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Mrs President Giddy-gaddy has the floor, said Demi, who liked this sort of fun better than the very mild sort of flirtation which was allowed at Plumfield, for the simple reason that it could not be entirely banished, and is a part of all education, co- or otherwise. 'I have only one thing to say, and it is this, began Nan soberly, though her eyes sparkled with a mixture of fun and earnestness.
Nan soon followed her example, in kindness at least; curbed her sharp tongue, and kept her scornful little nose from any demonstration of doubt or dislike, which was good of Madame Giddy-gaddy, for she firmly believed that Nat took the money.
Giddy-gaddy, as she transferred the thistledown from her pocket to her handkerchief, losing about half in the process. "I wouldn't; Aunt Jo says feather-beds aren't healthy. I never let my children sleep on any thing but a mattress," returned Mrs. Shakespeare Smith, decidedly. "I can't afford nine mattresses, and I like to make beds myself." "Won't Tommy charge for the feathers?"
"I shall give it to Ned," was her cruel reply; for Ned liked Mrs. Giddy-gaddy, and had turned her clothespins, boxes, and spools enough to set up housekeeping with.
Giddy-gaddy," and she liked it so well that Mrs. Jo one day said to the Professor, "Fritz, I see what we can do for that child. She wants something to live for even now, and will be one of the sharp, strong, discontented women if she does not have it.
You helped yourself, for his hands had no direction, and he told a long tale in which the deeding away of a farm to one of his family was mixed up with pride at the distances he still could cover daily. As much as six miles sometimes. He was no Lear, as the gift of the farm might suggest, but sealed of the tribe of the Wandering Jew a tremulous old giddy-gaddy.
"Nothing; I keep a 'spensary; that is a place where poor people are doctored free gratis for nothing," explained Nan, with an air. "Thank you, Doctor Giddy-gaddy. I'll always call you in when I come to grief;" and Emil departed, but looked back to say for one good turn deserves another "Your duds are blowing away, Doctor."
Giddy-gaddy came to take out her clothes, deep green stains appeared on every thing, for she had forgotten the green silk lining of a certain cape, and its color had soaked nicely into the pink and blue gowns, the little chemises, and even the best ruffled petticoat. "Oh me! what a mess!" sighed Nan. "Lay them on the grass to bleach," said Daisy, with an air of experience.
'Don't I! and how you steeped me in wormwood till I was a fine mahogany colour, and Aunt Jo wailed over my spoilt jacket, laughed Tom, a boy again in a minute. 'And how you set the house afire? 'And you ran off for your band-box? 'Do you ever say "Thunder-turtles" now? 'Do people ever call you "Giddy-gaddy"? 'Daisy does. Dear thing, I haven't seen her for a week.
The young ladies had gone into the garden, and while they waited till Franz looked them up, Jo and Laurie stood at the door talking together. "How does little Giddy-gaddy come on?" he asked, for Nan's pranks amused him very much, and he was never tired of teasing Jo about her. "Nicely; she is getting quite mannerly, and begins to see the error of her wild ways."
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