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Updated: June 17, 2025
Will stop over from Colonial Express and lunch Happy Family. Explicitly request no outsider present. Can't have appearance of false position. Shall take her directly out of New York, after luncheon. Cyrus Talbert." Torn between filial duty and sisterly affection, I sat twirling this telegram between my troubled fingers.
I find that Billy, when Alice lets him alone, is a boy who sees with his own eyes. He told me yesterday that I was handsomer in my pink dress than any girl in his school. "Why, Billy Talbert!" I said, "talking that way to your old aunt!" "I suppose you ARE awful old," said Billy, bless him! "but you are enough-sight prettier than a girl. I hate girls.
Just say that they were fellow-students I should like that to be known, so that people sha'n't think I don't like to have it known and that he's looking forward to a professorship in the same college How queer it all seems!" "Very well, then, I'll announce it in our next. There's time to send me word if Mrs. Talbert has any suggestions." "All right. But she won't have any. Well, good-evening."
"As yet the lady is not your Aunt Elizabeth, and the way things look now I have my doubts if she ever is your Aunt Elizabeth." "Miss Talbert, then," said Goward, with a heart-rending sigh.
Talbert looked relieved. "Oh, then you will have Dr. Denbigh. He puts your rule the other way, and gets the best patient he can, no matter whether he is a homoeopath or an allopath. We have him, in all our branches; he is the best doctor in Eastridge, and he is the best man. I want you to know him, and you can't know a doctor the way you ought to, unless he's your family physician."
It was almost as bad as the time I wore that sweet little yellow Empire gown. I noticed that everybody seemed solemn and queer, but I never dreamed that I was the cause until my mother-in-law came to me afterward, blushing, and told me that Mr. Talbert never allowed any of the family to wear Mother Hubbards around the house. MOTHER HUBBARDS! I could have moaned.
"I'm not afeared of rain," said Higgins. "What are you goin' over there this time o' night for?" asked the other. "You ain't got much of a load." "I'm I'm takin' some meat over to Mr. Talbert." "Hams?" "No; jest bacon," answered Scott, and his two hearers in the wagon-bed laughed silently. "Not many people out a night like this," volunteered the deputy. "Nope."
Our silence had passed the point of discomfort, and was fast reaching that of anguish, when the boy lifted his head manfully, dipped one of "The Happy Family's" new pens into a stately ink-bottle, and rapidly filled in the missing address upon the unfortunate letter. He handed it to me without a word. My eyes blurred when I read: "Personal. Miss Peggy Talbert, Eastridge.
In all his family relations he was of the exemplary perfection which most other men attain only on their tombstones, and I had found him the best of neighbors. There were some shadows of diffidence between the ladies of our families, mainly on the part of my wife, but none between Talbert and me.
My wife pronounced her the ideal mother of a family, and just what the wife of such a man as Cyrus Talbert ought to be, but no doubt because Mrs. Talbert's characteristics were not so salient as her mother's, my wife was less definitely descriptive of her. From time to time, it seemed that there was a sister of Mr.
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