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If I can't make you stop tryin' to spoil my child fur me, I can anyways learn her what she'll get oncet, if she don't mind!" Again his hand grasped Tillie's shoulder as he turned her about to take her into the house. "You better watch out, Jake Getz, or you 'll have another doctor's bill to pay!" the doctor warningly called after him.
I wanted to see things work out right for you." All the color had faded from Tillie's face. "You're very good to me, Mr. Le Moyne," she said. "I don't wish the poor soul any harm, but oh, my God! if she's going, let it be before the next four months are over." K. had fallen into the habit, after his long walks, of dropping into Christine's little parlor for a chat before he went upstairs.
When the Denver papers announced that Thea Kronborg had married Frederick Ottenburg, the head of the Brewers' Trust, Moonstone people expected that Tillie's vain-gloriousness would take another form. But Tillie had hoped that Thea would marry a title, and she did not boast much about Ottenburg, at least not until after her memorable trip to Kansas City to hear Thea sing.
Tillie she didn't answer nothin'. Sometimes I do now think Tillie's some different to what other girls is." "I'd be glad," said Jacob Getz in a milder tone, "if she ain't set on havin' him. I was some oneasy she might take it a little hard when I tole her she darsent get married." "Och, Tillie she never takes nothin' hard," Mrs. Getz answered easily.
Then, too, penurious and saving as he was, he was strictly honest, and he would not have thought it right to let his sister pay for his child's necessary wearing-apparel. "No, Tillie's got to be punished. When I want her to have new caps, I'll buy 'em fur her." Tillie reentered the room with the precious bits of linen tenderly wrapped up in tissue paper.
I know I promised." "Then she ?" "She's still living. Playing with paper dolls that's the latest." Tillie sat down suddenly on one of the stiff chairs. Her lips were as white as her face. "I thought, when I saw you " "I was afraid you'd think that." Neither spoke for a moment. Tillie's hands twisted nervously in her lap. Mr.
Me and Nathaniel Puntz has a statement to make to the Board that'll chase that tony dude teacher off his job so quick he won't have time to pack his trunk!" "Is that so?" the doctor said in feigned surprise. "Well, he certainly is some tony that I must give him, Jake. Well, good night to yous! Be careful of Tillie's health!"
It was therefore the somber doctrine of fear preached by the Reverend Brother Abram Underwocht which did its work upon Tillie's conscience so completely that the gentler Gospel set forth afterward by the Evangelical brother was scarcely heeded.
It took the place of the Golden Rule, the Ten Commandments, and the Catechism. It was: "Mind your own business." The discovery of Tillie's hiding-place interested but did not thrill him. Tillie was his cousin. If she wanted to do the sort of thing she was doing, that was her affair. Tillie and her middle-aged lover, Palmer Howe and Grace the alley was not unfamiliar with such relationships.
Tillie's confidences stimulated the general discussion of Thea's venture. This discussion went on, upon front porches and in back yards, pretty much all summer. Some people approved of Thea's going to Chicago, but most people did not. There were others who changed their minds about it every day. Tillie said she wanted Thea to have a ball dress "above all things."
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