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Annet was not too sure, and her brow puckered with a frown as she searched for the meaning beneath her aunt's words. But Matthew Henry believed them literally. "Then," he exclaimed joyfully, "it's all nonsense about Farmer Santo's uncle's sheep-dog. For Aunt Vazzy has beautiful hair!"
The afternoon was sunny; the flat rock on which they were perched lay out of the wind's reach; and to beguile the interval of waiting Annet drew out a book which she had brought with her a much-worn copy of Hans Andersen which had arrived at Christmas, three years ago, as a gift from that mysterious Aunt Vazzy of whom their mother talked so often.
"Leastways," said a voice at the gate, "he gave over drinking except when his master ran a cargo of brandy, and he never gave his wife trouble but once, when he took home a mermaid and made the good soul jealous." "Aunt Vazzy!" cried the children. "Why, how long have you been standin' there?"
But have you never seen how, when a man grows rich or powerful suddenly, his old friends, the best of them, draw away from him, not in envy at all, but just because they feel he has been taken from them?" "Yes," said the Commandant, "I have seen such cases." "And I wanted still to be Vazzy to her even though I must come after husband and children."
"I don't want to marry no woman with a tail like a fish, nor no woman that makes thikky noise with her breathin'," maintained Jan. "That's to say, if merrymaid it were, which I doubts. But you're wrong about my father, Miss Vazzy. He see'd a merrymaid sure 'nough; but he never took her home. No, he was too much of a gentleman, besides bein' afeard o' my mother.
Jan said there was no good luck ever in spying on a mermaid, but Aunt Vazzy said that was nonsense, and of course we believed Aunt Vazzy " But here the child came to a full stop, startled by a swift change in the Commandant's look, and by a sudden sharp exclamation. "Your Aunt Vazzy?" The Commandant's hand went up to his forehead.
The Commandant's eyes grew rounder yet with amazement, and Vashti afraid, perhaps, of meeting them flung a glance of mock terror behind her, as though she had caught the footfall of a pursuer. "But but who in the world " stammered Mr. Rogers. "If you please, gentlemen" she turned, with another quick curtsey "my name is Vazzy Cara, and I come from Saaron.
She nodded; and as, forgetting politeness, he held the lantern close to her face, he saw two large tears brim up, tremble, and hang for a second before they fell. "You?" he murmured. She nodded again. "I am Vashti Vazzy Cara, they called me, Philip Cara's daughter. I daresay, though, you never heard my name? No, there is no reason why you should. And my sister, Ruth "
It all depends on the heart that tries it; but there is nothing can do him harm if he keeps up his courage; and the end of the road is worth all the journey, for a man." "Why, Aunt Vazzy, you talk as if you had been there!" cried Annet. "And so I have, my dear; there and back again." The three children stared at her. "Aunt Vazzy is joking," said Linnet, severely.
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