emville

Updated: June 3, 2025

"I know it." "Why not telephone to Belle, dear, and have them all come into Emville if you like." "Oh, Jerry of course! I never thought of it." She flew to the telephone on the wall. "The operator says she can't get them they're so stupid!" she presently announced. Jerry took the instrument away from her and the little lady contentedly began her dressing.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

"Sure, Mis' Tress'dy Say, listen! I can match that insertion I spilled ink on in Emville. Isn't that the limit? I can fix it so it'll never show in the world!" "I wouldn't stand that girl for one minute," said Mrs. Porter to her husband; but this was some weeks later when the Porters were in a comfortable Pullman, rushing toward New York.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

They stopped for a paper on their way to the opera on Thursday night; and on their return, finding no later edition procurable, telephoned one of the newspapers to ask whether there was anything in the reports that the rivers were rising up round Emville.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

Tressady's maid," Belle would say mincingly at the telephone, "and she does not allow her servants to make engagements for her." "My friends want me to enter my name for a prize for the most popular girl in the Emville bazaar, Mrs. Tressady; but I thought I would ask your permission first." But there was a sort of breezy familiarity about her very difficult to check.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

And the Home Boys' Quartette from Emville was quite new, and various solo singers and a "lady elocutionist" from San Francisco were heard for the first time. The latter, who was on the program merely for a "Recitation Selected," was so successful with "Pauline Pavlovna," and "Seein' Things at Night" that it was nearly ten o'clock before the Governor was introduced.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne

Tressady asked her not to deliver the mail with the announcement: "Three from New York, an ad from Emville, and one with a five-cent stamp on it;" she asked her not to shout out from the drive, "White skirt show?" She said Belle must not ask, "What's he doing?" when discovering Mr.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

And she'd come for thirty and would be perfectly contented, because she lives right near here that house just before you come to Emville which says Chickens and Carpentering Done Here don't you know? She has a widowed sister who would come and stay with her at night when we're away." Mrs. Tressady summed it up slowly. "Why not try her then, dear? By the way, what's her name?"

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

But a heavy mail came down the trail that evening, brought by the obliging doctor from Emville, who had been summoned to dress the wounds of one of the line-men who had got too close to the murderous "sixty thousand" and had been badly burned by "the juice."

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

"Go back and read those Situations Wanted over again, Jerry," she commanded with a decisive snip of the elastic she was cunningly inserting into more new rompers for Timothy. Jerry Tressady obediently sat up in his steamer chair and flattened a copy of the Emville Mail upon his knee. The problem under discussion this morning was that of getting a nurse for Timothy Tressady, aged two years.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby