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Updated: June 11, 2025
I aimed to make you happy when I brought you out to Millings. I kind of wanted to work myself into your Poppa's place, kind of meant to make it up to you some way. I aimed to give you a home. 'Home, sweet home, there's no place like home' that was my motto. And here you are, all pale around the gills and tears all over your face and, say, there's a regular pool there on your pillow.
"In that case," said momma, sitting up and ascertaining the condition of her hair, "you would like me to be with you, love." Now, if momma doesn't like poppa's clothes, she always gives them away without telling him.
Lottie returned from another direction with Boyne, and Ellen said, "Poppa's gone to look for you." "Has he?" asked Lottie, dropping decisively into her chair. "Well, there's one thing; I won't call him poppa any more." "What will you call him?" Boyne demanded, demurely. "I'll call him father, it you want to know; and I'm going to call momma, mother.
"That ain't wot we're goin' for," she said simply. "Poppa's goin' to take me wher' momma is. I'm goin' to momma, an' she's ever so far away. Pop told me. Jamie's goin' to stay with him, an' I'm goin' to stay with momma, an' an' I want Jamie to come too." Tears suddenly crowded her eyes, and slowly rolled down her sunburned cheeks. Just for a moment neither man spoke.
"I can't stay in Millings," Dickie said, "and work in Poppa's hotel and watch this, Sheila unless, some way, I can help you." "Then you'd better go," she said lifelessly, "because I can't see what else there is for me to do. Oh, I shan't go on with it for very long, of course " He came an eager half-step nearer.
Besides, in the course of the morning the Senator acknowledged that he got more tunnels than he had any idea he had paid for. They came with a precipitancy that interfered immensely with any connected idea of the scenery, though momma, in my interest, did her best to form one. "Don't miss that jagged line of snows just beyond the back of poppa's head, dear one.
"And when's that?" he inquired, driving at his point deliberately. "When momma says." Vada was fastening and unfastening the man's dirty waistcoat with great interest. "An' when does your momma say it?" Sunny persisted. "When poppa's done the chores." "Ah!" He felt himself on the wrong tack, and cast about for a fresh line of argument. "Guess you kiddies like bed some," he hazarded doubtfully.
And as for you, dear, you will go on sighing for the moon; and when you find the moon is unattainable, you will not dream of seeking solace in more earthly lights not even poppa's best sperm," she added, with a wistful little smile, for Pauline's fun sparkled in solitude as freely as in company, and as often at her own expense as at that of other people, and her brave American spirit would not admit, even to herself, a serious hurt.
"She said it seemed so extraordinary quite providential meeting relatives abroad in this way," momma continued, "and she thought we ought to follow it up." "Are we going to?" I inquired. "My goodness gracious no, love! There are some things my nerves cannot stand the strain of, and one of them is your poppa's Aunt Caroline. The Senator smoothed it over.
I will not repeat poppa's sentiments. On the hotel doorstep next morning waited Alessandro Bebbini. He waited for us an hour and a half, because momma had some re-packing to do and we were going on next day. Nobody had asked him to wait, but he had a carriage ready and the look of having been ordered three months previously.
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