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Only to make fun of. And I wish I hadn't come." Hiram was smitten dumb for a moment. He had danced once with Lettie, but the other town girls had given him no opportunity to do so. And it was plain that Lettie's school friends preferred the few boys who had come up from town to any of the farmers' sons who had come to the husking. "I guess you're right, Sister.
The lighted windows, the smell of good things cooked for supper, brought him no sense of satisfaction; he had to make a distinct effort to enter and to present a face of welcome to his two guests, who were already there, awaiting him. "Couldn't get in earlier," he said, replying to Lettie's half-anxious, half-playful scoldings.
As soon as she laid eyes on that dog she knew what he was going to do, and without speaking a word, she rushed right at him and lowered her horns. Now, it's a good thing for that dog that the sharp ends of Aunt Lettie's horns had been sawed off. So, you see, when she stuck them in that dog's ribs, they only tickled him and he had to laugh, instead of sticking right through him.
"And I did not believe myself that you could do it," declared the gentleman. "And it's too bad, too, that I was a Doubting Thomas," added Mr. Bronson, his eyes beginning to dance a good deal like Lettie's. "You see, Hiram, I had it in my mind when I took this place to get a young men from around here and teach him something of my ways of work, and finally take him back West with me.
Yes, Marjie knew that. "Well he's gone anyhow, and I don't care." "Why should you care?" Marjie could not help the retort. She was stung to the quick in every nerve. Lettie's face blazed with anger. "Or you?" she stormed. "He was with me last. I can prove it, and a lot more things you'd never want to hear. But you'll never be his girl again."
"I could cut a pole and reach it to the boat; but you girls couldn't walk ashore on it." "Oh, dear! have we got to wade?" cried one of Lettie's friends. "You can't wade. It's too deep between the shore and the boat," Hiram said, calmly. "Then then we'll stay here till the tide rises and dr-dr-drowns us!" wailed another of the girls, giving way to sobs.
And always, as an under-current, he was saying that for himself he cared naught Kitely could do what he liked, or would have done what he liked, had there only been himself to think for. But Lettie! All his life was now centred in her, and in her happiness, and Lettie's happiness, he knew, was centred in the man she was going to marry.
It was the first time that I had approached it without the abyss of shadow under its roof. A little elasticity came back to me. Kino came out to give his welcome: we had become friendly. Katie let me in. "Perhaps you'd choose to wait down-stairs a bit," she said; "Mr. Abraham's getting his tea up in Miss Lettie's room." She lighted the lamp, and left me.
"Now, I will lead you to your Aunt Lettie's house," said the rabbit, "and you won't be lost any more." So the three Wibblewobble children felt much better and happier, and when they were almost at their aunt's house, a big hawk swooped down out of the sky and tried to bite Lulu. But Uncle Wiggily hit the bad bird with his barber-pole crutch, and the hawk flew away, flopping his wings and tail.
"Bernard McKey, whom I have made most miserable, Lettie's life-long suffering, is there any atonement that I can offer to them?" "Yes, Mr. Axtell"; and I, too, arose, for the party had gone whilst I was telling my story. "Will you name it?" "Give unto the two a brother's love. Good night, Mr. Axtell." "I will," said a deep, solemn voice close beside me. I turned, and Mr. Axtell was gone.
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