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Ann had finished dressing herself, and now she was pinning a heavy homespun blanket over her head, as if she were preparing to go out doors. "I'm going after the doctor for Thirsey," said Ann, her black eyes flashing with determination. "O will you, will you!" cried Mrs. Dorcas, catching at this new help. "Hush, Dorcas," said Grandma, sternly. "It's an awful storm out jist hear the wind blow!
Grandma asked if she had put the things in, and she said "Yes, ma'am," meekly. There was a bright red spot on each of her dark cheeks. When Mrs. Dorcas entered the kitchen, carrying Thirsey wrapped up in an old homespun blanket, she nearly dropped as her gaze fell on the fireplace and the hearth. There sat her bread and pies, in the most lamentable half-baked, sticky, doughy condition imaginable.
Ann had finished dressing herself, and now she was pinning a heavy homespun blanket over her head, as if she were preparing to go out doors. "I'm going after the doctor for Thirsey," said Ann, her black eyes flashing with determination. "Oh, will you, will you!" cried Mrs. Dorcas, catching at this new help. "Hush, Dorcas," said Grandma, sternly. "It's an awful storm out jist hear the wind blow!
Grandma sent Ann out into the kitchen to put the loaves in the oven and lo and behold! the oven was full. Ann stood staring for a minute, with a loaf of election cake in her hands; that and the bread would be ruined if they were not baked immediately, as they were raised enough. Mrs. Dorcas had taken Thirsey and stepped out somewhere, and there was no one in the kitchen.
Ann had finished dressing herself, and now she was pinning a heavy homespun blanket over her head, as if she were preparing to go out doors. "I'm going after the doctor for Thirsey," said Ann, her black eyes flashing with determination. "Oh, will you, will you!" cried Mrs. Dorcas, catching at this new help. "Hush, Dorcas," said Grandma, sternly. "It's an awful storm out jist hear the wind blow!
When she reached Captain Isaac Lovejoy's house, next to the meeting house in the North Precinct of Braintree, stumbling blindly into the warm, lighted kitchen, the captain and the doctor could hardly believe their senses. She told the doctor about Thirsey; then she almost fainted from cold and exhaustion. Good-wife Lovejoy laid her on the settee, and brewed her some hot herb tea.
When she reached Captain Isaac Lovejoy's house, next to the Meeting House in the North Precinct of Braintree, stumbling blindly into the warm, lighted kitchen, the captain and the doctor could hardly believe their senses. She told the doctor about Thirsey; then she almost fainted from cold and exhaustion. Good wife Lovejoy laid her on the settee, and brewed her some hot herb tea.
That day, with the gold beads by way of celebration, began a new era in Ann's life. There was no more secret animosity between her and Mrs. Dorcas. The doctor had come that night in the very nick of time. Thirsey was almost dying. Her mother was fully convinced that Ann had saved her life, and she never forgot it.
So, soon after the girl was established in the house, she began to show out in various little ways. Thirsey, her youngest child, was a mere baby, a round fat dumpling of a thing. She was sweet, and good-natured, and the pet of the whole family. Ann was very fond of playing with her, and tending her, and Mrs. Dorcas began to take advantage of it.
She almost forgot her own sick little girl, for a few minutes, in trying to restore this brave child who had come from the South Precinct in this dreadful storm to save little Thirsey Wales' life. When Ann came to herself a little, her first question was, if the doctor were ready to go. "He's gone," said Mrs. Lovejoy, cheeringly. Ann felt disappointed. She had thought she was going back with him.
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