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Updated: June 20, 2025
I hope I never will go one step out of Byrdsville as long as I live, though Roxanne has planned trips to every corner of the world for us as soon as the Idol has finished this next invention. The Byrds have to stay in the cottage until Father can build another house for us to move into. Of course they will go back to Byrd Mansion and reign in it as they have always done.
"That's what I tell Phyllis, Douglass she's more valuable than the loss of any kind of a big fortune, that we really don't need at all to make us happy, while we do need her." Roxanne was laughing and crying and hugging me so that she got herself mixed in her words in a perfectly beautiful and loving way.
Of course, I never let Lovey or Uncle Pomp get really hungry, but Douglass and I do that is " Roxanne stopped, for the pain would come out on my face. "Oh, Phyllis, not really hungry," she said mercifully, "but just tired of corn-bread and molasses. Douglass kisses me and I kiss him good-by in the morning and we pretend it is butter on his bread, like the poet said.
"Yes, I do," I answered quickly, for I can't even write how precious to me is the way Lovelace Peyton treats me with confidence. He comes to me now just as he goes to Roxanne for things he wants, strings or sympathy, and I keep a supply of both on hand for him. And when he brings dreadful bugs and things I never let my heart quake that is, so he will notice it.
We tore him and his clothes both a great deal, but at last we landed him. Then Roxanne put him to bed to punish him and to mend his dress at the same time. That was when she told me the great secret that it is hurting me to keep, because it has got my Father mixed up in it in a sort of conspiracy like you read about in books. I don't dare write it even to you, leather Louise.
I was scared and so was Roxanne as we hugged each other as women always do from fright. Then, without a word, Father walked right up under the portrait and took the Idol by both shoulders and gave him one good shake that tottered us all. "You young idiot, you! You young idiot!" he said in a tone of such affection that it was unbelievable to my ears.
You understand that it is for the cause, and I don't have to be afraid that you will hurt hurt my feelings." I never thought it would be possible for a girl to look at me like Roxanne Byrd looked at me across the pile of ragged little aprons and old dresses. I thank God for it! "Well," I said, "for that dress I want to trade you this blue gingham I have got on to make the aprons out of.
Roxanne had gathered from Jeffrey that Harry's wife was not as attractive as Harry Jeffrey had met her once and considered her "shallow." But Harry had been married nearly two years and was apparently happy, so Jeffrey guessed that she was probably all right. "I'm making biscuits," chattered Roxanne gravely. "Can you wife make biscuits? The cook is showing me how.
Sam is not so big and strong as the other boys and consequently has the greatest regard for the strength that he hasn't got. I could only say that I didn't know what I had lifted Roxanne up to catch the bottle with except prayers.
As Roxanne asked the question she was trembling all over, but not in the deadly cold way I was, I felt sure. She couldn't have stood it and lived. "Some one has been in the shed, taken samples of all my material, including the steel shavings that came from the last melting, and my notebook is gone. The process is stolen, Roxy, and all the sacrifices gone for nothing.
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