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Yes, he did come kind of sudden." "What's his name?" "What difference does that make? I don't know's his name makes any odds about gettin' his breakfast for him." Georgianna was hurt. Her easy-going employer had never used this tone before when addressing her. "Oh!" she sniffed. "Is THAT the way you feel? All right! I can mind my own business, thank you.
Georgianna had some doubts, but she kept them to herself. Among the things in Bos'n's "box" was a long envelope, sealed with wax and with a lawyer's name printed in one corner. The captain opened it, at Emily's suggestion, and was astonished to find that the inclosure was a will, dated some years back, in which Mrs.
She had met the great man at the Hotel Rafael a few days before, at tea- time, and he had asked Susan most affectionately of her aunt, Mrs. Lancaster, and recalled, with a little emotion, the dances of two generations before, when he was a small boy, and the lovely Georgianna Ralston was a beauty and a belle. Susan could have kissed the magic bit of pasteboard!
He spent hours with Georgianna and the Board of Strategy, preparing the list of guests. His cunning in ascertaining from the unsuspecting child who, among her schoolmates, she would like to invite, was deep and guileful. "Now, Bos'n," he would say, "suppose you was goin' to clear out and leave this town for a spell, who "
Then she wiped off the teary blue eyes and smilingly said, "Listen, Mary Jane, and I'll tell you a secret." "A secret about a doll?" asked Mary Jane eagerly. "A secret about a doll," replied mother. "Marie Georgianna has a twin." "Not a really truly twin?" demanded Mary Jane and she sat up straight and opened her eyes wide. "A really, truly, for surely enough twin?"
There was a knock at the dining-room door, and Georgianna, opening it, was petrified to behold, standing upon the step, no less a personage than the Honorable Heman Atkins, supposed by most of us to be then somewhere in that wide stretch of territory vaguely termed "the South." "Good evening, all," said the illustrious one, removing his silk hat and stepping into the room. "What a charming scene!
Loretta's deep, wise, mysterious smile seemed to imply that she, at nineteen, could afford to assume the maternal attitude toward her easily confused and disturbed parent. "No vocation for mine!" said Georgianna, hardily, "I'd always be getting my habit mixed up, and coming into chapel without my veil on!"
"How does it happen that you See here, Georgianna, did you tell Ph er Miss Dawes what I told you to tell her when I went away?" "Why, yes, I told her. I hated to, dreadful, but I done it. She was awful set back at fust, but I guess she asked Mr. Tidditt Where you goin', Mr. Tidditt?" The town clerk, his face red, was on his way to the door. "Asked Ase?" repeated the captain. "Ase, come here!
Are we going tonight or some other night?" "I'll have to give this badge back." "Why will you? Didn't you find it? Isn't it yours?" "Of course not. It belongs to the girl who lost it." "Oh, I see. That's why I should call you Georgianna Washington," with a note of scorn in her voice.
"No," replied the captain wearily. "I ain't sick. I didn't sleep very well last night, that's all." Georgianna looked sharply at him. His face was haggard and his eyes had dark circles under them. "Humph!" she grunted. "No, I guess you didn't. Looks to me as if you'd been up all night." Then she added an anxious query: "'Tain't Bos'n she ain't sick, I hope?" "No. She's all right.
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