "drop cakes," sweet and spicy, were two for five. Every man spent fifteen cents, some of them more; and many took away small cakes in paper bags, if there were any left. "I don't see how you can do it, and make a profit," urged Mr. Eltwood, making a pastorial call. "They are so good you know!" Diantha smiled cheerfully.
"Is that all?" asked Diantha. "It's all I've found so far," gaily retorted Mrs. Weatherstone. "Don't you see, child, that you can't afford to wait? You have reasons for hastening, you know. I don't doubt you could, in a series of years, work up this business all stark alone. I have every confidence in those qualities I have mentioned! But what's the use?
And rather to Persis' surprise, the frail and fretful little creature, who looked askance even at the kindly Mary, fell under the spell of the girlish beauty and always had a smile for Diantha. "Goodness, child, you do look grown up," Persis exclaimed abruptly one afternoon, as she glanced at the pair snuggled in the depths of the armchair, Diantha had flung her hat aside.
Thad knew it too, and a hollow groan escaped him. "By the way, Thad, I'm going to arrange with Mr. Sinclair to let you call on Diantha twice a week, and if you should happen to feel like seeing her between times, she's pretty likely to be at my house along in the afternoon. If you should drop in 'most any day about four o'clock, you'd probably find her.
Diantha looked from one to the other, and at the frightened child before them who was now close to the terrible door. "O please! please! go away!" she cried in desperation. "O what shall I do! What shall I do!" "You can't do anything," he answered cheerfully. "And I'm coming in anyhow. You'd better keep still about this for your own sake. Stand from under!"
To Phineas it seemed that a cold hand clutched his heart. "Dianthy, you wouldn't really ride in one!" he faltered. Until that moment Diantha had not been sure that she would, but the quaver in Phineas's voice decided her. "Wouldn't I? You jest wait an' see!" And Phineas did wait and he did see.
"Any time you feel like coming back you will be welcome, Dear. "Yours, Ross." "Any time she felt like coming back? Diantha slipped down in a little heap by the bed, her face on the letter her arms spread wide. The letter grew wetter and wetter, and her shoulders shook from time to time.
Diantha watched him out of sight, turned and marched up the path to her own door, her lips set tight, her well-shaped head as straightly held as his. "It's a shame, a cruel, burning shame!" she told herself rebelliously. "A man of his ability. Why, he could do anything, in his own work! And he loved it so! "To keep a grocery store!!!!! "And nothing to show for all that splendid effort!"
Her own family was much impressed by the thousand dollars, and found the occupation of housekeeper a long way more tolerable than that of house-maid, a distinction which made Diantha smile rather bitterly. Even her father wrote to her once, suggesting that if she chose to invest her salary according to his advice he could double it for her in a year, maybe treble it, in Belgian hares.
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