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"Singular it is, you know," he said at last, with a candid air, "people who know nothing about business have the oddest ideas no common sense in 'em!" After that he fell dead silent. Wilfrid knew that it would be hard for him to speak. To encourage him, he said: "You mean Mrs. Chump, sir?" "Oh! silly woman absurd! No, I mean all of you; every man Jack, as Martha'd say.
Bella's head shot out and in, the door slammed again, and there arose from the other side of it faint, squeaky sounds from the organ. "Goodness me! you can hardly hear her!" cried Mrs. Winters. "I told Christena Martha'd spoil it! My sakes! I wish Ella Anne Long hadn't run away so soon! Now open the door, Bella, awful slow. Now, Elsie, go on. Arabella, hang on to your flowers!
"If that's the case," says I, "it won't take me long to clear out; but I guess I'll wait until I get the hint direct. You'd better wait too." Martha'd made up her mind, though. She says she'd go right then if it wa'n't for leavin' the servants alone in the house; but the very minute Sister Zenobia arrives she means to beat it.
I finds it on my plate at dinner time; so both the old ladies was on hand when I opens it. "Why, Torchy!" says Aunt Martha, lookin' at me shocked and scandalized. "A young lady's picture!" "Yep," says I. "Ain't she a dream, though?" And, say, Martha'd been lecturin' me yet if it hadn't been for Zenobia breakin' in.
"Singular it is, you know," he said at last, with a candid air, "people who know nothing about business have the oddest ideas no common sense in 'em!" After that he fell dead silent. Wilfrid knew that it would be hard for him to speak. To encourage him, he said: "You mean Mrs. Chump, sir?" "Oh! silly woman absurd! No, I mean all of you; every man Jack, as Martha'd say.
Aunt Martha might be deaf and half blind and very childish, but she was resolved to keep the commissariat in her own hands, in spite of all Mary's wiles and stratagems. "I can tell you if old Martha'd let ME cook you'd have some decent meals," she told the manse children indignantly. "There'd be no more 'ditto' and no more lumpy porridge and blue milk either. What DOES she do with all the cream?"
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