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"Colonel Darrah, then," was the suggestion. "Dicky Darrah!" laughed Mrs. Crook, in merry disdain. "Dicky Darrah never dares oppose Evvy let alone his wife. Kate Darrah says it just serves Hal Willett right. It's no fault of hers that he's daft about Evvy, who's simply bent on giving him a lesson he richly deserves. When the Archers come she'll drop it and him."
ME?" The pronoun signified all she might not say: it meant wealth, youth, beauty, and an unbounded capacity for pleasure. "Evvy, you're not going to MARRY that horrid man?" "Of course not, goosey. But that doesn't mean that I'm never going to marry at all, does it?" Laura supposed not with a tremendous sniff. "Well, then, what IS all the fuss about?" It was not so easy to say.
"M.P.! I never want to hear a date or add up a column of figures again." "Laura!" "It's the solemn truth. I'm fed up with all those blessed things." "Fancy not having a single wish!" "Wish? ... oh, I've tons of wishes. First I want to be with Evvy again. And then, I want to see things yes, that most of all. Hundreds and thousands of things.
Darrah?" asked a fair friend at a venture. "Talked with Kate Darrah! Of course I've talked with her! and told her just what people are saying and thinking, but Kate Darrah was just such a flirt when she was a girl. Kate Darrah many a time pulled the wool over her mother's eyes, and now hers is being pulled the same way. Evvy leads her mother by the nose."
"Look at Muriel and Evvy, the money they make! Evvy going East for the firm every year, and Muriel getting her little twenty-five a week. And then look at Rita, with four children to slave for " "Ah, well, Rita's husband doesn't work steadily, and she hates housework she admits it!" Julia protested swiftly. "Rita could do a good deal, if she would."
Sometimes, Evvy, do you know, they liked to talk to quite little kids of seven and eight better than me." "Perhaps you talked too much yourself and about yourself?" "I don't think I did. And if you don't talk something, they yawn and go away." "You've got to let them do the lion's share, child. Just you sit still, and listen, and pretend you like it even though you're bored to extinction."
"And they never need to pretend anything, I suppose? No, I think they're horrid. You don't like them either, Evvy, do you? ... any more than I do?" Evelyn laughed. "Say what you think they are," persisted Laura and waggled the other's arm, to make her speak. "Mostly fools," said Evelyn, and laughed again laughed in all the conscious power of lovely eighteen.
Evvy you couldn't marry off if she was Cleopatra on the Nile, and poor Julia could hang smallpox flags all over her, and every man in the place'd want her jest the same! He wants her back, you see if he doesn't!" "I don't know that he does," said Emeline, knitting needles flashing slowly in her crippled fingers. "Maybe that's the trouble." "What'd he come on for, then?" demanded Mrs. Torney.
You'll be there just in time to greet George at dinner." Miss Emelene fell to stroking the cat, again curled like a sardelle in her lap. "Kitti-kitti-kitti , does muvver's ittsie Hanna want to go on visit to Tousin George in fine new ittie house? To fine Tousin Georgie what give ittsie Hanna big saucer milk evvy day? Big fine George what like ladies and lady kitties!"
"Now, me," said Teddy, who had learned a bit of poetry, and was so eager to say it that he had been bobbing up and down during the reading, and could no longer be restrained. "I'm afraid he will forget it if he waits; and I have had a deal of trouble teaching him," said his mother. "Little words of kindness, Pokin evvy day, Make a home a hebbin, And hep us on a way."
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