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Updated: June 23, 2025
I had spent all my first quarter's allowance on books and a late wedding-present to Hephzibah, and I foolishly could not bring myself to ask Augustus for more. So I sat in the hotel hall after lunch and watched the people passing by. What had seemed a great sum of money to me in my days of poverty now appeared a very meagre allowance, as I had begun to realize what things cost.
"I ain't going to ask his leave," said Hephzibah. "He wouldn't give it to me, besides. It's fun, I tell you." "It is wrong," said Daisy. "I don't think there's any fun in doing what's wrong." "It is fun, though, I tell you," said Hephzibah. "It's real sport. The nuts come down like rain; and we get whole baskets full. And then, when you crack 'em, I tell you, they are sweet'"
All these people came to call as soon as we arrived, and parsons and old maids by the dozen, but grandmamma's exquisite politeness upsets them. I suppose they feel that she considers they are not made of the same flesh and blood as she is, so we never get intimate with anybody whatever places we are in. Hephzibah has a lover.
"Stand back, please, everybody," he commanded. He was obeyed implicitly. But his order came too late. They had seen the blood upon his hand. Miss Ganthorn began to faint and was led away. Other girls looked as though they might follow suit. Only Hephzibah Malling stood her ground. Her face was blanched, but her mouth was tightly clenched. She uttered no sound.
"I don't know nothing about women's fixtures, except what'll keep me and Hephzibah above the savages. I don't suppose I could dress a doll so's it would sell." "This is tailoring work," said Daisy. "It is a boy's suit and there will be more to do if you like to have it." "Where is it? at the gate, did you say? Hephzibah, go and fetch it in. Who's got it?"
When I got back, my ball-dress had arrived. Hephzibah had unpacked it, and it was lying on my bed such billows of pure white! and it fitted! Well, it gave me pleasure, with all the uglies looming in the future, just to try it on. The Marquis stayed with us. He could not desert his old friend, he said, in her frail health, when she needed some one to cheer her.
This is the relation of Hephzibah to Ishi, and is that worship in Spirit and in truth which needs neither the temple in Jerusalem nor yet in Samaria for its acceptance, for the whole world is the temple of the Spirit and you yourself its sanctuary.
It was not until they were delivered, an hour later, that I began to wonder what I should do with them. Our trunks were likely to be crowded and I could not carry all of the nineteen volumes in my pockets. Hephzibah, who had been shopping on her own hook, did not return until nearly seven. She returned weary and almost empty-handed. "But didn't you buy ANYTHING?" I asked.
On the days when Monsieur de Rochermont comes grandmamma wears the lavender silk for dinner and the best Alençon cap, and Hephzibah stays so long dressing her that I often have to help the servant to lay the table for dinner. The Marquis never arrives until the afternoon, and leaves within a couple of days.
I told him an outline of things and how grandmamma and I had lived at the cottage, and of all her wise sayings, and about the Marquis and Roy and Hephzibah, and the simple things of my long-ago past. It seemed as if I was speaking of some other person, so changed has all my outlook on life and things become since I went to Paris with Augustus.
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