Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
The man looked in astonishment from the girl to the woman. He noticed Jinnie's white face and the long blue mark running from her forehead to her chin. Molly, too, wore an expression which changed her materially. He stepped to the ground and leaned over the edge of their car. "Something happened?" he questioned, eyeing first one, then the other.
One quick glance was enough for Jinnie's comprehension. She leaned forward breathlessly. "What is it, Lafe?... Something great?" "Yes, something great, lassie, and in God's name most wonderful." Before Jinnie's world of imagery passed all the good she had desired for Lafe. His softly spoken, "In God's name most wonderful," thrilled her from head to foot.
Jinnie's receptive face caused the cobbler to proceed: "I wouldn't have nothin' to do with Bates' son Maudlin, if I was you.... He's a bad lot." Jinnie's head drooped. She flushed to her hair. "I saw him to-day," she replied. "He's got wicked eyes. I hate boys who wink!"
Jinnie whirled back to the little boy. "Bobbie, would you like to come in a club that'll make you happy as long's you live?" The bright blind eyes of the boy flashed from Jinnie to the man, and he got to his feet tremulously. In his little mind, out of which daylight was shut, Jinnie's words presaged great joy. The girl took his hand and led him to the cobbler.
Jinnie's arms went about him, but her tongue refused to speak. "Kiss me again!" Theodore insisted. Oh, how she wanted to kiss him once more! How she gloried in the strong arms, and the handsome face strung tense with his love for her! Then their lips met in the wonders of a second kiss.
Oh, I don't know what to do!" "I wisht I had somethin' for you, Jinnie dear," breathed Bobbie, touching her hand. Jinnie's only response was to put her fingers on the child's head her eyes still on the cobbler. "What did Peggy say, Lafe?" "Nothin', only you couldn't go in the clothes you got."
At dinner Peg cut off a very large piece of meat and flung it on Jinnie's plate. "I suppose you're plumin' yourself because you didn't go to school; but you needn't, 'cause nothin' could drag you from this shop, an' there's my word for it." Then she glanced at Lafe, and ended, "If 'er leg was nailed to your bench, she wouldn't be any tighter here. Now eat, all of you, an' keep your mouths shut."
"Well, you're only a child. Sometimes Bates can't sell all he gets, though." "I sold all mine," asserted Jinnie, brightening. The cobbler recalled the history of Jinnie's lonely little life of how during those first fifteen years no kindly soul had given her counsel, and now his heart glowed with thanksgiving as he realized that she was growing in faith and womanliness.
Like the man in the Merriweather kitchen, he bore the stamp of the city upon him. Virginia bought her ticket as her father had directed, and while the pail was still on the floor, she bent to examine Milly Ann and the kittens. The latter were asleep, but the mother-cat lazily opened her eyes to greet, with a purr, the soft touch of Jinnie's fingers.
Molly hurried on. A memory of fluttering fingers traveling over her face left Jinnie's heart cold. Next to Lafe and Theodore she had loved Bobbie best. "I loved him, oh, very much indeed!" she whispered. "And he often told you he loved his his mother?" "Yes." Molly was slowly drawing the girl's hands into hers. "He'd want me to be happy, Jinnie dear.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking