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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Of course I do, and the red ears that that Chickering girl was always finding! I think she picked them out on purpose, so that Tom Endover would kiss her. It was just like those Chickerings!" There was a gentle venom in Lucy Eastman's tones that made Mary Leonard laugh till the tears came into her eyes.
Eastman had been so long an invalid that Charlotte could hardly remember the time when it had not been the first object of her father, and later of herself, to spare her mother every care and excitement. To-day was one of Mrs. Eastman's better days, and Charlotte found her dressed and sitting by the window when she went in with the tray.
Mary Leonard's dimples came and went, and delicate waves of color flowed and ebbed in Lucy Eastman's soft cheeks. "I'm too old always to remember that there's no telling a United States senator anything," retorted Miss Pinsett, with a keen glance from her dimmed but penetrating eyes.
Rose early, went to Bulletin; but got no work. Came home; had breakfast. Went to Alta in evening, but no work. Went to Germania Lodge and then to Stickney's. "March 2. Went to Eastman's about 11 o'clock and was put to work. "March 3. At work. "March 4. At work. Got $5 in evening." The strength of the storm had now passed.
Parlin to go to her. Aunt Louisa said it was fortunate that the children could stay at their aunt Eastman's. She did not know that Mrs. Parlin left them there very reluctantly, having her own private fears that her youngest daughter might fall into mischief. Dotty kissed her mother good by, and promised to be perfect; but Mrs.
She had a high temper herself; but anger did not rankle in her heart for days and days, as it did in Johnny's. She was not eager, like him, for revenge. The Parlins were now making ready to go into their new hired house. They were all longing for a place they could call "home." During the few days, while they yet remained at Mrs. Eastman's, very few events occurred which are worth recording.
"I think I shall have to go in," she said to Mrs. Botz, and started for the office. Miss Eastman's determination was firmly fixed. Dr. Redfield must understand once for all that hers was the exclusive guardianship over David, and with that unwavering idea in her mind she looked into the room.
Ferd Eastman's wife had succumbed, some weeks before, to a second paralytic stroke, and Mary Lou wept unaffectedly at the thought of poor Ferd's grief. She said she couldn't help hoping that some sweet and lovely girl, "Ferd knows so many!" said Lou, sighing, would fill the empty place. Susan, with an unfavorable recollection of Ferd's fussy, important manner and red face, said nothing.
After getting breakfast, took the wringing machine which I had been using as a sample back to Faulkner's; then went to Eastman's and saw to bill; loafed around until about 2 P. M. Concluded that the best thing I could do would be to go home and write a little. Came home and wrote for the sake of practice an essay on the 'Use of Time, which occupied me until Annie prepared dinner.
She looked up at her auntie in surprise, and at that moment there entered into her small mind a doubt of Mrs. Eastman's truthfulness. It was a very faint doubt, which she did not express even to herself. It was almost incredible that a grown-up lady should tell the "thing which is not," or even color the truth by so much as the shadow of a shade.
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