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So Phronsie kept on her way rejoicing, while Polly still sat on the lowest stair, and drummed impatiently on the stair above her, waiting for her to get through. Jappy came through the hall and found them thus. "Halloa, Polly!" he said, stopping suddenly; "what's the matter?"
"I can bang all I want to, then," said Van, noways disturbed by the reflection, and pulling one of Prince's long ears, "you think you're so big, Jappy, just because you're thirteen." "He's only three ahead of me, Van," bristled Percy, who never could forgive Jappy for being his uncle, much less the still greater sin of having been born three years earlier than himself.
"The very nicest place in the whole world!" "Oh dear," broke in Van enviously; "Jappy's always said so. I wish we'd been there, too!" "We didn't want anybody but Jappy," said Joel not very politely. "Oh Joey, for shame!" cried Polly. "Jappy used to bake," cried little Davie; "an' we all made pies; an' then we sat round an' ate 'em, an' then told stories." "Oh what fun!" cried Percy. "Do tell us!"
"Isn't anybody going to be a cousin to me, too?" "Everybody but Jasper," said the old gentleman, laughing heartily at them. "You and I, my boy," he turned to his son, "are left out in the cold." At this a scream, loud and terrible to hear, struck upon them all, as Joel flung himself flat on the floor. "Isn't Jappy our cousin? I want Jappy!"
And I'll have Lizzie Bayne up here for a month, makin' me aprons and little Jappy wrappers, and so on." She paused over the cutlets and the chicken pie, which she had been helping with an amazing attention to personal preference. The young Costellos chafed at the delay, but their mother's fine eyes saw them not. "Kelley & Moffat ought to let me have materials at half price," she reflected aloud.
"Barry, of course!" she exclaimed. "I KNEW I knew you, but the 'Mr. Valentine' confused me." And facing him radiantly, she demanded, "Who am I?" Barry shook his head slowly, his puzzled, smiling eyes on hers. For a moment they faced each other; then his look cleared as hers had done, and their hands met as he said boyishly: "Well, I will be hanged! Jappy Frothingham!"
"Even Jappy's isn't better, I don't believe!" "I wish Jappy was here," said Polly with a small sigh. "Well, he isn't," said Ben; "come, we must go back into the kitchen, or all the children will be out here. Look your last, Polly; 'twon't do to come again till it's time to light up." "Mammy says she'd rather do the lighting up," said Polly.
"Mine is the best," said Van, just at this juncture; but it was said a little anxiously, as he saw how things were prospering with Percy; "for my flowers in the picture will always be there, and your old roots and things will die." "What will yours be, then, Jappy?" asked Polly very soberly. "The stand of flowers would have been just lovely! and you do fix them so nice," she added sorrowfully.
"Hush," said Jappy. "Why, Percy, I didn't know as you had thought of that," he said kindly. "Well, then, you do it, and I'll take something else. I don't care as long as Mrs. Pepper gets 'em." "I didn't exactly mean that," began Percy; "mine was roots and little flowers growing." "He means what he gets in the woods," said Polly, explaining; "don't you, Percy?" "Yes," said the boy.
"I mean to begin," said Van, ambitiously, sitting up straight and staring at the glowing coals. "I guess I will to-morrow," which announcement was received with a perfect shout Van's taste being anything rather than of a musical nature. "If you do," said Jappy, when the merriment had a little subsided, "I shall go out of the house at every lesson; there won't anyone stay in it, Van."
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