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Updated: June 15, 2025
It seemed to Kate that the play was never going to begin, so long had she been kept waiting. She did not consult Hender, but possessed her soul in patience till a thin young man came up from under the stage, pushing his glasses higher on his beak-like nose. He took his place on the high stool; he squared his shoulders; looked around; waved his stick.
Hender had finished sewing up the bodice, had tacked on the facings, and Kate had cut out the skirt and basted it together. The time had come for exchanging a few words, and lifting her head from her work, she asked her assistant if she could remain that evening and do a little overtime.
I'll size 'em up the best I ken, tho' mebbe it'll hender me in my work some; but time was made for slaves, as the molasses said when they told it to hurry up in winter time." Two hours later, Miss Vilda looked from the kitchen window and saw Jabez Slocum coming across the road from the garden.
The day had passed; it was gone like a hundred days before it wearily, perhaps, yet leaving in the mind an impression of something done, of duties honestly accomplished. 'Oh, ma'am! Hender broke in, 'you can't think how amusing it was last night! I never enjoyed myself so much in my life. The place was crammed! Such a house! And Miss Leslie got three encores and a call after each act.
Laneway strolled down the lane before breakfast was ready, and came back with a little bunch of pink anemones in his hand. Marilla thought that he meant to give them to her, but he laid them beside her grandmother's plate. "You mustn't put those in your desk," he said with a smile, and Abby Hender blushed like a girl.
Miss Hender fell into her gloomiest mood, and drew the most miserable pictures of the future, with six to feed and clothe, rent to pay, an invalid man to keep, and only the children's earnings to do it all on.
He stopped and looked at them once more from the boys' entry, and turned again to look back from the very doorstep. "Good-by, sir, good-by," piped two or three of the young voices; but most of the children only stared, and neither spoke nor moved. "We will omit the class in Fourth Reader this afternoon. The class in grammar may recite," said Miss Hender in her most contained and official manner.
At last she picked up what she thought was a nice tempting-looking one. Surely that would do for one, she thought. The baker interposed. "Miss Hender don't like that shape," he said shortly; "she thinks 'em too crusty. Most folks prefer 'em," he added meaningly. Bella laid down the loaf and took up another. "Miss Hender don't " the man began again, but stopped.
Hayes, our acting manager, has been drunk for the last three days; he can't even make up the returns. No, no; you must come to-morrow night. Come with Hender; she's one of the dressers. I'll make that all right; you can tell her so from me. Will you promise to come? 'I should like it so much; but what excuse can I give for being out till half-past ten at night?
Like enough, one reason for his makin it was fur tu hender 'em from gittin any more of the miserable intoxicating stuff. One thing is sartin, if he was God, he wouldn't dispute hisself, and the Bible expressly says, 'Look not upon the wine fur in the end it biteth like a sarpent and stingeth like an adder.
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