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"Tom would only laugh and say it was more old maidishness on the part of Navy men." "There confound the idiot!" suddenly blazed Dave Darrin. "He is crossing. Look at that boat wallow in the trough. Jupiter! There she goes over nearly!" All four young people on the float held their breath for an instant. The motor launch, after almost having turned turtle, righted itself.
But she took Miss Rosetta upstairs to the room where the baby was sleeping. "Oh, the little darling," cried Miss Rosetta, all her old maidishness and oddity falling away from her like a garment, and all her innate and denied motherhood shining out in her face like a transforming illumination. "Oh, the sweet, dear, pretty little thing!"
It was utterly baseless; and Miss Tippit was touched with this faint touch of supernal grace just because her Maker had so decreed. Miriam disliked Miss Tippit on account of her primness and old maidishness, and the frequent hints which she gave to keep her room in order.
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