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Hetty, perceiving his impatience without very clearly comprehending its cause, however, seconded his efforts in a way that soon rendered their timely return no longer a matter of doubt.
Hetty contrived to pull out several drawers and played with ribbons and trinkets. At last she opened a case in which was her foster-mother's watch, and as this ticking bit of gold was like a living companion, Hetty pounced upon it at once.
"I never knew you were such a needlewoman, Hetty. It has been nothing but stitch-stitch for these two hours and the same yesterday, and the day before. See, the kettle's boiling. Lay down your sewing, that's a dear creature; make me a dish of tea; and while you're doing it, let me see your eyes and hear your voice."
A bare-headed man on the seat beside the driver, waved his hand to them, and two women in the tonneau bowed gravely. Both Hetty and Booth flushed uncomfortably, and hesitated in their progress up the forest road. The man was Leslie Wrandall. His mother and sister were in the back seat of the touring car. "Why why, it was Leslie," cried Booth, looking over his shoulder at the rapidly receding car.
"She bid me come to see you, and to try and persuade the savages to take more elephants to let you off, but I've brought the Bible with me that will do more than all the elephants in father's chest!" "And your father, good little Hetty and Hurry; did they know of your arr'nd?" "Not they.
"There are three," said Fanny. "There's Betty, who is about my age; and then there are the twins, Sylvia and Hetty." "Then, of course, you do know them, dear?" "Yes, I know them. I went to stay with them in Scotland for a week during last holidays. My cousin their aunt, Miss Vivian was very ill, however, and we had to keep things rather quiet.
The old deacon pushed his spectacles high upon his forehead, and, throwing his head back, looked at Hetty a moment, scrutinizingly, in silence. Then, he said, half to himself, half to her, "You're your grandfather all over, Hetty. Now let me know what I can help you about. You can always come to me, as long as I'm alive, Hetty. You know that."
The nieces were greatly pleased with Uncle John's arrangement, which relieved them of the newspaper and also furnished Thursday and Hetty, of whom they had grown really fond, with a means of gaining a livelihood. Millville accepted the new arrangement with little adverse comment, the villagers being quite satisfied with a weekly paper, which would cost them far less than the daily had done.
In a dogged way, because they must live, Jim went on earning a little money as surveyor and draughtsman. He often talked of going away into some new faraway place where they could have, as he said, in the same words Hetty had used, "a fair chance;" but Sally would not go.
My God, Sara, what a devil you " She did not complete the sentence, but sank back in her chair and stared with wide, horror-struck eyes at her rigid daughter-in-law. Her husband, his hand shaking as if with palsy, pointed a finger at Hetty. "And so YOU are the one we have been hunting for all these months, Miss Castleton! You are the one we want!
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