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Updated: June 17, 2025
Time was when we had paid no attention to Aunt Susanna's views on these points; but ever since she had, on one incautious day when she was in high good humor, dropped a pale, anemic little hint that she might send Margaret to college if she were a good girl we had been bending all our energies towards securing Aunt Susanna's approval.
This coincided with the Cyclopedia and suggested the first lesson she should give. But she had herself "climbed" to this height for another matter besides instruction. To descend with a quantity of fresh eggs for Susanna's depleted larder would be to bring one ray of sunshine into that darkened house.
After luncheon he tramped about the park, counting the slow minutes, kissing her hands, looking into her eyes, racking his brain with speculations as to what she might have to tell him, hoping, fearing, and counting the long slow minutes. And his tug at Susanna's doorbell coincided with the very first stroke of three from her billiard-room clock.
I saw Susanna's face while she danced with Martinez, as white as that of a strikingly beautiful corpse, and the green wreath with the small white flowers hung in her hair like wet sea-grass. It seemed as if water were streaming down her. The blood rushed to my heart; the room was now dark, amid sparks from thousands of lights, going round before my eyes with the dancing pair.
The graver underglow in Susanna's eyes eclipsed, for an instant, their dancing surface lights. "They were a race of poets," she said regretfully, "before they learned how to read and write. But now, with the introduction of popular education," she shook her head, "the poetry is dying out." "Ah," said Anthony, with a meaning flourish of his stick, "there it is.
He delivered these sentiments with a good deal of warmth. Susanna's eyes brightened. I am not sure there was n't a quick little flash of raillery in their brightness. "I would seem," she mused, "to have touched by accident upon a subject that is near your heart." Anthony threw up a deploring hand. "There!" he grieved.
If she divided the remainder with Mrs Tom, keeping about three hundred and fifty pounds a-year for herself and Susanna, she would, she thought, keep her promise well, and yet retain enough for her own comfort and Susanna's education.
She had thought it a big jump then and had not considered how she was to return, but now the full difficulty of the situation presented itself, and her heart sank. "Oh, Punchy, dearest! I guess this is a good deal like Susanna's saying, 'out of the frying-pan into the fire. Off the hay-mow into the bay. I don't see why folks build barns such ways.
And yet the mother did her own work, thus eliminating the servant-girl problem, and found time to preach better sermons to larger congregations than did her husband. Four of Susanna's children became famous John, Charles, Samuel and Martha.
It could be done, of course, but it meant a pretty full day! Susanna's mind reverted uneasily to the consideration that she had already bungled matters. Oh, well, if she was late, she was late, that was all; and if Jim was furious, why, Jim would simply have to be furious! And she began her explanations again
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