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"Yes," added his cousin, "peppermints, candy, cakes, and more perhaps; but it is the first time he ever went a shopping on a holiday." "All your money for that worthless thing, that is enough to make us crazy! You ought to have known better. Suppose you had had twice as much money, you would have given it all for the whistle, I suppose, if this is the way you trade."
"A party!" shrieked half a dozen voices. "Yes; and a tree, and a dance, and ice cream, and pink peppermints," Frank enumerated in one breath. There was a chorus of expostulation; then Ella's voice rose dominant. "Frank Bertram, what on earth do you mean?" she demanded. "Who is having all this?" "Father and Mother," returned Frank, his lips twitching a little.
"Now, I think, Billy, we might just as well drink up this little bit of lemonade, and eat up those peanuts," said the tired little merchant. "All the peppermints are gone, and it's most supper-time." Billy was nothing loth, and together they soon cleared the board. "Well, my little peanut woman, how went the day with you?" asked Auntie Jean, at supper.
"I mean the parcel the gentleman left the clergyman gentleman." "For goodness' sake," said Valentin, leaning forward with his first real confession of eagerness, "for Heaven's sake tell us what happened exactly." "Well," said the woman a little doubtfully, "the clergymen came in about half an hour ago and bought some peppermints and talked a bit, and then went off towards the Heath.
Then there would be a parley, which would end in the Rabbi capitulating and rewarding the children with peppermints, whereupon they would see him fairly off again and go on their way often looking back to see that he was safe, and somehow loving him all the more for his strange ways.
Cordelia Running Bird passed some peppermints to the children, which awoke a burst of gratitude. "We little girls shall always choose Susie in the games," said one. "Yes," exclaimed another, "Hannah Straight Tree and the dormitory girls have told us not to, but we shall." "Ee! Talk lower so the teacher will not hear you," said Cordelia, with a sudden flutter of the breath.
If the old stomachs had rebelled a little at the pink peppermints and ice cream, and if the old feet had charged toll for their unaccustomed activity of the night before, neither Samuel nor Lydia Ann would acknowledge it. "Well, we had it that tree!" chuckled Samuel, as he somewhat stiffly thrust himself into his clothes. "We did, Samuel, we did," quavered Lydia Ann joyfully, "an' wa'n't it nice?
Beyond sat a pair of humble lovers, artlessly holding each other by the hand, a somber spinster eating peppermints out of a paper bag, and an old gentleman taking his preparatory nap behind a yellow bandanna. On her right, her only neighbor was a studious looking lad absorbed in a newspaper.
The carriage was crowded, chiefly with Germans. Every window was closed, every ventilator shut. The hot air quivered round our feet. Seventeen men and four women were smoking, two children were sucking peppermints, and an old married couple were eating their lunch, consisting chiefly of garlic. At a junction, the door was thrown open.
Weston to consult him concerning her presentation at court the following spring, he let Andy Black arrange his tie, and permitted Elise Weston to cut the leaves of his magazine. He graciously submitted to endless inquiries concerning his hourly progress, and even went so far as to accept two cream peppermints from the old missionary, who had acquired a new box.
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