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Updated: June 12, 2025
If Ralph could be so cruel as to marry Dora, and put her at the head of everything, and if she were here at all, she would want to be at the head of everything, then she, Miriam, would take off the teaberry gown, and lock it up in the old trunk. "But can it be possible," she asked herself, as a tear or two began to show themselves in her eyes, "that Ralph could be so cruel as that?"
She knew that for herself; but hearing Ralph's footsteps outside, she had a longing to know what he would say on the subject, so, holding up her skirt to keep herself from tripping, she ran downstairs and called him into the big hall. "How do you like me in the teaberry gown?" she asked.
It was Judith Pacewalk's teaberry gown." "And who was Judith Pacewalk?" asked Dora; "and why was it teaberry? It is not teaberry color." "No," said Miss Panney; "the color had nothing to do with it, but I must say it has kept very well. Let me see," taking out her watch, "it is not yet eleven o'clock, and if you young people have time enough, I will tell you the story of that gown.
It's an insult to me an' the family, miss, that's what it is." And the irate woman rested her knuckles on her hips. Miriam's face turned a little pink. "I will inquire about that, Molly," she said, and her impression became a conviction. Toward the close of the afternoon, Miriam went up to her room, and spreading out on the bed the teaberry gown of Judith Pacewalk, she stood looking at it.
"That settled him," said the old lady, with a grim smile, as she lowered the muzzle of the gun, and gently let down the hammers. "Madam," said Lawrence, advancing toward her, "may I ask if that gun is loaded?" "I should say so," replied the old lady. "In each barrel are two thimblefuls of powder, and half-a-box of Windfall's Teaberry Tonic Pills, each one of them as big and as hard as a buckshot.
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