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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Come down," says Bonnie Bell, "and you and I can look at my horses and boat and things. After that I'll take you home." "Oh, may I go?" says this Katherine girl. "You see, I suppose I must get home before they tell mommah." Well, she hadn't more than got out on our porch than she knew in a minute where she was. This was where she showed she was a lady born and a good girl too.
By and by Katherine picks up Bonnie Bell's hand and looks it over, and there wasn't no rings on it. "Are you engaged yet, Bonnie?" she ast. Bonnie Bell kind of blushed at that. "No," says she. "Are you?" "No. Mommah says I'm too young," says she; "but then " "Yes," says Bonnie Bell; "but then " Old Man Wright he turns to me after they'd all went away.
Anyway, when she tried for the Dames they threw her down. Mommah was Regent or something of the Dames then too not that I think mommah would do anything that isn't fair. But Old Lady Wisner got her back up then, and she's been hard to curry ever since. We don't try." "Well," says Bonnie Bell, "isn't that strange? I thought everybody in the Row was friendly except except "
You see, if a girl is handsome women mostly hate her; the men don't which is why. "This is our neighbor, Miss Wright, mommah," says Katherine. "They live just below us a little way." She got red in the face then, for everybody on the street there knew about us and the high fence; yet nobody knew us personal. But Katherine's ma was different from most of these other people.
Yes," says Katherine. "They didn't speak for a while. You know, Honey, the Wisners are among our best people. But then, mommah's a Daughter of the Revolution and a Colonial Dame, and a Patriot Son, or something of the sort besides. Mrs. Wisner, she's only a Daughter and not a Dame; so she doesn't rank quite as high as mommah. Some said that she faked her ancestors when she come in too.
I guess that's about as good as coming from Iowa and carrying your dinner in a pail while you're getting your start selling sausage casings in a basket. I don't think a packer's much nohow. We're in leather. "But, good-by," says she now. "I've got to go home. I've got to tell mommah to get those papers started. Pretty soon I'll bring Tom over."
"They built it to show us our place," says Bonnie Bell, brave as you like. "They didn't think that they didn't know " "It was cruel," says Katherine, red in her face now, she was so mad about it. "I'm glad you mentioned that fence I couldn't; but all my people said it was the meanest thing ever done. It was vulgar! It was low! That's what my mommah says.
"Well now, all these leaders of our best people they want to carry the bell and go on ahead. That's what Mrs. Wisner wants and maybe mommah, though she has a different way of doing things. Mommah's a dear! So are you, Honey; and I do wish Tom and you " "I was just wondering who it was got out of their car just now," says Bonnie Bell. "But the fence "
I didn't know they cared so much here. But my people were first settlers and builders, and always in the army and navy." "How perfectly dear!" says Katherine. "We'll start you in as a Daughter; that'll make Old Lady Wisner mad, but she can't help it mommah will take care of that. Then we'll make you a Dame next that'll help things along.
"No, it don't," says she; "but I'd like it if you would take me home in your car," says she. "I want you to come in and meet my mommah. We want to come down here if you'll let us, all of us. Will you let us? Will you let us, Bonnie?" says she. Now, ain't it funny how much can happen quiet and easy?
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