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Updated: May 6, 2025
Torney's heavy tread on the kitchen floor was usually the first thing Julia heard in the morning, and late at night the infatuated housekeeper would slip out to the warm, clean, fragrant place for a last peep at rising dough or simmering soup. Aunt May read the magazines now only to seek out new combinations of meats and vegetables.
Torney's part to go away, with Regina, to starve and struggle again; there had been a scene when Regina coolly refused to leave the new comforts of Julia's rule. And then, suddenly, there was a new woman in the family, in Aunt May's place. Julia always dated the change from a certain Thanksgiving Day, when Mrs. Torney, who was an excellent cook, had prepared a really fine dinner.
She coaxed her aunt to go upstairs to make herself fresh and neat just before dinner, and during the whole evening Mrs. Torney's sons and daughters, Julia and Evelyn, Chester and Mrs. Cox united to praise the dinner and the cook. It was as if poor Aunt May had come into her own, had been given at last the role to which she had always been suited.
I went out there to-day, to take Mama some special little things for Thanksgiving, and see if their turkey had gotten there, and so on, and my heart quite ached for Grandma Mama's very exacting now, and the girls my aunt, Mrs. Torney's girls seemed so apathetic and dull.
After it the doctor set up one of his endless chess problems on the end of the table, and Sammy returned to David Copperfield. "Father, you know Anthony Gayley that young carpenter in Torney's shop?" "I do, my dear." "Well, Clown ran away to-day, and he really saved me from a bad smash." A long pause. "Ha!" said the doctor, presently. "Set this down, will you, Sammy? Rook to queen's fourth. Check.
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