Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 27, 2025
The best seats in the great tented arena were none too good for them. Stefana laboriously shut up Elly Precious' go-cart, and Miss Theodosia lifted Elly Precious in her arms. In the procession they sought those best-of-all seats. What followed, even Evangeline gazed upon in silence; there were no words in Evangeline's dictionary for what followed.
Elihu Launcelot, at this juncture, toppled over against the little flat breast of his nurse, asleep or in a swoon; Miss Theodosia had her fears. There seemed sufficient swooning cause. "Stefana," she prompted again, her interest advancing at a rapid pace, "and mothers " "Stefana's our oldest. She's goin' to run us while Mother's away. She's got a job before her!
Miss Theodosia caught up her glasses and brought the little pair into the near field of her vision; she saw both anxious young faces. The face of Stefana was strained and careworn. Miss Theodosia was thirty-six years old, and all of the years had been comfortable, carefree ones.
They've got the longest stems you ever saw! Stefana can't get over their stems; she said they most made her cry." For very breath Evangeline stopped. Over the little uneasy head of Elly Precious shone Miss Theodosia's eyes. Miss Theodosia was softly thrilled. The stems appealed, too, to her; she loved them long long. "Roses, you say?" Oh, Evangeline! Birthday roses for Stefana! What color?"
Ah! may some of the great ones of to-morrow spring from him and that adorable little Princess Celia, whom my niece Stefana, a sensible woman at bottom, brought to see me the other day. If you had seen that child fling her arms about me, call me endearing names, and tell me that I should be godfather to her first son, so that he might bear my name and once again save Italy!
Suddenly, without warning, Evangeline went off into a series of shrill shrieks. "Stop me! Stop me! Don't l-let Stefana hear me! Don't l-let me laugh!" This was an urgent case fits or something, surely! Miss Theodosia's eyes sought the horizon for a reformed doctor. In lack of one, she shook Evangeline. "Stop at once! Make yourself stop; count ten!" "One! Two-o!
I've put a corset steel o' Mother's in an' kind of tied 'em to it. I hope you don't see any corset steel." "No." Miss Theodosia looked not at the centerpiece of roses but at the cake, the tremulous jelly, the platter, anywhere else. "No, I don't see any, dear." "It's perfectly lovely, isn't it? Mercy gracious oh, mercy gracious! It'll dazzle Stefana. An' most every speck you did, Miss Theodosia.
I came over because he's come for his shirt. He says he's goin' to begin a new story, an' he always has to have a clean shirt on. An' his hair cut he's got it cut. I guess that bosom'll match his hair all right! It's perfectly lovely!" "What did you do with Elly Precious, Evangeline Flagg!" demanded Stefana. "That's it that's why I got to hurry back.
There wasn't a single streak left this mornin'. We're goin' to keep your money in Mother's weddin' sugar-bowl, an' when she comes back, we're goin' to ask her if she don't want some sugar!" All day Stefana toiled and retoiled. It was night when she sent one of the children to Miss Theodosia with her day's work. The one who came was Carruthers, chatty and deaf.
"You hear, Stefana," said Orlando; "tell your husband that the only advice I have to give him is to return to his clerkship at the post-office, where perhaps he may be of use." What particularly filled the old soldier with indignation and despair was that such a man, a Sacco, should have fallen like a bandit on Rome on that Rome whose conquest had cost so many noble efforts.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking