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Updated: May 17, 2025
"What!" several of them exclaimed as they turned from their sewing and looked at the child. Granny Hogendobler and David Eby's mother, however, smiled. "What's on your face?" asked one woman sternly. Phœbe hung her head, abashed.
Sometimes I wonder if Aunt Maria could possibly be speaking wisely when she says it is all a waste of money to run off to the city and study music. But what is there on the farm to attract me? I don't want to marry yet" the remembrance of Phares Eby's pleading came to her "and if I do marry some time, it won't be Phares. No, never Phares!
The fact that the figure quoted was below cost was nothing to him. A cutthroat war between two rival canneries might result in still lower quotations which would give him a greater profit. "Certainly not," he answered. "The figure quoted me was from the Golden Rule Cannery." Gregory felt his face growing hot under the influence of Mr. Eby's exasperating smile.
I have been in the sun so much to-day that my head aches." "Would you care to see it?" he asked Phœbe in visible hesitation. She answered eagerly, her passionate love of birds mastering her embarrassment. "I'd love to, Phares! I am anxious to see whether it's a tanager or a cardinal. I have never seen a cardinal." South of David Eby's cornfield stretched a strip of woodland.
Several tiny beginners stood near the desk, a few older scholars were bravely offering their services to fetch water from Eby's "whenever it's all or you want some fresh," or else stay and clap the erasers clean. When the second tug at the bell-rope gave the final call for the opening of school there was an air of gladness in the room.
Teachers and friends had congratulated her, but it was David Eby's hearty, "You did all right, Phœbe," that gave her the keenest joy. "Did you walk in?" she asked him as she gathered her roses, diploma and scarf, preparatory to departure. "Yes." "Then you can drive out with us," her father offered. "Yes, of course," she seconded the suggestion. "We have room in the carriage."
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