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"Cousin Phoebe's 'sofy, beloved Nephew Jason's unsalable dishes, and Brother Henry's pickle-caster still extant?" "Yes, yes," groaned Shelby. "And little Ann Eliza's sheets and pillow-slips, I dare say. It's astonishing how they endure." "It's astonishing how I endure." "You must at any rate, till the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
"Oh, cat's foot!" he exclaimed one day, after hunting everywhere for his Sunday tie, and at length finding it in his bureau drawer. "I can't git used to this everlastin' spruced-up bus'ness. Way it used to be, this necktie was likely to be 'most anywheres 'round, and if I looked out in the kitchen or under the sofy, I was jest as likely to find it. But now everything's got a place and is in it."
There's no great harm done, anyway. What I was going to say was this: Jim here" she took his hand in both of hers as she spoke "used to know me, if you didn't, and spent a heap of money upon me. I reckon he spent all he had. And one day it's six years ago this winter Jim came into my back room, sat down on my sofy, like as you see him in that chair, and never moved again without help.
It was different with Fergus. There had been offences certainly; Aunt Jane had routed him out of preparing his lessons in Mrs. Mount's room, where he diversified them with teaching the Sofy to beg, and inventing new modes of tying down jam pots.
So the next day there was a nobleman missing at the "Old Home House," and all we had to remember him by was a trunk full of bricks. And Peter T. Brown and the "queen" was roosting in the Lover's Nest; and the new Italian was busy in the barber shop. He could shave, too. He shaved me without a pull, and my face ain't no plush sofy, neither.
Maggie had been kind to Tildy once or twice, and had even given the general a cast-off dress of her own. Maggie was plain, and yet people liked her and listened to her words. "Oh miss," said Tildy when she opened the front door, "it's me that's glad to see you! Your ma is upstairs; she's took with a headache, but you'll find her lyin' down on the sofy in the drawin'-room."
Meantime Miss Mohun caught up Kunz, held up her finger to him, stopped his barks; and then, in spite of the 'Oh, don'ts, and even the tears of Valetta, the two were held up -black nose to pink nose, with a resolute 'Now, you are to behave well to each other, from Aunt Jane. Kunz sniffed, the Sofy hissed; but her claws were captive.
Some of Aunt Jane's many occupations on Saturday consisted in arranging with the two heads of their respective schools, and likewise for the mathematical class Gillian was to join at the High School two mornings in the week, and for her lessons on the organ, which were to be at St. Andrew's Church. Somehow Gillian felt as if she were as entirely in her aunt's hands as Kunz and the Sofy had been!
I got fifty dollars more'n I expected when I sold out the mill, an' I laid it out for extras for mother an' me; bought her a sofy an' stuffed rockin'-chair, a new set of dishes, an' some teaspoons, an' some strainers for the windows agin fly-time.
'Oh yes! said Miss Mohun, running upstairs, and presently coming back with a school-bag and a crackling waterproof cloak, but pausing as she saw Gillian at the window, nursing the Sofy, and gazing at the gray cloud over the gray sea. 'You are not at a loss for something to do, she said, 'you said you meant to write to your mother.
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