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Mary Agatha looked pityingly at her. "You know what a bride is? And you know what's Heaven?" The bell rang. Emmy Lou returned to the mental eminence of her Fifth Reader heights, still hazy. Yet she hardly needed the Dictionary, for she knew a bride. Aunt Katie had been a bride. With a diamond star. And presents. And Emmy Lou knew Heaven. Though lately Emmy Lou's ideas of Heaven had broadened.
When he awakened the shadows had lengthened to those of mid-afternoon, and there was a delicious, unaccustomed aroma in the air. He gazed about him in a bewildered fashion to find Lou sitting cross-legged in the grass, and spread upon it on the apron between them were the rolls and ham, and a huckleberry pie, still warm, and fairly exuding juice. "Good Lord, where did you get it?" he demanded.
Shall we reject the metamorphosis of the Chaoucho-grapaou, when people tell us in all seriousness that, in the present stage of scientific knowledge, it is absolutely proved that man is descended from some rough-hewn Ape? Of the two transformations, Favier's strikes me as the more credible. "Ve, l'home a lou dintre d'un por et lou defero d'uno mounino."
But their combined capital would not have covered the price of the tickets, and there was supper to be thought of, and the hazards of the immediate future. For the present the circus must remain an unattained dream to Lou.
So when the little boy held out the rubber band across the aisle, Emmy Lou took the proffered end. At this the little boy slid back into his desk holding to his end. At the critical moment of elongation the little boy let go. And the property of elasticity is to rebound. Emmy Lou's heart stood still. Then it swelled. But in her filling eyes there was no suspicion, only hurt.
It may have been minutes, it seemed to Emmy Lou hours, before there came a general up-rising. Hattie stood up. So did Sadie and Emmy Lou. Their skirts no longer stood out jauntily; they were quite crushed and subdued. There was a wild, hunted look in Hattie's eyes. "Watch the chance," she whispered, "and run." But it did not come.
Flora only stayed a minute, and when she and Lou went out, she says, 'Lou, has Annie Poett been here since he was taken sick? and Lou began to cry and said that her mother answered the telephone when Annie called up last week, and it seems Annie asked was Joe Lowney sick and Mrs. King said 'No." "For heaven's sake!" Mrs. Monroe said, incredulous and absorbed. "Well, that's what Flora said.
A teacher from the Grammar School came and examined the class. Later, one went back to find out. There was red ink written across the reports of Sadie and Sally and Mary Agatha and Rebecca. It said "Failure." Emmy Lou breathed. There was no red ink on her report. Emmy Lou had passed for the Grammar School. Down-stairs Mary Agatha said her papa would see to it because she had failed.
"Of course you would!" her mother always said approvingly. "Now, Georgie," she would pursue, "is different again. Where Mary Lou only wants the very NICEST people about her, Georgie cares a good deal more for the money and having a good time!" "The man I marry has got to make up his mind that I'm going to keep on the go," Georgie would admit, with an independent toss of her head.
"But, Jasper, he's the son of a United States Jedge." "Wall, but thar ain't no objection to that, is there?" "Oh, how tormentin' a man kin be when he tries." "Oh, how tormentin' a woman kin be when she don't try." "Did anybody ever hear the like? Jasper, don't you see how much Lou is a thinkin' of him? Air you so blind that you can't see that?
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