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But I assure you, Aunt Euphemia, it does not please me to hear you do so." "You are a very obstinate girl!" "That attribute of my character I fancy I inherit from daddy-professor's side of the family," the girl returned bluntly. "I shall be shamed to death! I must accept the Perritons' invitation. I already have accepted it. They will think you a very queer girl, to say the least."
Dubbin, after clinging wildly to Angela, and being somewhat roughly flung aside by Denzil, collapsed altogether, and rolled upon the ground. "Lady Euphemia," cried Mrs. Townshend, a young lady who had been sitting next the obnoxious citizen, "be pleased to look after your drunken husband. If you take the low-bred sot into company, you should at least charge yourself with the care of his manners."
Aunt Euphemia will no doubt bestow a sound rating on me, for, alas!" with a doleful glance downward "see the draggled condition of my habit." "Never mind your habit, Moppet," said Betty. "Thank Heaven instead that you are not lying stiff and cold at the bottom of the pond. You can never know the agony I suffered when I saw you fall; I should have plunged in after you in another second."
The next day was clear again, and we rambled in the woods until the sun was nearly down, and so were late about supper. We were just taking our seats at the table when we heard a footstep on the front porch. Instantly the same thought came into each of our minds. "I do believe," said Euphemia, "that's somebody who has mistaken this for a tavern.
Freddie, Alice, and Euphemia Caldwell, reading from left to right, were consigned in the care of the conductor to Silas Caldwell, Painsville, Ohio. Alice had her arms around Freddie and Euphemia, and her pretty head was bent first to one and then to the other. Mr. Holiday seated himself gently behind the trio, and listened for some time.
I examined the board, and found it was a sign, a hanging sign, and on it was painted in letters that were yet quite plain: "FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' HOTEL." I called to Euphemia and told her that I had found the old tavern sign. She came to look at it, and I pulled it out. "Soldiers and sailors!" she exclaimed; "that's funny."
"But, my poor Pomona," said Euphemia, "you don't suppose that little child could be of any use to an opera singer; at least, not for years and years." "Oh, yes, ma'am," replied Pomona; "she was none too little. Sopranners is like mocking-birds; they've got to be took young." No arguments could shake Pomona's belief in this theory.
"Well, then," said Euphemia, "let's put it up." I agreed instantly to this proposition, and we went to look for a ladder. We found one in the wagon-house, and carried it out to the sign-post in the front of the house. It was raining, gently, during these performances, but we had on our old clothes, and were so much interested in our work that we did not care for a little rain.
You know, my clear, you and I might have visited him. It would have been delightful to have consoled his sad hours! We might have planned his escape." "In irons!" ejaculated Mary, raising her tearless eyes to heaven. Euphemia colored at the agonized manner in which these words were reiterated, and rather confusedly replied, "Not absolutely in irons.
But I, supported by Euphemia, remained so firm that we anchored a short distance from Pelican Island. None of the others had any desire to go ashore, and so I, with the gun and Euphemia, took the boat and rowed to the island.
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