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Cheffinsky," she replied, "but I'm in a scrape, and a friend of mine once recommended me to this house. I saw some people come in, and a light. It's still a boarding-house, isn't it?" "It ain't no foundlin' orphant asylum." "I don't ask for charity. I've got money to pay my board. But I don't want an expensive room. One at the top of the house will do."
I thought I heard is it a child crying?" The stewardess started. "Gracious! I forgot her! A little girl's just across from you, ma'am an orphant, I guess. She's travelling alone with her uncle. And he charged me express when he came on board to look after her. Of course I forgot. My hands are that full my head won't hold it. It's 'Vaughan here' and it's 'Vaughan there, regular as clockwork.
Hoover, Mis' Peavey," she answered with dancing eyes and a lovely rose color mounting her cheeks. "Looks like all the love we have got for each other's orphant children have mixed itself up into a wedding cake for the family. I had laid off to tell you all about it this afternoon, and here's a box of peppermints Mr. Hoover sent everybody. He said to make you say sweet things about him to me.
"Yes, and her uncle, too." Gabriel seemed mystified. "You see, I haven't any father or mother either, Gabriel. My uncle has to be both," Blue Bonnet explained. "That's like me, too. I'm a orphant!" Blue Bonnet caught her breath quickly. To be an orphan and ill; desperately poor, too! The world wasn't such a cheerful place after all. "I lent the soldiers to another feller," Gabriel said presently.
It's named Lovely Lulu, or the Doctor's Darling. Lovely Lulu is a little orphant who has to do most of the housework for a family of eight, and the way they abuse that child is something awful. The young ladies are forever puttin' ruffled white skirts into her wash, and makin' her darn the lace on their blue silk mornin' dresses.
Any other woman in the township would have expressed surprise at Miss Arabella's remarkable position, and evident perturbation, but the silent Mrs. Munn looked at her unconcernedly. "Somethin' awful's happened, Harriet!" cried Miss Arabella. "Hannah's got her orphant, an' what d'ye s'pose it's like?" "It's got red hair," ventured Mrs. Munn, undisturbed. "Red hair!
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