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Both drinking, and the children left anyhow, and everything going to rack and ruin." "I should like to see the baby again and little Susy," said Dick, "but I could never go back." "I should think not! Why, you've nearly doubled since you've had decent living and no nagging." Next day, with Mr. Dainton's kind help, Paddy got work.
It was Ursula Gillow dear old Ursula, on her way to Scotland and she and Susy fell on each other's necks. It appeared that Ursula, detained till the next evening by a dress-maker's delay, was also out of a job and killing time, and the two were soon smiling at each other over the exquisite preliminaries of a luncheon which the head-waiter had authoritatively asked Mrs.
Peyton in the porch, welcoming him with that maternal smile which his childish longing had so often craved to share with Susy. Peyton would be there, too, Peyton, who had once pushed back his torn straw hat to look approvingly in his boyish eyes; and Peyton, perhaps, might be proud of him. Suddenly he started. A voice in his very ear! "Bah!
Clarence had not revealed to Susy the night before the real object of his journey, nor did Hooker evidently suspect it, yet when the former had mounted his horse, he hesitated for an instant, extending his hand. "If I should happen to be detained," he began with a half smile. But Jim was struggling with a yawn. "That's all right don't mind us," he said, stretching his arms.
"O, I ain't goin' to tell!" cried Prudy, beginning to tremble; "I didn't, did I? they won't 'low me to tell." Aunt Louise, passing through the kitchen, caught some of the last words, and rushed up stairs, two steps at a time. "O, Susy Parlin, you naughty, naughty child, what have you been into? Who spilled that ink?"
Before one of them a large tent was erected, and through the parted flaps could be seen a table actually spread with a white cloth. Was it a school feast, or was this their ordinary household arrangement? Clarence and Susy thought of their own dinners, usually laid on bare boards beneath the sky, or under the low hood of the wagon in rainy weather, and marveled.
Nick Lansing her name, Susy's own! and entering drawing-rooms with Nick in her wake, gaily welcomed by the very people who, a few months before, had welcomed Susy with the same warmth.
After some delay in hunting, she and Susy dressed the child in fresh clothes. Then Dotty consented to eat a little dinner, and go into her grandma Read's room, to sit on the lounge. "This little girl doesn't look well," said grandma Read, the first moment; "her cheeks are altogether too red. Where has thee been to-day, Alice?"
This afternoon, when the new game was broken up by the entrance of Annie, the children began the play of housekeeping, because Prudy could join in it. Susy found she enjoyed any amusement much more when it pleased the little invalid. "I will be the lady of the house," said Annie, promptly, "because I have rings on my fingers, and a coral necklace. My name is Mrs. Piper.
Susy looked at Strefford, conscious that under his words was the ache of the disappointment she had caused him; and yet conscious also that that very ache was not the overwhelming penetrating emotion he perhaps wished it to be, but a pang on a par with a dozen others; and that even while he felt it he foresaw the day when he should cease to feel it.
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