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Hitty knew a fish market where the clams were imported direct from Cape Cod by the nephew of a man who used to go to school with her husband's brother, and he warranted every clam she bought of him. They were served in soup plates and the drawn butter in demi-tasses, but Hitty would have it no other way.
One day, Abner Dimock was gone, and Hitty stole down to the garden-door with her little child, now just trying to walk, that he might have a little play on the green turf, and she cool her hot eyes and lips in the air.
If water would have brung her to she'd be settin' up by now. And don't get scared. Minty ain't hurt." With this comforting assurance, Miss Hitty sped down-stairs, but her mind was far from at rest. At the gate she stopped, suddenly confronted by the fact that she could not bring Anthony Dexter to Evelina's house. "What'll I do!" moaned Miss Hitty. "What'll I do!
A chill of horror crept over Hitty at the thought, and then, what had not she to dread? Oh, for some loophole of escape, some way to fly, some refuge for her baby's innocent life! No, no, no! She was his wife; she had married him; she had vowed to love and honor and obey, vow of fearful import now, though uttered in all pureness and truth, as to a man who owned her whole heart!
"Them ain't no children to be wanderin' about the earth afoot 'n' alone, 'same 's Hitty went to the beach; nor they ain't any common truck ter be put inter 'sylums 'n' poor-farms. There's some young ones that's so everlastin' chuckle-headed 'n' hombly 'n' contrairy that they ain't hardly wuth savin'; but these ain't that kind.
"Hitty," he gasped. "I've got 'em all! An' I've got ter take the whole six medicines ter cure me!" Even Mehitable was stirred then. For one long minute she was silent, then she squared her shoulders, and placed her hands on her hips. "Jason Hartsorn," she began determinedly, "this thing has gone jest as fur as I'm goin' to stand it.
Hitty wore her hair in short gray curls, on each side of her rather severe-looking face, and now they bobbed up and down as, she nodded her head emphatically. "Of course they did," she answered, with conviction. "You see my grandfather fought in the Revolution, so I ought to know. But," with an entire change of conversation, "bravery isn't the only thing in the world for a little boy to think of.
Look here, did you ever feel badly about anything?" "Only only " stammered Araminta; "my mother, you know. She was was married." "Poor child," said Ralph, beginning to comprehend. "Have you been taught that it's wrong to be married?" "Why, yes," answered Araminta, confidently. "It's dreadful. Aunt Hitty isn't married, neither is the minister. It's very, very wrong.
Hurrying upstairs, she discovered that Araminta had fallen from the ladder and was in a white and helpless heap on the floor, while Miss Evelina chafed her hands and sprinkled her face with water. "For the land's sake!" cried Miss Hitty. "What possessed Minty to go and fall off the ladder! Help me pick her up, Evelina, and we'll lay her on the bed in the room we've just cleaned.
Well, I s'pose he'd be back by 'nother spring; but who'd we get ter shovel us out this winter, seein' as there ain't more 'n three men in the whole village? Aunt Hitty says twenty-year engagements 's goin' out o' fashion in the big cities, 'n' I'm glad if they be. They'd 'a' never come in, I told her, if there'd ever been an extry man in these parts, but there never was.
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