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Aunt Euphemia raised her eyebrows and her lorgnette together. "I do not understand you, I fear. What the Tapps are by blood, I do not know. But they are not in society at all not at all!" "Not in society?" repeated Louise, puzzled indeed. "Scarcely. Of course, as Mrs. Perriton says, the way the cottagers are situated here at The Beaches, the Tapps must be treated with a certain friendliness.
"He may have lost all his interest in me, too. He went away without bidding me good-bye." "Well, I am glad of that!" sighed Aunt Euphemia. "I feared it was different. Indeed, I heard something said Oh, well, people will gossip so! Never mind. But these Tapps are so pushing." "I think Mrs. Tapp is a very pleasant woman; and the girls are quite nice," Louise said demurely.
"'Cause it's belonged to the Tapps since away back, or, so Cap'n Joab says. That sand heap never was wuth a punched nickel a ton till these city folks began to build along The Beaches." Louise, in her own mind, immediately constructed another theory about Lawford Tapp, "the fisherman's son."
Lynn Taps hid the baby, rewrapped, under his own blanket, and hurried down the mountain, while four men picked up Codago and followed. Lynn Taps scratched on the rawhide door; the doctor opened it. Lynn Tapps unrolled the bundle, and its occupant again raised its voice.
"I mean it," said the girl, nodding with pursed lips. "You are behaving in a most selfish way," the Lady from Poughkeepsie declared. "Everybody here has remarked how you have neglected me for those Tapps. They have taken full advantage of your patronage to push themselves into the society of their betters." "Perhaps," sighed Louise. "But consider, auntie.
And you have been seen with him frequently. It is being remarked by the whole colony. Of course, you can mean nothing by this intimacy. It arises from your thoughtlessness, I presume. You must understand that he is not er Well, the Tapps are not of our set, Louise." "My goodness, no!" laughed the girl cheerfully. "The Tapps are real Cape Codders, I believe."
That quite impossible 'I. Tapp, as he advertises himself, owns all the Point and might easily make it very disagreeable for the rest of the colony if he so chose." She stopped because of the expression on her niece's countenance. "What do you mean?" Louise asked. "Who who are these Tapps?" "My dear child! Didn't you know? Was I blaming you for a fault of which you were not intentionally guilty?
Miss Louder tells me I can 'bant' whatever that is to take down my flesh, and mebbe you'll see me some day, Miss Lou, in a re'l ladylike part. An' I can always cry. Even Mr. Bane says I'm wuth my wages when it comes to the tearful parts." The Tapps were flitting to Boston, Mrs. Tapp and the girls sure of "getting in" with the proper set at last.
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