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Miss Arabella rubbed her eyes, and wondered, in dismay, if she had been gifted with a new kind of double vision. "Oh, my land alive!" she whispered. "Has Jake Sawyer been and gone and brought home all the orphant asylum? Mercy me! Is the yard full o' ye?" For still another head was struggling to make its appearance above the fence-top.
P'r'aps it would be better to take a leetle pasear now, but later we can come back and find another orphant infunt and christen her the Phoenix, which is Greek fur sold agin."
'Well, I says, 'I guess we've got our orphant all right, an' Jake says, 'Oh, Hannah, but your girl! 'Never mind the girl, says I, 'this one was made for us, an' his name, too. Well, we jist turned 'round to tell the matron, when I sees a wee girl, with curly hair, standin' straight in front o' Jake an' starin' at him, with her lip quiverin'. That's the fair one o' the twins.
"Alice Maud Mary Van Ostend." "Gee whiz, ain't that a corker!" Flibbertigibbet exclaimed delightedly. "How old are you?" She proceeded thus with her personal investigation prompted thereto by Freckles. "Most ten; you?" "Most twelve." "And Freckles?" The Marchioness laughed as she spelled the name. "Eleven." "Ask her if she's an orphant," said Freckles. "Are you an orphan, Freckles says."
The stewardess came to their help, and persuaded a steward to open a case of bottles and give her the sawdust in which they were packed. Mrs. Patterson received it with an exclamation of delight and held out a silver coin in return. But Vaughan put her hands behind her. "Please'm," she said, "it ain't much. But I wanted to do something for that poor little orphant." Mrs.
The four surveyed Miss Arabella's evident consternation with great enjoyment, while that startled lady stood and stared at the array with something of the feelings that Cadmus must have experienced when he beheld the fierce warriors rise from the planting of the dragon's teeth. "We're the Sawyer orphant," said the eldest imp, with apparent relish.
'I shall have to wash it over again before you can wear it, I know, said Mrs. Hayward. 'Not as I grudges the trouble; he's a poor lost orphant, that it's a shame to see so treated. Mrs. Hayward did not know that she was bestowing the cup of cold water, as well as being literally ready to wash the feet of the poor disciple.
"I'm goin' to take 'im to 'is folks, that's wot I'm goin' to do with 'im," announced The Hopper. "Yer crazy yer plum' crazy!" cried Humpy, slapping his knees excitedly. "Ye kin take 'im to an orphant asylum an' tell um ye found 'im in that machine ye lifted. And mebbe ye'll git by with ut an' mebbe ye won't, but ye gotta keep me out of ut!"
"Well, Ella Anne Long, there won't be no orphant to bring home if you folks has your way!" The exasperated little woman darted down the cellar steps, her voice coming up from the cool depths, indistinct, but plainly disapproving: "Lemon pie an' ras'berry vinegar! If Providence hasn't given folks children, it's a sign they didn't ought to have any!
'Look now, answered Andy; 'ye couldn't make yerself ugly musthore, not if yer wor thryin' from this till then, so ye needn't frown; but ye're very hard-hearted intirely on a poor orphant like me, that has nayther father nor mother, nor as much as an uncle, nor a cousin near me itself.
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