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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Certainly, certainly, I know all that, but, really, these frequent duns this Homeseekers' Excursion has put me behind with my work, but as soon as things are straightened out again " "Oh, of course. That's all right. I understand, but as soon as you conveniently can " Mr. Parrott's lengthened jaw rested between the "white wings" of his collar as he turned away.
"I'll stay if you want me to," said Rachel, moving closer to Miss Parrott's side. "No, dear not to-day, because it wouldn't be right; the parson and his wife only loaned you to me for to-day, but " "What's 'loaned'?" interrupted Rachel abruptly, and wrinkling her forehead. "Why, they only let me have you just for today," said Miss Parrott. "Oh."
Now give me some mush!" "If we only had known!" mourned Polly, clasping her hands. "Is it lined with green satin, Joel?" she asked suddenly. "I don't understand," said Mrs. Pepper, in a puzzled way. "Where were you, Joel, when Miss Parrott's man asked you? And you didn't go bareheaded, and without your coat?" "Out in the yard, Mamsie," answered Joel.
"Mamsie!" cried Joel, hoarsely, flinging himself into Mother Pepper's arms, as she came to the door to meet him, her face beaming with happiness at the realization that Miss Parrott's sleigh actually was waiting at the door to take her little ones for a sleigh-ride, "Mamsie! Miss Jerusha says I told a lie. Did I, Mammy?" and Joel clutched her and broke into a torrent of tears.
"Oh, I've been riding in Miss Parrott's coach," said Joel, trying to appear as if this were an everyday occurrence, and eating on as if nothing had happened. Miss Parrott lived in an old ancestral house, about two miles from Badgertown. She was very rich, but kept entirely to herself, and drove about in an ancient coach, the envy of all the villagers.
When the drive was ended, therefore, and the brougham, after its progress through an avenue of fine old trees, was brought to a standstill before the ancestral mansion where Miss Parrott's father and grandfather had lived before her, the visitor was in no condition to enjoy the pleasures thrust upon her.
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