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Strikes me, you're a bit huffy to-day, Little-sing." "No, I am not; only I've been worried since Maggie came back. She was so rude to you yesterday. I felt it terribly." "Did you now? Well, that was very sensible of you. We'll finish our tea before we begin our talk. Come, Little-sing, eat your cake and drink your tea, and make yourself agreeable to your Bo-peep." Mrs. Howland felt cheered.
"I say, Little-sing," he remarked, "whoever has been and done it?" "What do you mean, James?" said Mrs. Howland. "Why, the place," said Martin; "it looks sort of different." "Oh, it's Maggie," said Mrs. Howland. "She went out and bought all those cakes for you herself." "Bless me, now, did she?" said Martin. "She's a smart girl a ver-ry smart girl." "She's a very clever girl, James."
Martin, with some faint instinct still left of her own life, would have preferred to use the drawing-room in the evenings; but when she suggested this Bo-peep said, "No, no, Little-sing; I can smoke here and sit by the fire, and enjoy the rest which I have rightly earned. I hate rooms full of fal-lals. You can keep your drawing-room for the time when I am out, Little-sing." Mrs.
There's no saying but that Little-sing and me may come along some afternoon when you least expect us." Maggie crushed the letter in her hand. Fresh terrors seemed to surround her. Dreadful as the impossible clothes were, they were nothing to what the appearance on the scene would be of the impossible stepfather and her poor mother.
The awful fact that her mother was going to marry such a being as Mr. Martin overpowered her with such a sense of horror that for the time she felt quite dumb and stupid. Mr. Martin, however, was in a radiant humor. "Now then, Little-sing," he said, addressing Mrs. Howland, "where's the tea! Poor Bo-peep wants his tea. He's hungry and he's thirsty, is Bo-peep.
"Yes, that's how I put it very clever. She has a way about her." "She has, James. Every one thinks so." "Well, Little-sing, give me a good meal, and then we'll talk." Mrs. Howland lifted the teapot and was preparing to pour out a cup of tea for Mr. Martin, when he looked at her, noticed her extreme elegance and grace, and made a spring toward her.
He thought her very beautiful indeed. His heart swelled with pride. She belonged to him. He hated fine ladies, as a rule; but a fine lady who was his very own was a different matter. He even felt romantic. She was reading a letter. Who could have been writing to Little-sing? Suddenly it occurred to him to slip down the area steps and stand close under the window.
Leave the room." Tildy breathed a little quickly, felt inclined to pat master on the back, thought better of it, and left the room. "Whatever is keeping Little-sing?" thought Martin to himself. He was not going to worry about cook and her whims, but of Little-sing and the letter. He grew a little more suspicious, and consequently a little more angry.
What do you say, Little-sing?" Little-sing replied that it would be charming; but in her heart she somewhat shuddered, and was glad that the pianola was still a thing to be purchased. Tildy had been turned into a very presentable little parlor-maid. There was also a first-rate cook, for Martin was fond of the pleasures of the table. On the whole, the little household was comfortable, and Mrs.
During dinner James Martin was in high good humor, and it was not until dessert was put on the table and he had helped himself liberally to port wine, and was filling his pipe for his evening smoke, that it occurred to him to speak to his wife about Maggie. "By the way," he said, "I did a right good turn for that girl of yours, Little-sing, before I left for Liverpool.
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