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When she come up the Wilderness Road from Virginia in the Revolution she was already a young woman. She's knowed Dan'l Boone and Simon Kenton an' all them gran' old fellers. A tremenjous interestin' old lady is my Aunt Suse, colonel." "I've no doubt of it, Mr. Jarvis." said Colonel Kenton, "but I don't think I can wait a second longer for a cup of that coffee of yours.
"You know, they didn't know he was Montague Fitzmaurice, the great Shakespearean actor. Pa often takes such jobs. He ain't lazy like Aunt Suse says. Why, once he took a job as a ballyhoo at a show on the Bowery in Coney Island. But his voice ain't never been what it was since." "Do you expect him to return here for you?"
"Just because you're own cousin to Nate don't put all the law an' the gospel on your side, Suse Timmins. I'll take good care of this girl." "And so will I, if Bella wants to live with me," said the doctor's wife. "Mirandy will be glad to have her." "And she'd be company for me," rejoined the other neighbor. "I haven't any children." "Bella must choose for herself," said Ruth kindly.
At length he drew the stem from his mouth, blew a ring of smoke upward and said in a tone of conviction: "It does beat the Dutch how things come about!" Harry looked questioningly at him. "I mean your arrivin' here, bein' who you are, an' your meetin' old Aunt Suse, bein' who she is, an' that cousin of yours, Dick Mason, didn't you say was his name, bein' who he is, goin' off to the North."
I guess you think a good deal of your father?" "Aunt Suse don't," said the girl ungraciously. "My mother's dead. And pa is resting this season. So I hafter stay here with Aunt Suse. I hate it!" "Your father is er what is his business?" Ruth asked. "He's one of the profession." "A doctor?" "Lands, no! He's a heavy." "A what?" "A heavy lead and a good one.
Our faithful negro servant, “Aunt Suse,” had been hung up in the barn in a vain endeavor to make her reveal the whereabouts of my mother’s sons and money; my dead father’s fortune had been stolen and scattered to the winds; but our farms were left, and had I been given an opportunity to till them in peace it would have saved four wasted lives.
Only with great difficulty, and after paying a large fine, did he obtain Stephen's pardon. At one time he was suspended by the Pope "pro bonis Ecclesise suse dispersis"; but the suspension was removed on condition that he restored the goods. When King Henry II. came to the throne, Nigel was made Baron of the Exchequer.
She begged to be allowed to wait until morning, so that she and her children and “Suse” would not be turned out in the snow, then some two or three feet deep, in the darkness, with the nearest neighbor many miles away. This they agreed to do on condition that she put the torch to her house at daybreak.
"Well, Miss Fielding, if he had sent it to Aunt Suse I'd never have seen a penny of it. And pa didn't know what you'd done for me and how you'd put me with Miz Perkins." "I suppose that is so," admitted the surprised Ruth. "But why did you come here?" "'Cause pa wrote he had an engagement here.
"That's right, Miss Fielding," sighed the actor's child. "I was. And Miz Perkins was always nice to me. Nothing at all like Aunt Suse Timmins. But, you see, they ain't like pa." "Did your father bring you here?" "No'm." "Nor send for you?" "Not exactly," confessed Bella. "Well!" "You see, he sent me money. Only on Tuesday. Forty dollars." "Forty dollars! And to a child like you?"
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