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Laferm, she couldn’t any more look after a youngster than she could after a baby elephant. By the by, what do you guess is the matter with her, any way?” “How, the matter?” Thérèse asked; the too ready blood flushing her face and neck as she laid down her work and looked up at Mrs. Worthington. “Why, she’s acting mighty queer, that’s all I can say for her.”
Hosmer took the frozen spray from Thérèse’s hand, and spoke a little about the beauty of the trees, especially the young cedars that he had passed out in the hills on his way home. “It’s all well and good to talk about flowers and things, Mrs. Laferm sit down please but when a person’s got the job that I’ve got on my hands, she’s something else to think about.
“Had the others all got back? Mrs. Laferm? Melicent? did they all stop at the store, too?” “Who? Aunt Thrérèse? no, she was up at the house w’en I lef’ I reckon Miss Melicent was there too. Talkin’ ’bout fun, it’s to git into one o’ them big spring wagons on a moonlight night, like they do in Centaville sometimes; jus’ packed down with young folks and start out fur a dance up the coast.
Laferm took people to be angels that they could live in a place like that, and give up everything and not have any kind of enjoyment out of life, why, she was mistaken and that’s all there was to it. To all of which freely expressed views Grégoire emphatically assented.
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