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She had gone through a great deal of trouble since the arrival of her niece, and often, as she expressed it, did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels; but she was fond of Stephanotie, who, notwithstanding her wild ways, was very affectionate and very taking. And now, when she saw Molly and Nora appearing, she herself entered the hall and opened the door for them.
"How do you say she was dressed, Maria?" "Pink, the color of a rose, and that ravishing with lace. I never see'd such a dress," said Maria. "She's the most beautiful young lady and the queerest I ever set eyes on." Stephanotie and her aunt were having a battle upstairs, and in the end the elder lady won. Stephanotie was obliged to take off the unsuitable dress and put on the gray cashmere.
"Oh, lor'! and it's lovely!" said Maria, sotto voce, as she was leaving the room. "What an unpleasant smell of peppermint!" said Miss Truefitt, sniffing at that moment. "You know, Stephanotie, how I have begged of you not to eat those unpleasant sweets in the dining room." "I didn't," said Stephanotie; "it was only Maria."
Hartrick was already beginning to understand his Irish relatives; and as to Stephanotie, she sprang from the carriage, rushed up the steps, and thrust a huge box of bon-bons into Squire O'Shanaghgan's face. "I am an American girl," she said; "but I guess that, whether one is Irish or American, one likes a right-down good sweetheart.
Oh, how delicious the inside did look! rows upon rows of every imaginable sweet cream-colored sweets, rose-colored, green, white; plums, apples, pears, figs, chocolates; every sort that the heart of girl could desire lay before them in rows on rows. "They are, every one of them, for Mrs. Hartrick," said Stephanotie, "and you mustn't touch them.
"Well, you certainly are," said Molly. "But what what did you do to it?" "To my locks, do you mean?" "Yes. They do stick out so funnily. I know mother was shocked; she likes our heads to be perfectly smooth. "Like the Armitages', for instance," said Stephanotie. "Well, yes; something like theirs. They are pretty girls, are they not?" "Yes," said Stephanotie; "but don't they give you the quivers?
Have a bon-bon, Squire O'Shanaghgan, for I guess that you are the man to enjoy it." "Why then, my girl, I'd like one very much," said the Squire; "but don't bother me for a bit, for I have to speak to my English relatives." "Oh, come along in, Stephanotie, do," said Molly. "I see that you are just as eccentric and as great a darling as ever."
"Can I ever forget," said Nora, "that but for Stephanotie lending us that money I should not have been able to run away to Ireland, and my dear, dearest father might not now have been alive?" But the sound of wheels was at last heard without. "Come, girleens, and let's give them a proper Irish welcome," said the Squire, standing on the steps of the old house.
"Well, I cannot say you look very happy," said Molly, "although you are such a favorite at the school. If I was not very fond of you myself I should be jealous. If I had a friend whom I really worshiped, before you appeared on the scene, it was Stephanotie Miller, the American girl." "Oh, isn't she charming?" said Nora. "She makes me laugh. I am sure she has Irish blood in her."
"I want to have this robe ironed and made as presentable as possible," said Stephanotie; "see you have it all done and put in my wardrobe ready for wear tonight. I guess it will fetch 'em," she added, and then she rushed like a whirlwind into the presence of Miss Truefitt. "Auntie," she said, "would you like to see me done up in style?"
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