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It did not take very much to make people comfortable then. They owned their house and rented some rooms. Hanny had to go in and see Josie and Tudie Dean's Christmas and bring them in to inspect hers. Then Dele and Nora Whitney were her next callers. Nora had a silk dress and a gold ring with a prettily set turquoise. "The marriage was at ten," began Dele, "and it was just nothing at all.
"I am going into town," said Clement; "and then we are going to spend the day at Aunt Barbara's. They are making hay there. May Claude go? It would make him quite well to play among the hay with me and Fanny and Stephen. Mamma, mayn't he go? Tudie, do let Claudie go." "Mamma, mamma, let me go. Let Mattie dress me. Oh, I want to go among the hay!"
Golyer's heart sank within him as this splendid being shone upon him. But with his rustic directness he walked to meet the laughing couple at the gate, and said, "Tudie, I come to see you. Shall I go in and talk to your mother twell you come back?" "No, that won't pay," promptly replied the brisk stranger. "We will be gone the heft of the afternoon, I reckon.
Miss Gertrude leaned over the chair and watched the play. "How noisy you are, Clement!" she said, at last. "Yes; but it is nice noise. I'm very good to-day, Tudie." "Are you? I am very glad to hear it, and very much surprised too." "Are you cross to-day?" "Why? What makes you ask?" "Oh, because you haven't been here." "I have been busy writing a letter to your mother."
"Oh, Mr. Reed we wanted to to " "To ask you " prompted Tudie. Josie's face was very red. It was different asking about a boy. She had not thought of that. "We want Charles to go to singing-school with us next Saturday. Mr. Bradbury said we might ask all the nice children we knew." Hanny had crossed the Rubicon in a very lady-like manner. Mr.
Hanny had quite a girls' tea-party afterward. Martha spread a table for them upstairs. And the funny thing was, that her father and the boys teased to come, and her mother really had to rush to the rescue. But they did let Doctor Joe remain, and they had a delightful time. Josie and Tudie and Nora told how they would do when they were married. "Now, Hanny!" Daisy Jasper had not spoken.
But we want her to know; and dear little Tudie! You must come over and spend the day, now that school is ended; and we will do nothing but talk about it. Oh, Hanny, I hope some day you will have a lover! But you seem such a sort of a little girl even yet. And I have worn long skirts a whole year." A lover! Hanny's face was scarlet in the fragrant dusk. "We must go in.
I almost wish I had gone." "I promised Claude that if he was very good he should go down to the drawing-room, and you would sing to us," said Christie. "We must air the nursery, you know." "I have been very good, haven't I, Tudie?" said the little boy, looking up from the pictures with which he had been amusing himself.
If the boy had only dared clasp his father's hand and thank him, but he had been repressed and snipped off and kept in leading-strings too long to dare a spontaneous impulse. So he walked over as if he had been following some imaginary chalk line. The Deans were all up in the back parlor. He did his errand and came back at once, before Josie and Tudie had recovered from their surprise.
Then he gave a glance down the long hall, as if meditating a rush in that direction; but he thought better of it. "I'll be good, Tudie. I won't make a noise," said he. "Stay where you are," said Miss Gertrude, decidedly. She led the way down the long hall, then up a flight of steps, and opened the door of a large room.
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