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Aunt Fiction told him all the children had said; but he answered impatiently: "Tut, tut! my dear: I want the facts of the case. You are apt to exaggerate; and Fancy is not to be relied on. If the child isn't a fool, she must know more about herself than she pretends. Now, answer truly, Luly, where did you come from?"
Well, Luly came to my school, and stood up or sat down, just as she liked. She was the only scholar I had, so I was not particular about that; but after she had learned to read, she would "keep still" for hours together without minding it, if you'd only give her a book. Poor little Luly; she didn't mean to be naughty; she only wanted something to do.
Luly and me were the first in all our classes, and 'specially praised for our French and music and those sort of things," said Rose, rather offended at Uncle Alec's criticism. "I dare say; but if your French grammar was no better than your English, I think the praise was not deserved, my dear." "Why, uncle, we did study English grammar, and I could parse beautifully.
The towns within it are Towsam, Duyom, Lu, Bokean, Dom or Doung, Seagally-hood and Tong luly luku; all these are governed by Datus from Sulo, who have expressly settled here to collect the prodigious quantities of birds'-nests abounding in this district. They are procured here at ten dollars the catty; and sent to Sulo, with tripan, wax, &c.
"The critics condemn minute representation," said Powers; "but you may look at this through a microscope and see if it injures the general effect." Nature herself never made a prettier or truer little hand. It was the hand of his daughter, "Luly's hand," Powers called it, the same that gave my own such a frank and friendly grasp when I first met "Luly."
Rose pulled her pet curl and put up her lip, but had to own that she was wrong, and said meekly, after a pause which threatened to be sulky, "I suppose I should have said 'Luly and I, in that case, and 'that sort of things' and 'rightly, though 'correctly' would have been a better word, I guess." "Thank you; and if you will kindly drop 'I guess, I shall like my little Yankee all the better.
The sculptor made it only for himself and his wife, but so many people, he said, had insisted on having a copy, that there are now forty scattered about the world. At sixty years, Luly ought to have her hand sculptured again, and give it to her grandchildren with the baby's hand of five months old.
Miss Power used to have us up to show off when people came. I don't see but I talk as right as most girls." "I dare say you do, but we are all too careless about our English. Now, think a minute, and tell me if these expressions are correct 'Luly and me, 'those sort of things, and 'as right as most girls."
Being an old maid, of course I couldn't rest easy till I found out the reason of this; and I soon did it, as you'll see, if you read on to the end of my story. One day Luly came to me saying, "Tell me a story, there's a good Kizzy, I am tired of running round." Well, I knit to my seam needle, and then I took her up on my lap and began: Once there was a little girl whose name was Violetta.
At first I didn't understand how it was, and I felt very much like saying I didn't like it; for Luly seemed to be a nice little girl, and playful as a little kitty. She was always laughing, singing, and dancing now in at one door, and now out at the other, like a will-o'-the-wisp, or a jack-o'-lantern. Why on earth they didn't like Luly, I couldn't see.
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