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"What for?" "Walk on the foundation; it's all finished and splendid to race on all the way round." "Jolly idea," cried Kat, jumping from her bench, forgetting a previous assertion, that it was, "too hot to move!" and away they went, down the walk, at the usual break-neck speed taken by them, when in a hurry; Kittie rushing through the gate, while Kat nimbly cleared the fence.
Bea went to her boxes, with a vague idea that the gloves and feather were in some way connected with the mystery; but they were put away with greatest possible care, and Kat, who always did the absurd things in hasty moments, reported that all her clothes and dresses were in their places, so she couldn't have gone away. "Of course not; there's no place for her to go to," answered Olive. "Mrs.
Then Grandmother took another apron out of the press. It looked as if it had been there a long time. "Kat, you must wear this," she said. "It was your mother's when she was a little girl." Now, this apron was all faded, and it had patches on it of different kinds of cloth. Kat looked at her best dress. Then she looked at the apron. Then she thought about the milk cart.
Sha't see great sights. She sprang up, tearing herself from him. 'Get thee gone from here, she shivered. 'I am done with starving with thee. I know thy apple orchard wooings. Get thee gone from here. It is late. I shall be shamed if a man be seen to leave my room so late. 'Why, I would not have thee shamed, Kat, he muttered, her strenuous tone making him docile as a child.
"If she loved him, she wouldn't love you so much," said Kat, slyly. "Then I'm glad you don't," exclaimed Pansy, with sudden satisfaction, and returning to her seat with an enraptured smile. There was no mistaking the child's devotion.
Oh!" cried Kit and Kat. "We're hungry yet! Can't we go now?" "No, not now," said Father. "We must do some work first." The Twins helped Father Vedder a long time. They learned to count ten and to do several other things. Then their father gave them the money for the cabbage and the ten onions they had sold to Vrouw Van der Kloot, and said,
Kittie jumped down in a hurry; examined the limp and already swelling wrist with anxious gravity, and then nearly strangled with laughter when, after several vigorous tugs and struggles, Kat came out of the mud, leaving both her slippers hopelessly buried, and her clothes so heavy she could hardly walk.
He ate it, leaning on his hoe. When they went back to the house, it was late in the afternoon. Grandmother was rolling up her knitting. "I must go home to Grandfather;" she said. "He'll be wanting his supper." The Twins walked down the road as far as the first bridge with Grandmother. There she kissed them good-bye and sent them home. When their mother put them to bed that night, Kat said,
"Yes, it will look lovely," said Bea slowly; she was really too astonished and hurt to say any more; but Kat cried out explosively: "Oh Ernestine Dering! you selfish, selfish, old pig, you " "Know mama wants shoes," interrupted Kittie, with her voice full of indignant tears.
"Yes, gone," repeated Bea. "He found that he could make connections right through by taking this afternoon's train, and he raced all around town an hour before train-time, to find you. Kittie said you were going after dinner." "Yes, but I changed my mind," said Kat slowly, then turned and went out. Gone, and with no good-bye to her! She wondered a little to see how much the thought hurt her.
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