Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 12, 2025
She spoke half-absently, as though momentarily forgetful of the child's presence. "Who's Nason?" asked Phœbe. Granny started. "I-to-goodness, Phœbe, I forgot! You don't know him, never heard of him, I guess. He's our boy. We had a little girl, too, but she died." "Did the boy die too, Granny?" "No, ach no! You wouldn't understand. He's living in the city.
"It vonders me now if Granny's home," thought Phœbe as she opened the wooden gate and entered the yard. "Here I am," called Granny. "Back in the garden. I-to-goodness, Phœbe, did you come once! I just said yesterday to Aaron that I didn't see none of you folks for long, and here you come! You haven't seen the flowers for a while." "Oh!" Phœbe breathed an ecstatic little word of delight.
"Did I ever!" exclaimed the mother of Phares Eby. "I-to-goodness!" laughed Granny Hogendobler. "Vanity, vanity, all is vanity," quoted one of the other women. "Come here, Phœbe," said the mother of David Eby, and that woman, a thin, alert little person with tender, kindly eyes, drew the unhappy little girl to her.
Granny said it was the greatest day in their lives and paid up for all the unhappy days when Old Aaron was cross and said mean things about Nason. Nason had just a day to stay, but they made a day of it. Granny said, 'I-to-goodness, but we had a time!
Granny stoutly refuted all these charges gossip travels in circles in small towns and sooner or later reaches those most concerned "Aaron lazy! I-to-goodness no! Why, he's old and what for should he go out and work every day, I wonder. He helps me with the garden and so, and when I go out to help somebody for a day or two he gets his own meals and tends the chickens still.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking