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Lucinda is thinking about their big new palace on Grand Avenue, and she regards everyone outside her set as a burglar trying to break in. And then there's Bertie Stebbins, who's thinking about a new style of collar he saw advertised to-day, and how it would look on him, and what impression it would make on his newest girl." It was Mary who spoke now: "I know that little toad.
Stebbins gasped, "Oh, my God!" and put her hands over her face; and Lucinda exclaimed, in outraged irritation, "Mamma!" Carpenter looked at me, puzzled, and asked, "What is the matter?" The accident had happened in an ill-chosen neighborhood: one of those crowded slum quarters, swarming with Mexicans and Italians and other foreigners.
"Good-morning, Mrs. Stebbins," she called out, with the prettiest possible cheer, to a woman in an orange cotton skirt as she passed on the road. "It seems to me sometimes," she said to Rupert, "as if I belonged to a family that was scattered over miles and lived in scores of houses. They all used to tell Uncle Tom what would disagree with me when I was cutting my teeth."
Stebbins had turned pale as a sheet; and I could see his thin lips quivering with excitement. It was less fear than some other passion that was playing upon his features; and too easily could I conjecture the current of thought that was running through his brain.
She died on the way out, an' war berryed som'rs on the paraireys. I wish I knew whar I'd go to see her grave." "Ha! ha! ha! Whose story is this?" My companion looked at me in amazement. The laugh, at such a time, must have sounded strange to his ears. "The Injun heerd it from Lil," replied Wingrove, still puzzled at my behaviour. "Stebbins had told it to Holt, an' to her likeways.
"Ain't she stingy with her old ring?" said Sarah Allen to Rosy Stebbins. "Maybe it ain't real gold," whispered Rosy; but Comfort heard her. "'Tis, too," said she, stoutly. "It's brass; I can tell by the color," teased one of the big boys. "'Fore I'd wear a brass ring if I was a girl!" "It ain't brass," almost sobbed Comfort. Miss Tabitha Hanks arose slowly and came over to the stove.
Then there was Thaddeus Stevens, who was one of the very few men capable of driving his party associates a character as unique as, and far stronger than, John Randolph; General Robert C. Schenck, fresh from the army, but a veteran in Congress, one of the ablest of practical statesmen; ex-Governor Boutwell, of Massachusetts; ex-Governor Fenton, of New York, a very influential member, especially on financial questions; Henry Winter Davis, the brilliant orator, of Maryland; William B. Allison, since one of the soundest and most useful of Iowa's Senators; Henry L. Dawes, who fairly earned his promotion to the Senate, but who accomplished so much in the House that his best friends regret the transfer; John A. Bingham, one of the most famous speakers of his time; James E. English, of Connecticut, who did valiant and patriotic service as a War Democrat; George H. Pendleton, now Senator from Ohio, and a most accomplished statesman, even in his early service in the House; Henry G. Stebbins, who was to make a speech sustaining Mr.
"Mrs. Jenks, who has three little children to support. Her husband was killed in that blast some years ago, and she never recovered a cent from the mining company, for they burst like a bubble," returned Paul. "By gum! wot d'ye know about that, now? I reckons as how she lives in one o' my own cottages, which the real estate man, Stebbins, takes keer of fur me.
They fumbled their way down to the lower back door, but could not get it open. It was locked! "We left the key in the door outside," said Dick, in a low whisper. "You ninnies!" exclaimed Sam, "somebody saw you and has locked us in." "Some of the boys, to plague us," said John Stebbins. "Mighty great secrecy, now," said Sam, "if half the boys in town know we are here.
To be sure grandpa and grandma Stebbins were old, and it was long since there had been children in the house, but they had enough and to spare in crib and pantry, and they had lived sufficiently long in this world to accept the inevitable without a murmur.
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