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Then a light seemed to dawn on her. "You frauds! So this is what you were whispering about! This is the way Cousin Ephraim buys his shirts!" "C-Cynthy," said Jethro, apologetically, "d-don't you think you ought to have a nice city dress for that supper party?" "So you're ashamed of my country clothes, are you?" she asked gayly. "W-want you to have the best, Cynthy," he replied.
I'll telephone my servants to pack a steamer trunk and send it around to your apartment this evening. And where am I to board?" "I have a dining room," she said simply. "My apartment consists of the usual number of servants and rooms, including my office, and my observation ward which you will occupy." He walked on, troubled. "I only w-want to ask one or two things, Dr. Hollis.
If she was displeased with him she would not let him go out, and when she was really angry she tore out his false teeth, thus leaving him a horrible sight for several days. It soon occurred to her that her husband ought to be a doctor of medicine and surgery, and she so informed him. "My dear, do you w-want me to be arrested?" he asked fearfully. "Don't be a fool!
It was intolerable that he, the first citizen of Brampton, should have to submit to such humiliation. "Write 'em now. W-want to see 'em." "But if I give you my word they will be written and sent to you to-morrow afternoon?" "T-too late," said Jethro; "sit down and write 'em now." Mr. Worthington went irresolutely to the table, stood for a minute, and dropped suddenly into the chair there.
"W-want to stop this consolidation, don't you want' to stop it?" "Certainly I do." "G-goin' to do all you can to stop it hain't you?" "Certainly I am." "I-I'll help you," said Jethro. "Help us!" exclaimed Balch. "Great Scott, we want you to take charge of it." "I-I'll do all I can, but I won't guarantee it w-won't guarantee it," said Jethro. "We don't ask you to guarantee it.
"W-want to stop this consolidation, don't you want' to stop it?" "Certainly I do." "G-goin' to do all you can to stop it hain't you?" "Certainly I am." "I-I'll help you," said Jethro. "Help us!" exclaimed Balch. "Great Scott, we want you to take charge of it." "I-I'll do all I can, but I won't guarantee it w-won't guarantee it," said Jethro. "We don't ask you to guarantee it.
"Duncan and Lovejoy have their people paid to sit there night and day," Mr. Worthington had said. "We've got a bare majority on a full House; but you don't seem to dare to risk it. What are you going to do about it, Mr. Bass?" "W-want the bill to pass don't you?" "Certainly," Mr. Worthington had cried, on the edge of losing his temper. "L-left it to me didn't you?
"W-want you to go to school for a winter, Cynthy. Shouldn't think I'd done right by you if I didn't." "But I have been to school. Daddy taught me a lot, and Mr. Satterlee has taught me a great deal more. I know as much as most girls of my age, and I will study so hard in Coniston this winter, if that is what you want. I've never neglected my lessons, Uncle Jethro."
"Oh, yes," answered Cynthia, forgetting her own grievance at the recollection; "only it didn't seem nearly that long." "W-want to know!" exclaimed Jethro, in astonishment, putting down his paper. "H-how did it happen?" "Come right up and spoke to us," said Ephraim, in a tone he might have used to describe a miracle, "jest as if he was common folk. Never had a more sociable talk with anybody.
"I w-was c-coming up with s-some t-tea for you and and th-there I s-saw another man," he jerked out, overcome by the pathos of it. "I th-threw it overboard." "But supposing there had been sixteen men, why shouldn't I talk to them?" "I d-don't w-want you to. I w-wanted to talk to you." "Well!" She could find nothing else to say in her astonishment.
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