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Updated: June 11, 2025
Away went the two little girls, Melvina's long braids dancing about, and her starched skirts blown back as she raced along; and, greatly to Anna's surprise, Melvina passed her and was first at the shop. "I beat! I beat!" exclaimed Melvina, her dark eyes shining and her face flushed with the unwonted exercise.
You will be happy, I know, with Henry Clarence, for he is worthy of you, and can appreciate your real excellence; and I shall be happy, I trust, with the man of my choice." "No doubt of it, Melvina. And by the way," Caroline said, laughing, "we shall make another 'sensation, and then we must be content to retire into peaceful domestic obscurity. You will have a brilliant time, I suppose?"
But she did not ask Anna to sit down, or to remove her sunbonnet. Melvina looked from Anna to her mother, not knowing what to say. "I think I must go now," said Anna, almost ready to cry. "Good-bye, Melvina; good-afternoon, Mrs. Lyon," and making another awkward curtsy Anna turned toward the door. "Oh, Danna! Don't go," called Melvina, running toward her; but Mrs. Lyon's firm hand held her back.
Weston was ready to start for the forest to select the liberty tree; but, greatly to his surprise, Anna said that she did not wish to go, and he started off without her. This was the first real sacrifice Anna had made toward becoming like Melvina. She was quite sure that Melvina would not go for a tramp in the forest.
This was aggravating, for Melvina had been two years a nurse in the Cole family and was well qualified to clear up these vexed questions.
"It will be like a storm dashing against granite cliffs," she thought whimsically. "Well, there is one merciful thing about it I shall not have to worry about Melviny gossiping or telling tales." In this assumption Lucy was quite right. Melvina Grey proved not only to be as dumb as an oyster but even more uncommunicative than that traditionally self-contained bivalve.
But her father and mother were quick to see that a great change had come over their little daughter. She no longer wanted to be called "Dan"; she told her mother that she wanted her hair to grow long, and she even asked Rebecca to teach her how to sew more evenly and with tinier stitches. For Anna had made a firm resolve; she would try in every possible way to be like Melvina Lyon.
Lyon, all her fine clothes are swept away, and it is my fault," he smiled down at her troubled face. "Be in no further alarm, my child. But come with me, for your feet are cut and bruised, and Mrs. Lyon will give you dry clothing. Melvina does not blame you in her story of this mischievous prank. But I doubt not you are both blameworthy. But 'twill be your parents' duty to see to thy punishment."
No, the weeks passed, and Ellen lay in blissful ignorance that the shuttle of Fate, ever speeding to and fro, was subtly entangling in its delicate meshes these heirs of an inherited hatred. Martin's sisters saw the romance and rejoiced; and although she gave no sign, Melvina Grey must also have seen it.
At first Luretta had been well pleased to see that Melvina was no longer vexed and unhappy; but when both her companions disappeared, and she found herself alone with Melvina's soiled and discarded skirts and the wet stockings, she began to feel that she was not fairly treated, and resolved to go home.
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