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Updated: October 9, 2026
There was nobody, of course, to give the two older girls any very valuable gifts; but there was a pretty locket and chain for Ruth which she had seen in the jewelry-store window and expressed a fondness for, while the desire of Agnes' eyes was satisfied when she found a certain bracelet in the toe of her stocking.
"I've been to see the games a lot with father Saturday afternoons," began Laura, when her mother interposed: "Indeed? That is why you are so eager always to spend your forenoons with your father on Saturday?" "Oh, Mother! I really do help father in the jewelry-store don't I, Dad?" "Couldn't get along without you, daughter," said Mr. Belding, stoutly.
Out there, he kept a closer watch on the front door than Laura, with her financial trouble, could. Suddenly he darted down the long room to welcome a group of young people who pushed open the jewelry-store door. They burst in with a hail of merry voices and a clatter of tongues that drowned every other sound in the store for a minute, although there were but four of them. "Easy! Easy!" begged Mr.
I beguiled the time by observing the women. I noticed, for instance, that Auntie Yetta, whose fingers were a veritable jewelry-store, now and again made a pretense of smoothing her grayish hair for the purpose of exhibiting her flaming rings. Another elderly woman, whose fingers were as heavily laden, kept them prominently interlaced across her breast.