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Susan herself seemed transfixed, watching Mary from the doorway. Jims writhed in those big, firm, capable hands of Mary oh yes, she is capable all right and choked and wheezed and choked and wheezed and I felt that he was being tortured to death and then all at once, after what seemed to me an hour, though it really wasn't long, he coughed up the membrane that was killing him.
Over in the Garden of Spices was friendship and laughter and romance galore. The whole world was transformed for Jims. From that time Jims lived a shamelessly double life. Whenever he was shut in the blue room he escaped to the Garden of Spices and he was shut in very often, for, Mr. Burroughs being away, he got into a good deal of what Aunt Augusta called mischief.
The Very Handsome Cat came through the rose garden paths on his beautiful paws, ambled daintily around the rockery, and sat down in a shady spot under a pine tree, right where Jims could see him, through a gap in the little poplars. He looked straight up at Jims and winked. At least, Jims always believed and declared he did. And that wink said, or seemed to say, plainly: "Be a sport.
Even the most thoughtful and watchful of parents do not see everything that goes on under their very noses. Rilla made a third attempt to give the long-suffering Jims his dinner, but all she could think of was the question Would Ken come to see her before he went away? She had not heard from him for a long while. Had he forgotten her completely? If he did not come she would know that he had.
There was no other train that night, since the nine o'clock special ran only on Saturdays. Would it be possible for them to reach Hannah Brewster's house, two miles away, before the storm broke? Rilla thought she could do it alone easily enough, but with Jims it was another matter. Were his little legs good for it? "We've got to try it," said Rilla desperately.
"Isn't that the same thing as thanking Him that some other woman's son has to go in Shirley's place?" asked the doctor, pausing on the threshold. "No, it is not, doctor dear," said Susan defiantly, as she picked up Jims, who was opening his big dark eyes and stretching up his dimpled paws. "Do not you put words in my mouth that I would never dream of uttering.
"Jims, would you like Miss Avery to come here and live with us always and be your real aunt?" "Great snakes!" said Jims, transformed in a second. "Is there any chance of that?" "There is a certainty, thanks to you," said Uncle Walter. "You can go over to see her for a little while.
Although some of the men of Gray Horse Truck had seen more than ten years' continuous service in the house, not one could remember a time when Old Silver had not been on the nigh side of the poles. Mikes and Petes and Jims there had been without number.
Susan says Jims is the cleverest child she ever saw and can recognize Old Nick when he sees him this because Jims threw poor Doc out of an upstairs window one day. Doc turned into Mr. Hyde on his way down and landed in a currant bush, spitting and swearing. I tried to console his inner cat with a saucer of milk but he would have none of it, and remained Mr. Hyde the rest of the day.
"I wish I had spilled that pudding on purpose," Jims said vindictively, and with the saying his anger evaporated Jims never could stay angry long and left him merely a scared little fellow, with velvety, nut-brown eyes full of fear that should have no place in a child's eyes.
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