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Updated: June 10, 2025
If it isn't a Sarles, it's a Sniffen; and with Brundages, Platts, and Jays, the Sniffens date back to when the acres of the first Charles Ferris ran from the Boston post road to the coach road to Albany, and when the first Gouverneur Morris stood on one of his hills and saw the Indian canoes in the Hudson and in the Sound and rejoiced that all the land between belonged to him.
You hold the controlling vote, so be careful!" Mrs. Tenney laughed uncertainly. "It is a hard question, Mrs. Dick. I can hardly imagine a worse hell than having to live with such a man as you picture him, and yet " "I know! It's three against two! Good-bye, June Holiday Home, with your steam heat and Miss Sniffen! We must adjourn there's Mrs. Grace and Mrs. Winslow Teed!"
I could see that Miss Twining was all wrought up and as nervous as could be as who wouldn't have been!" "Oh!" gasped Polly. "It's just awful! Did she whip her?" Mrs. Albright shook her head and went on. "Miss Twining said that Amelia Sniffen used to go round in society with her youngest brother, Walter, and that she was dead in love with him.
Why, I 'most forgot already what's comin'! And I'm going to keep thinking of it hard, so's I won't worry! The idea of your marryin' the president! I do' know's I wonder you weren't scared o' Miss Sniffen! And to think how I jollied you only this morning about him! Why, I never thought of such a thing!" "Of course not! But it didn't trouble me." "It didn't really?" "No, I quite enjoyed it!"
"I guess lying wouldn't trouble her any," put in Miss Crilly. "Dear Miss Twining!" murmured Polly plaintively. "She is a sweet little woman," Miss Crilly sighed. "How is she this morning?" asked Polly. "I hardly know what to tell you," hesitated Mrs. Albright. "I think if Miss Sniffen would keep away she'd be better. Still, when she got up and tried to dress, she fainted again.
She put on her softest slippers and crept carefully down the stairs. All was dark. Not a sound came to her keen ears. She crossed the hall and reached the heavy front door. Cautiously she passed her hand from lock to lock something squeaked! She frowned, and hastily slid the last bolt A light flared behind her! "What are you doing? Miss Sterling!" Miss Sniffen came quickly towards her.
"I wonder why they keep Miss Sniffen," Polly said. "Probably she is agreeable to the trustees, and nobody calls their attention to anything wrong." "Yes, I've seen her when some of the officers came. She is as smiley as a goose! I hate her smile; it looks as if she didn't mean it." "She is evidently not the woman for the place. I am sorry." The Doctor glanced at his watch and rose abruptly.
I'm ashamed of you!" "Oh, Miss Sniffen!" protested Polly, "you have to lie down to take these exercises! The book says so!" You must be in your second childhood! Now march to your rooms, every one of you!" She waved her hand peremptorily toward the doorway, and the culprits filed meekly past her all but Miss Castlevaine.
Part of the tale was hurriedly retold. "Doctor may come on the 11.55 train; if not, he can't get here before one o'clock." "And Dr. Vera is watching with Dorothy!" cried Polly. "So I told her," said Mrs. Dudley. "Dorothy is a very sick child; he cannot leave her. I would go over if I thought I could do any good." "I'm afraid Miss Sniffen wouldn't let us in." returned Miss Sterling.
Polly watched her for a moment and then walked slowly down the stairs. The superintendent waited at the foot, her face flushed and stern. "You have made trouble enough round here," she said bitingly. "Now I think we'll stop it!" "Why, Miss Sniffen, what have I done?" "You're putting foolish notions into the heads of these old women petting and pampering them in the way you do!
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