Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 13, 2025
He leaned over and whispered in her ear; "So was mine!" Araminta's tell-tale face betrayed her relief. He knew the worst now and he was similarly branded. His mother, too, had been an outcast, beyond Aunt Hitty's pale. There was comfort in the thought, though Araminta had been taught not to rejoice at another's misfortune.
The curtains were so frail that they fell apart in Miss Hitty's hands. "You can make her some new ones, Minty," she said. "She can get some muslin at Mis' Allen's, and you can sew on curtains for a while instead of quilts. It'll be a change." None too carefully, Miss Mehitable tore up the rag carpet and threw it out of the window, sneezing violently.
Charley's mind is on other things, I can tell you, and it it's no wonder he sometimes forgets to wipe his feet." "Other things! Getting off to sea, I suppose you mean?" remarked Aunt Prue, grimly. "He's pulled the wool over your eyes and Hitty's finely, I declare. As for me, if he's goin' on to behave as he has done for a spell back, the sooner he quits the better.
The child met his advances with an ominous scream, and Hitty hurried into the house to give him to the servant's charge, while she returned to the sitting-room, where the old man had seated himself in the rocking-chair, and was taking a mental inventory of the goods and chattels with a momentary keenness in his look that no way reassured Hitty's apprehensive heart. "So, Abner a'n't to home?"
It was exasperating to think of the public spirit at Egypt, and contrast it with the state of things at Pleasant River. In Egypt, they had sold the old hearse-house for a sausage-shop, and now they were having "hearse sociables" every month to raise money for a new one. All these details flew through Aunt Hitty's mind in fascinating procession. There shouldn't be "a hitch" anywhere.
A spark of light awoke in Hitty's eye; she planned to get away, to steal the boat from its hidden cove in the bushes and push off down the friendly current of the river, anywhere away from him! anywhere! though it should be to wreck on the great ocean, but still away from him!
"They say they're goin' up to their aunt Hitty's to stay two days. They're dressed in their best, clean to the skin, for I looked; 'n' it's their night gownds they've got in the bundle. They say little Mote has gone to Union to stop all night with his uncle Abijah, 'n' that leaves Rube all alone, for the smith girl that does his chores is home sick with the hives.
"I suppose he was hungry enough to eat anything," Nancy thought; "the lunch was humiliating enough, but this surpasses anything I dreamed of." She had given up trying to estimate the calories that each man was likely to average in partaking of Hitty's menu.
"But Nancy is going to marry considerable money in addition to what she's inherited." Nancy finding it impossible to spend an hour of her time idly and with no appointments before noon that day, was engaged in darning a basket full of slum socks that she had brought home from the tenements to occupy Hitty's leisure moments.
He's very good to love me, I am so old and homely." "Very good!" exclaimed Mrs. Perkins, in great wrath, "good! to marry Judge Hyde's daughter, and fifty thousand dollars," Mrs. Perkins bit off. She would not put such thoughts into Hitty's head, since her marriage was inevitable.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking