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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Yer takin' awful chances, miss just awful," warned the neighbor, edging backward toward her house with the air of having completed her duty. "If y' take my advice you'll leave the kid there 'til some'un comes. They'll likely take her t' the poor-house!" And with this cheerful assumption she slammed her door. "There! There! Robin'll take you home.
Within, the most startling change seemed the laughing voices that floated out to him from the library. Harkness took his coat and hat and bag a little excitedly and with repeated nods toward the library. "Miss Robin'll be mighty glad to see you, I'm sure; but she has a lydy guest for dinner." "The man actually acts as though I had no right to come unannounced," thought Cornelius Allendyce.
Don't cry," begged Robin, kneeling in the path and encircling poor little Susy in her arms. "We'll go back to the big house and Robin'll make you nice and warm." "I want Granny!" wailed the child, feeling her miserable little world rocking about her. Robin straightened and looked at the house. Granny was dead, the neighbor had said; nothing more could be done for her.
"Nev' mind; Robin'll put Big Brother to bed all ze nights when he's a man." And Big Brother kissed the sweet mouth and was comforted. During the summer Mr. Dearborn drove to town with fresh marketing every morning, starting early in order to get home by noon. Saturdays he took Steven with him, for that was the day he supplied his butter customers.
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