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You know what parents are. Father gets caught short in steel rails one morning. When he reaches home, what does he do? He eases his mind by snapping at little Willie. Mrs Van First-Family forgets to invite mother to her freak-dinner. What happens? Mother takes it out of William. They love him, maybe, but they are too used to him. They do not realize all he is to them.
I'd even be willing to have him keep the grocery store even if it did mean that he wasn't quite as first-family as Judge Luttrell and the Byrds. Oh, I do love my father I do I do! It does seem a pity that a person can't put an Idol on a pedestal and keep it here without having it come down and bother around the house. The idea of being introduced to Mr.
He grumbled a little as they journeyed back to South Harniss. "She may be all right, that Wyeth woman," he said, "but she's too everlastin' sober-sided to suit me. Take that hat you and she bought; why, 'twas as plain, and hadn't no more fuss and feathers than a minister's wife's bonnet. You ain't an old maid; no, nor a Boston first-family widow, neither.
Lois was 'first-family' but poor when she married Peter, but he's been giving her an allowance of $20,000 a year for several years not for running the house, but for her personal use. Clothes, charities, hobbies, like the Little Theater she brought Nita here to organize " "I wouldn't say she spends a great deal of it on dress," Dundee interrupted with a grin.
If your niece were placed in her care she would have a real home and meet only the sort of people you would wish her to meet." He might have added that Mrs. Wyeth, being under many obligations, pecuniary and otherwise, to her wealthy Chicago relative, would need only a hint from him to give Mary-'Gusta the care and attention of a parent, a very particular, Boston first-family parent.
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