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"Yes," interposed Kezia, "or I would not give sixpence for his peace of mind these next six months." "It is all right if you tell us," said little Keren-happuch, who was her father's playmate.
For once Ralph was thoroughly taken aback, and blushed richly and long. Kezia laughed as one who enjoyed his discomfiture. "I knew it would come," she said. "Is she a milkmaid? She's not the minister's daughter, for he is a bachelor, you said!" Jemima and Keren-happuch actually looked a little relieved, though a good deal excited.
"Well, I'm sorry for that, Miss Keren-happuch, or shall it be Blossom?" "I like Blossom better," she answered shyly, lifting her scant calico skirt with one hand as she mounted the stile. "Then good night, lovely Blossom," he called gaily while he turned back into the bridle path which led like a frayed white seam over the pasture.
"Anything that interests you, Myrtle, interests me. I think you have some project in that young head of yours, my child. Let us have it, in all its dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. I think I can guess, Myrtle, that we have a little plan of some kind or other. We don't visit Papa Job quite so early as this without some special cause, do we, Miss Keren-Happuch?"
"Hollyhocks are not in bloom," said Deb. "I use snapdragon for caps, too. Now she has on a red and gold cap. This is a currant-leaf shawl." "Do you name them?" asked Rand, poising a columbine upon the back of his hand. "Of course," answered Deb. "All people have names. That is Sapphira." Miranda advanced a flourishing zinnia. "Dishyer Miss Keren-Happuch Marse Job's daughter."
He was, indeed, engaged in an acrimonious discussion on the Wernerian theory, and at that moment he was developing a remarkable scientific passion, which threatened to sweep his adversaries from the face of the earth in the debris of their heresies. Within doors, however, Ralph found a very warm welcome from his three cousins Jemima, Kezia, and Keren-happuch.
Jemima was tall and angular, with her hair accurately parted in the middle, and drawn in a great sweep over her ears a fashion intended by Nature for Keren-happuch, who was round of face, and with a complexion in which there appeared that mealy pink upon the cheeks which is peculiar to the metropolis.
She is quite an authority on Scripture, is grandma, and she can repeat the first chapter in Chronicles backward, which the minister couldn't do when he tried." "I'd like to hear the name that would sound ugly on your lips, Miss Keren-happuch." If the sons of farmers had sought to enchant her ears with similar strains, there was no hint of it in the smiling eyes she lifted to his.
Jemima ruled him, Kezia teased him the privilege of beauty but it was generally little Keren-happuch who fetched his slippers and sat with her cheek against the back of his hand as he smoked and read in his great wicker chair by the north window. There was the sound of quick nervous footsteps with an odd halt in their fall on the gravel walk outside.
"How do you know it is a 'her'?" asked Ralph, clumsily trying to put off time, like a man. Kezia laughed on her own account, Keren-happuch, because Kezia laughed, but Jemima said solemnly: "I hope she is of a serious disposition." "Nonsense! I hope she is pretty," said Kezia. "And I hope she will love me," said little Keren-happuch.
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