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But her family and friends declared it was due to the fact that she was out-growing her tom-boy habits. Sunday morning was far spent before the family met under the oak trees for their first meal. Seeing how late it was, Mrs. Brewster and Sary decided to have but two meals that day a combination breakfast and lunch and a good dinner and supper about five o'clock.
She was completely mystified by them and yet she had an uncomfortable feeling. They were so stealthy that she could not help guessing that something underhand was going on. “Do you know Rosie Brine?” Maida asked Dicky Dore one evening when they were reading together. “Sure!” Dicky’s face lighted up. “Isn’t she a peach?” “They say she is a tom-boy,” Maida objected. “Is she?”
As they came to the side porch, Ann Penhallow said, "Finish that handkerchief now, at once. It is time you were taught other than tom-boy ways." John went by into the house. After dinner the Squire had his usual game of whist, always to the dissatisfaction of Leila, whose thoughts wandered like birds on the wing, from twig to twig.
But it was not by her attachment to the cart-horse alone that Amabel disturbed the composure of the head-nurse and of Louise the bonne. She was a very Will-o'-the-wisp for wandering. She grew rapidly, and the stronger she grew the more of a Tom-boy she became. Beyond the paddock lay another field, whose farthest wall was the boundary of a little wood, the wood where Jan had herded pigs.
"'Cause she's a big tom-boy," said Lovina Tibbs, who had come from the kitchen to call the family to supper. "Ain't yer 'shamed of yerself, Mary Elliot? a great girl like you, most ten years old, walkin' top o' rail fences and climbin' apple-trees in the low pastur'!" "No, I'm not!" said Mollie, promptly. "Hush, Mollie," said Mrs. Elliot. "Lovina, that will do.
You had better go back to your lessons, and don't be silly," as she looked much disposed to cry. "No one but a Tom-boy would dream of it," added Norman; and Mary departed disconsolate, while Margaret gave a sigh of weariness, and said, as she returned to her work, "There, I believe I have done. I hope I was not cross with poor Mary, but it was rather too much to ask."
He is a mere scaffolding, a sickly-looking chap. He eats too little. I heard him remark to you that potatoes disagreed with him and that he never ate apples." "But, James, what shall we do with him? It is a new and a difficult responsibility." "Do with him? Oh! make a man of him. Give him and Leila a week's holiday. Turn him loose with that fine tom-boy.
The approaching dignity of sixteen lay over the girls, and while Kat was still a most thoroughly romping tom-boy, Kittie was wonderfully womanly, with pretty, graceful, lady-like ways, the sweetest possible voice, and the loveliest eyes that ever looked, with girlish innocence, into the face of the man who felt that love her he could, and love her he would, in spite of himself.
I won't have you dragging her about the country in this way; before you've done you'll make a regular tom-boy of her, and, bless her heart, she's a real delicate little lady." Master Willie tried to look penitent, and he secretly hoped their beloved nest would not be discovered. However, the nurse had her suspicions of their bush, so she walked straight up to it and then round it.
"Tut, tut!" said the tutor; "I always tell your ladyship that you are still a tom-boy at heart, as when I first came, and you climbed trees and pelted myself and my young students with horse-chestnuts. He smacked his lips with a grotesque contortion, and looked at Master McGreedy, who choked himself with his last raisin, and forthwith burst into tears.
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