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Updated: June 15, 2025
There were certain trials and duties to life that men and women accepted and did not try to evade. A modern happy woman would have been bored at the call of a dissatisfied old woman every few days. But since the death of Mehitable Doule, Priscilla's own cousin, who had been married from her house, she had clung more to the Leveretts.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, mother, Miss Upton is going home to dinner with us to-day." "No, no, I'm not, Ben," put in Miss Mehitable hastily. "I couldn't leave Charlotte alone for Sunday dinner; but" she looked at Mrs. Barry "I do want to see Ben about something and he promised me a little time this afternoon." "Mehit got into trouble yesterday," Ben explained to his mother.
"Quilts be everlastingly condemned. I'm going to tell Aunt Hitty." "No," said Araminta, "I'm going to tell her my own self, so now! And I'll tell her to-morrow!" It was after ten when Ralph took Araminta home. From the parlour window Miss Mehitable was watching anxiously. She had divested herself of the rustling black silk and was safely screened by the shutters.
In a word, Mehitable Sampson. Something twitched at the corners of the man's mouth as he glanced round at this sudden and singular champion. Something may have twitched under his comfortable waistcoat, also. At any rate, he passed on; and the children the brief battledore over in which they had been the shuttlecocks crept back, compliant with the second order, much amazed, toward the stove.
I know a lawyer who can collect it." "If you do," commented Miss Mehitable, ironically, "you know more 'n I do." She tried to speak with assurance, but her soul was quaking within her. Was it possible that any one knew she had over three hundred dollars safely concealed in the attic? "I mean exactly what I say," continued Ralph.
"Yes, I know what you're thinkin'," said Miss Mehitable cheerfully; "but the queerest thing and the nicest thing happened to me this mornin'. I got some money that I didn't expect. Just in the nick o' time, you see. We can go to town and " Geraldine reached up a hand and took that of her friend, her face growing eager. "How splendid!" she exclaimed.
Miss Upton's little establishment was in nice order by this time and the sign had been hung up over the door: "The Mermaid Shop." By the time Mrs. Barry's car stopped before it, the three residents had eaten their dinner and the dishes were set away. "There's so few folks here yet, there's hardly anything to do in the store," said Miss Mehitable to Geraldine.
"He promised me oh, he promised me, he wouldn't go back to that farm alone." The girl's eyes filled with tears that overflowed on her suddenly pale cheeks. Miss Mehitable sat down on the edge of the bed and patted her, while Geraldine wiped the drops away with the long sleeve of Charlotte's unbleached nightgown. "Then he won't, dear, don't you worry," she said comfortingly.
At length the persistent sound wore upon Miss Evelina, much as the vibration of sound may distress one totally deaf. The kitchen door was open and Miss Evelina went outdoors. Miss Mehitable continued to converse, then shortly perceived that she was alone. "Well, I never!" she gasped. "Guess I'll go home!"
This last heresy had been learned from Ralph, only the night before. "Married!" gasped Miss Mehitable, again. "Yes," returned Araminta, firmly, "married. My mother was married, and Ralph's mother was married, and your mother was married. Everybody's mother is married, and Mr. Thorpe says it's the nearest there is to Heaven. He was going to be married himself, but she died.
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