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But his notebook was safe under lock and key, and the pigs in New York, and the chap the rats eat in jail, and the rough man from Kentucky, and the entire raft of galls emprisoned in one night, and the spittin' boxes and all that stuff, warn't trusted to memory, it was noted down, and printed. "But it tante no matter.
I must show you our photographs of Tante, Mr. Jardine. We have volumes and volumes, and boxes and boxes of them. They are far more like her, I think, many of them, than the portrait. Some of them too dear and quaint when she was quite tiny." Tea was over and Karen, rising, looked towards the shelves where, evidently, the volumes and boxes were kept.
But I feel sure that she will say this happiness is for me." "She?" Gregory repeated. For a moment he imagined that she meant some superstition connected with her mother. Karen, slipping the ribbon over her head, had returned the locket to its place. "Yes; Tante," she said, still with the locket in her hand. "Tante?" Gregory repeated. At his tone, its change, she lifted startled eyes to his.
"It certainly is unusual to " began the frau. "Tante," cried Yolanda, flushing angrily and stamping her foot. Tante was silent. "Your words night before last brought marvellous comfort to us, Fräulein," said Max. "Where were you, and how " "My words? Night before last?" asked Yolanda, in open-eyed wonder, "I have not seen you since three weeks ago."
I know little concerning the ways of a girl's heart, but, ignorant as I am, I could see Mother, I never saw a girl so infatuated with a man as our Yolanda is with this Sir Max this stranger." "There, tante," cried Yolanda, turning triumphantly to Frau Kate, "you hear what uncle says. Now you see the great reason for having him here this Sir Max and his friend.
Tante used to shake her head and Daddy would say, 'Leave her alone she knows more than we do. I don't know what he meant, but some day I shall study hard and try to be a great musician. Daddy said-I should-only he said I must wait until my body grew as strong as my spirit." "Keineth, my dear, do you know what a precious trust has been given you?
Non, non, I don't mak' no mo'. Po' Tante Marie get too ol'. Didele? She's one lil' gal I 'dopt. I see her one day in de strit. He walk so; hit col' she shiver, an' I say, 'Where you gone, lil' gal? and he can' tell. He jes' crip close to me, an' cry so! Den I tak' her home wid me, and she say he's name Didele. You see dey wa'nt nobody dere.
"I don't mean to say country women ain't handsum here, 'cause they be. There is no sun here; and how in natur' can it be otherways than that they have good complexions. But it tante safe to be caged with them in a house out o' town.
Karen saw that his resistance melted and the sternness fell from her look. "But Gregory," she said, her voice a little trembling, "Tante did not say that. Please don't make mistakes. It is so dreadful to misunderstand; nothing frightens me so much. I say it; that our best isn't good enough, and I am thinking of Tante; only of Tante; but she too sweetly and mistakenly was thinking of me.
And at that the small German person in her arms screwed her mouth into a fascinating bunch, and then unscrewed it and, having made these preparations said, "Tante Fanny. Shecago. Tante Fanny." "Why, Mizzi Brandeis, you darling! Teddy, did you hear that! She said `Tante Fanny' and `Chicago' just as plainly!" "Did I hear it? Have I heard anything else for weeks?"
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