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He was talking to Maudie Sinclair when she arrived; he took off his hat, but did not allow his eyes to meet hers. She gathered her children round her, and sat down among the chaperons. Mrs.
"You can't come in here, Auntie Charlotte," was the command that greeted me at the very doorstep as young Charlotte faced me with short skirts outspread determinedly, while behind her Mikey of the red head, Jimmy, Sue, Maudie, the sister of Mikey, and other known and unknown juveniles, presented a solid support of defiance.
The mother blushed and said, "Why, Maudie, don't be so rude;" and there was a shout: "Fall in!" The lieutenant rode up to me and asked, as he noticed the glad smiles on the faces of the ladies, if this was a family reunion, and, apologizing for being compelled to raid the plantation, we rode away.
The tears went down her cheeks, as, with never a word, she nodded, and turned towards the tent. "Say," he hobbled after her, "that doctor's all right only wanted fifty." He laid four hundred-dollar bills in her hand. She seemed about to speak, when he interrupted hoarsely, "And look here: pull the Colonel through, Maudie pull him through!" "I'll do my darnedest." He held out his hand.
For Maudie in company was apt to be a little stiff and stand-offish in her manner. "I say," he said, "there's something I want you to do for me," and Ransome, in his recklessness, his magnificence, said "Right-O!" He said afterward that he had gathered from the expression of his friend's face that his trouble was financial, a matter of five bob, or fifteen at the very worst.
"The Colonel may stand a little orderin' about from Maudie don't blame him m'self. But Kentucky ain't going to be bossed by any of us." The Colonel lay quite still again, and when he spoke it was quietly enough. "Reckon I'm in the kind of a fix when a man's got to take orders." "Foolishness! Don't let him jolly you, boys.
Perhaps mamma is sicker than usual, or papa worried about business, or Tom in some new scrape. Don't look so frightened, Maudie, but come into the parlor and see what I 've got for you," said Polly, feeling that there was trouble of some sort in the air, but trying to cheer the child, for her little face was full of a sorrowful anxiety, that went to Polly's heart.
I have no patience with those highfilutin teachers who speak of matter as though it were ignoble in some way. Matter to me is as mysterious as spirit." At this moment a slight movement of the psychic arrested me, and as we listened the silvery sweet voice of "Maudie" issued from the darkness, saying: "Mr. Mitchell wants Mr. Garland to change places with Mr. Fowler.
And how could she keep him from coming, what excuse could she give? "Don't you want him to come is he old and fussy?" asked Rebecca, interestedly. "I'll see," Margaret answered vaguely. "No, he's only thirty-two or four." "And charming!" said Maudie archly. Margaret eyed her with a coolness worthy of Mrs. Carr-Boldt herself, and then turned rather pointedly to Rebecca. "How's Mother, Becky?"
The Boy turned his head round again with reviving interest in his own group. "Look here, Si," Maudie was saying: "if you want to let a lay on your new claim to anybody, mind it's got to be me." But the mackinaw man was glancing speculatively over at another group. In haste to forestall desertion, the Boy inquired: "Do you know of anything good that isn't staked yet?"
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