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Updated: June 1, 2025
"I know there was a fire, and I was in the house; but it is all confused. How was it?" "The Hall was burned down, you know poor old house! and you rushed in to save Eeny, and " "Oh, I remember, I remember. A beam or something fell, and after that all is oblivion. I have had a fever, I suppose?"
The haggard change in the pale face, the nervous contraction of the mouth, the sunken eyes, with those dark circles, told their eloquent tale. "Poor child!" Doctor Frank said, with a look of unspeakable pity and tenderness; "it was cruel!" Eeny ran away to change her dress.
Evans laughed till she cried and declared that her headache had been completely scared out of her. She stood the figure upright and called the others to witness the lifelike attitude. "With her hand stretched out like that, she looks just as though she was counting 'Eeny, meeny, miny, mo," she said. "That's just what she does!" exclaimed Katherine.
Yes, she looked all that, and Grace wondered what manner of man had won that high-beating heart. There was a witchery in her glance, in her radiant smile, in every graceful movement, that fascinated even her father's sedate housekeeper, and that seemed to have completely captivated little Eeny.
"Don't ask me; please don't ask me!" cried the little seamstress, piteously. "I have seen him before; but, oh, please don't say anything about it!" She was in such a violent tremor her voice was so agitated, that Eeny good-naturedly said no more.
After supper, with much ceremony and speechifying, Eeny-Meeny was raised up on a flat rock for a platform, with her back to a slender pine, where she stood facing the Council Rock, with one foot forward to preserve her balance and her right arm extended toward the councilors, looking for all the world as if she were separating the sheep from the goats, and counting "Eeny, meeny, miny, mo!"
I was so agitated that I dared not go down stairs when luncheon-hour came. Eeny came up immediately after, and asked me if I was ill. I pleaded a headache as an excuse for remaining in my room all day, for I dreaded meeting Kate. Those deep, clear eyes of hers seem to have a way of reading one's very thoughts, and seeing through all falsehoods. Eeny's next question was for her father.
"Told me to mention to Miss Grace Danton that a friend wished to see her. Mysterious, is it not?" "Who can it be?" said Grace, thoughtfully. "What does this mysterious gentleman look like, Eeny?" "Very tall," said Eeny, "and very stately, with brown hair, and beard and mustache a splendid mustache, Grace! and beautiful, bright brown eyes, something like yours.
Doctor Frank was the reverse of obdurate, and rallied with astonishing rapidity. His sister, Eeny, and Kate were the most devoted, the most attentive of nurses; but the hours that Captain Danton's eldest daughter sat by his bedside flew like so many minutes.
His walk commanded a view of the great frozen fish-pond where a lively scene was going on. Kate, Rose, and Eeny, strapped in skates, were floating round and round, attended by the Captain and Lieutenant Stanford. Rose was the best skater on the pond, and looked charming in her tucked-up dress, crimson petticoat, dainty boots, and coquettish hat and plume.
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