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As a matter of fact, the poor old dear is head over heels in love with him do you see? in that sort of old-maid way you know the kind of thing I mean. She thinks there's nobody like him, and neither there is. I shall miss him frightfully while he's down there telling Uncle Jarrott. I shall skip half my invitations and go regularly into retreat till he comes back.
Uncle Billy's old-maid sister, who lived on Devil's Fork, had been cooking for him at home since the last taking to bed of June's step-mother. Bub had "growed up" like a hickory sapling. Her cousin Loretta hadn't married, and some folks allowed she'd run away some day yet with young Buck Falin.
The yellow damask furniture, the rugs, the silver and gold and lovely extravagances seemed laughing at her and suggesting: "Go back to your filing cabinet and your old-maid silk dusting cloths, to your rest-rooms for girls, and to your arguments with city salesmen. You have no more right here than she will ever have in your office."
Drugg and 'Rill Scattergood "that was," to use a provincialism. The girl really felt as though she had helped more than a little to bring the storekeeper and the old-maid school-teacher together after so many years of misunderstanding. It goes without saying that Mrs. Scattergood had given no aid in making the match.
"Well then I'll ask Miss Maria!" he concluded, mentioning one who was the typical "old-maid" of the town, and who unconsciously bore the brunt of all the young people's jokes.
"Can't I have a pack of cards?" asked Lloyd with a happy inspiration. "Against the rule," said the guard. "But I know some games of solitaire. I never could see what they were invented for until now. Let me have part of a pack, just enough to play old-maid solitaire. Ever heard of that?" The guard shook his head. "Not even a part of a pack? You won't even let me play old-maid solitaire?"
"Galloway won't come," said Tetlow curtly. "So much the worse for him," retorted Norman placidly. "No I've not been drinking too much, old man as your worried old-maid look suggests. Do a little thinking. If Galloway doesn't get me, whom will he get?" "You know very well, Norman, there are scores of lawyers, good ones, who'd crawl at his feet for his business.
"Does one ever know why one's sad?" she asked in a bewitchingly appealing tone.. "Well, I imagine that sometimes one dees," put in Aunt Nettie, drily. Missy ignored Aunt Nettie; often it was best to ignore Aunt Nettie she was mother's old-maid sister, and she "understood" even less than mother did. Luckily just then, Marguerite, the coloured hired girl, came to clear off the table.
I had got used to my own quiet, old-maid ways. I was done, or thought I was done, with passion and romance; and now to be tossed about in this way, on the billows of doubt to love and not to love to feel revengeful and forgiving to think one way in the morning and another way by noon, is very tiresome. I really do not know what to do with him."
Dear reader, Grace was not a severe, angular, old-maid sister, ready to snarl at the advent of a young beauty; but an elegant and accomplished woman, with a wide culture, a trained and disciplined mind, a charming taste, and polished manners; and, above all, a thorough self-understanding and discipline.
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