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I only made the discovery myself today, you see, and I need time to think it all out and determine how best to take advantage of my good fortune." "I shall respect your wish, sir," said Mr. Merrick. The girls came trooping back then, and instead of running away Anson Jones remained to talk with them. Beth and Patsy were really surprised to find the "Sad One" chatting pleasantly with Uncle John.
"The bumps?" asked Arthur, as the wagon gave a jolt a bit more emphatic than usual; "yes, Patsy dear, I get them all; but I won't pass judgment on Millville and Uncle John's farm just yet. Are we 'most there?" "We're to have four whole months of it," sighed Beth. "That ought to enable us to renew our youth, after the strenuous winter." "Rubbish!" said Uncle John.
"My mother and I live so simply in our little flat," said one, "that we really haven't extra room to keep a cat. But we shall be glad to assist Uncle John as far as we are able." "Father can hardly support his own family," said the other; "but I will talk to my mother about Uncle John when I get home, and see what she says." "Oh, you don't need to, indeed!" cried Patsy, in great indignation.
In the pause that followed Uncle John gave a soft whistle and Patsy laughed outright, to the undisguised indignation of Louise. "Years ago," resumed the youth, "my father, who was a rich man, made a trip to Sicily and, although I did not know this until recently, was seized by brigands and imprisoned in the hidden valley we have just left.
She saw by her son's face that there was something more than usual in the wind, but one who had lived her life, from fortune to poverty, through strife and trial, was prepared to take things much more easily than Hugh. "Is it anything very serious?" "His daughter's coming out to live here." "What?" "Yes, here's the letter. It only came this morning. Patsy was late, the river is up.
"Patsy," he answered, "how many have loved you Princes and Princesses, men and women in another world than mine? Now, none of these love me and strange as it may seem, I am not disquieted about the matter." "I daresay not," snapped Patsy, who this morning for some reason was easily irritated, "but they are not here. Eben and Whitefoot are, and they go about worshipping you.
So Beth and Patsy leaped out of the surrey and the former called out: "We will run through the forest, Uncle, and get home as soon as you do." "Be careful not to show yourselves, then," he replied. "Remember our plans." "We will. And don't forget to tie the horses in the thicket, and warn Thomas and Nora to keep quiet until we come for them," said Patsy.
"We are to become public mentors to the simple natives of Chazy County," continued Patsy, warming up to her subject and speaking oratorically. "We shall be the guiding star of the er er the benighted citizens of Millville and Huntingdon. We must lead them in politics, counsel them in the management of their farms and educate them to the great World Movements that are constantly occurring."
"It's a high ambition, isn't it?" "A very laudable ambition," added Uncle John approvingly. "I hope my clever nieces will be able to accomplish it." "How about pictures?" asked Beth. "Modern newspapers are illustrated, and have cartoons of the leading events of the day." "Can't we buy those things somewhere?" asked Patsy, appealing to Uncle John again.
Patsy didn't know just what father had done, but he had an idea it was something regarding the disappearance of numerous suits of clothes from a tailor's shop. Patsy was going into business himself just as soon as they let him stop school; he was going to sell papers. He had tried several times to wean himself from education, but each time they haled him back to the schoolhouse.
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