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Updated: May 10, 2025
She says to ask you if it's yours because it ain't ours, nor anybody else's, an' it's got to be somebody's apern, and once I thought I saw a gray 'n' white one hanging through your window I mean on a nail, but, mercy gracious, what was it doing in bed with me an' Stefana!" Even Evangeline's breath had limitations. She stopped as headlong as she had begun.
I read Cousin John Richard's and Evangeline's, but I put hern on the mantletry piece and thought I wouldn't read it till about a hour after dinner, mistrustin' that it would agitate and work me up, so that my food wouldn't set good. Dorothy's marriage to Robert Strong had took place a week before, but not a word had I heard from Miss Meechim, and I didn't know what effect the blow had had on her.
He set up indignant wails, and Miss Theodosia's soul wailed in unison. "All our dear good time spoiled! We're not pretending any more; you're Evangeline's darlin' dear. I'll put you on the bed and give you your bottle." So abruptly had the beautiful game come to an end. Miss Theodosia went away to prepare the bottle.
Miss Theodosia settled a little in her chair and waited. In time Evangeline's time she would know. Elly Precious held out his rigid little mourning arm and softly whimpered. "Give him to me, Stefana; he wants to come to me," Miss Theodosia said, extending welcoming hands. Very gently she relieved the tension of the small arm. "We're in mournin' for you," Evangeline explained sadly.
"Evangeline, we'll make Stefana's cake together; we'll take turns 'stirrin''! We'll do it over here and keep it a beautiful secret." The child was standing up now certainly, her wiry little body a-tilt with excitement, a-quiver with it. Evangeline's eyes shone. "Oh, I knew you would! I knew you would! You're such a nangel! If you was a kind of folks that liked to be kissed "
She was noticing something else besides the little old-lady back. Evangeline's braids toed in! Tight and flaxen, they stood out in rounded curves, converging suddenly to the bit of faded ribbon that tied them together. There was something suspicious looking about that ribbon "Stefana starched it!" smiled Miss Theodosia's thought. The small figure whirled face about.
"Elly Precious!" rose Evangeline's voice of indignation. "He's the unspeckledest baby you ever saw! I guess I guess you never saw Elly Precious!" Stefana appeared suddenly in the doorway, a blanched and frightened Stefana. But she was determinedly calm. "He's fell asleep, and Carruthers is watching him through the door. I told him not to go any nearer'n that.
Well, remember it is whispered; and now don't go and tell! It is that there is a swain who is Evangeline's special devoted; and the quick blush which rises most becomingly on that damsel's cheek speaks for itself. We have seen for ourselves how "Many a youth, as he knelt in the church and opened his missal, fixed his eyes upon her,"
It confirmed his statement by giving a resounding crack and sending a shining stream partly on to the carpet and partly on to Aunt Evangeline's black silk knee. A storm of reproaches burst out. "First that horrible insect," almost wept Aunt Evangeline, "and then this messy stuff all over me. It's a good thing I don't live here. One day a year is enough.... My nerves!..."
After Evangeline's departure, Miss Theodosia set down her coffee cup and gave herself up to laughter. The room rang with the pleasant sound of it. "Will you l-listen to yourself, Theodosia Baxter!" she cried at length, out of breath. "You actually sound happy!" In the afternoon, a bevy of Miss Theodosia's old friends called on her as she sat on her front porch.
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