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That very evening she was taken with Edward to Vi's room to look at the trousseau, told of all the arrangements for the wedding and the summer sojourn at the North, and made the recipient of many handsome presents from Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore, Elsie, and Violet. But for her recent sad bereavement she would have been a very happy little woman indeed.
Naturally Vi's thoughts were full of the husband from whom she had just parted for how long? it might be months or years. "Mamma," she said, "the more I am with him and study his character, the more I honor and trust and love him. It is the one trial of my otherwise exceptionally happy life, that we must pass so much of our time apart, and that he has such a child as Lulu to mar his enjoyment of "
"No, I am sure it is by no means a hopeless undertaking, looking where you do for needed strength and wisdom; and I rejoice almost as much for Lulu's sake as for Vi's, that you have now come among us to stay. I will try to see her in the morning, and do what I can to make it easy for her to join the family circle again. "And now good-night.
"I was giving the doll a ride in a boat I made, and the boat got blown by the wind, and the wind upset the boat, and the boat went under water, 'cause I had a cargo of stones on it, and " "What happened to Vi's doll?" asked Mother Bunker. "Why don't you get to that part of it, Russ?" "I was going to," he said. "The doll fell off when the boat upset and sank, and the doll sank, too, I guess."
The captain gave the facts briefly and suggested that some of the Ion friends drive over and hear them in detail. It was replied that several of them would do so shortly; Grandma Elsie among them, and that she would spend the day, keeping Violet company during her husband's absence at Union, if, as she supposed, Vi's preference should be for remaining at home.
Thus the hopeless attempt to keep both Germany and Italy under the same head was continued. It brought about new conflicts with the popes, who were the feudal suzerains of Naples and Sicily, and ended in the ruin of the house of Hohenstaufen. Henry VI's short reign was beset with difficulties which he sturdily met and overcame.
"I'm very much obliged to him for finding me such a sweet, pretty new mamma. I told him so one day," remarked the child innocently, putting an arm about Vi's neck. "Did you?" Violet asked with an amused smile; "and what did he say?" "Nothing; he just smiled and hugged me tight and kissed me ever so many times. Do you know what made him do that, mamma?"
Edward had remained with them through the winter, had left them in April, intending to make an extensive European tour before returning to his native land, but would surely hasten home for Vi's wedding if his mother's summons reached him in season. "Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings." Rowly. It was Saturday evening.
"It's the soap that does it." "But soap isn't that color when we wash ourselves with it," went on Vi. "And what makes bubbles burst when you blow 'em too big?" "I don't know," answered Russ. Like many an older person, he did not try to answer all Vi's questions. She asked too many of them. "Let's blow the bubbles," suggested Rose. "Then maybe we can see what makes 'em burst!"
He was coming to Aunt Vi's room that evening to show his knee-buckles and cocked hat and find out just what he was to do on the stage. Kyzie wanted to see the cocked hat and felt interested in her own white cap which Mrs. McQuilken was making. It was a good thing for Katharine that she had "Jimmy's play" to think of just now. It helped her through that long forenoon.
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