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I tell you what it is, Brother Littell, the women folks 'd take the money they fritter away on ribbons and artificial flowers an' gold an'costly apparel, which I have saw them turned away from the love-feast fer wearin', an' 'ud give it in fer quarterage an' he'p support the preachin' of the Word, they wouldn't need to be no shows in the meetin' house an' they 'd be more expeerimental religion."
T. Gardiner Littell, a man of eminent goodness and intelligence. St. John's has a beautiful open roof, stained windows and a fine organ: it can offer seats to seven hundred worshipers.
In Littell you will find how few are the recent Sam Johnsons as compared with the recent friendly writers. You will also be reminded that our anti-English complex was discerned generations ago by Washington Irving.
She had found the Littell girls slow to overtures of friendship, and they persisted in displaying an annoying fancy for the society of Betty and the Guerin girls, who, for all Ada knew, might be what she described to her mother as "perfect nobodies."
The mechanism jammed between the third and second floors and the elevator came to a stop with a suddenness that jarred the teeth of the passengers. It had begun to fall after leaving the seventh floor. For a moment every one stared at every one else stupidly. Bobby Littell was the first to find her voice. "Well, I guess we're all here," she observed matter-of-factly. "Esther, are you hurt?"
"Now, don't try to make out that you did it on purpose!" exclaimed Esther, the youngest Littell sister. "It was too lovely for anything," sighed Libbie. "I'm glad you think so," said Betty. "Oh! you mean what Bob did. I see. Of course he is lovely always has been. But don't tell him so, for it utterly spoils boys if you praise them doesn't it Bobby?"
Littell, who never found young people either boys or girls troublesome; three delightful sisters named Louise, Roberta, and Esther Littell; and a Cousin Elizabeth Littell, who good-naturedly becomes "Libbie" instead of "Betty" so as not to conflict in anybody's mind with "Betty" Gordon.
Ida Bellethorne was not much like the girls Betty knew. She seemed even more sedate than the seniors at Shadyside where Betty had attended school with the Littell girls since the term had opened in September. Ida Bellethorne was not, however, in any such happy condition as the girls Betty Gordon knew.
Littell playing solitaire, and something in his undisguised relief at seeing them made Betty wonder if time did not hang heavily on his hands. After dinner Bobby proposed that they turn on the phonograph and have a little dance among themselves. "Oh, that will be fine!" cried Betty. "Then you can dance?" "A little mother taught me."
"But Betty Gordon looks the way I thought Betty Littell would look, so I don't see that I am to blame." "Trust Bobby to excuse herself from a scrape," chuckled her father. "By the way, how are you going to arrange about names? Two Bettys in the family will involve complications." "I think we'll have to call Betty Littell, 'Libbie'" suggested Mrs. Littell, smiling.
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