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"Oh, give over, give over!" the Englishman said stiffly. Pearl laughed delightedly. "It's lots of fun guessing who people are like," she said. "I'm awful smart at it and so is Mary, four years younger'n me. Once we could not guess who Mrs. Francis was like, and Mary guessed it. Mrs. Francis looks like prayer big bug eyes lookin' away into nothin', but hopin' it's all for the best. Do you pray?"
She grew up and run away like the rest of her women folks " she giggled sardonically, "Was a young limb, she was, I used to hear her whistling at them choir boys next door a young limb all the girls in that family was man- chasers the mother run off with the rector's son younger'n she was by a good two years I should say, she must ha' been thirty if she was a minute but pretty prettier n' her mother ever see the mother, Miss Trenton Miss Montrose that was?"
"Which would be Miss Nancy's great-aunt," interrupted John Jr. "Bless the boy," returned the old lady, "he's got the Nichols' head for figgerin'. Yes, Nancy's great-aunt though she was six years and two months younger'n Nancy's mother. Wall, as I was sayin', she went off to Virginny to teach music.
I've seen some of the prettiest babies grow up peaked and pindlin' an' plain as a potato; whilst, on the other hand, reel homely children sometimes come up an' fill out rosy-cheeked an' bright-eyed as you please. There was my half-sister Rachel, now, eight years younger'n me.
So I escaped with her and Milly to the nursery, where I stayed as long as I dared, letting my cheeks cool. "The twee ith mine and Mamma'th," said Joy; "we're the only oneth young enough to have Christhmath twees, Papa thayth." "Hoh, guess I'm younger'n Mamma, ain't I?" scoffed my other little cousin who had been sent to inquire into our delay.
The pastor's wife's got one, anyhow, and she's a year younger'n me." "Don't mind her, Martha she laughs at everything; and how good it is to hear her! She never saw you look so well," replied Jane, as she moved a jar from a table and placed it on the mantel to hold the blossoms she had picked in the garden. "What's she doing upstairs so long?"
"Barbie," I sez at last, "supposin' he is playin' fair? Supposin' he has sacrificed his own happiness to keep sorrow out of your life, an' supposin' you nose around an' discover it who'd be the one 'at played un-fair then? You're powerful young yet; you're a heap younger'n you realize, an' you can't know it all in a day. He'll tell you when he can, an' you ought to trust him.
He sank into an armchair and looked curiously about him. "So you are the late Mr. Warren's brother?" asked the lady, making her first lead in the game. "Yes, ma'am. His older brother. 'Bije was ten year younger'n I am, Mrs. er " "Dunn. I am an old friend of the family." "That's good. I'm glad to hear they've got friends.
She's been making eyes at Johnny Cartwright, and the little fool he ain't more than seventeen, eight years younger'n her is clean daft about her. Poor old Mrs. Cartwright is awfully worried. The little scamp declares he is engaged to Carrie, and, instead of giving the report the lie, she actually seems proud of it." "But how about your marrying?" Henley questioned. "Me?
"De young missus used to beat me a right smaht," he recalled with an amused smile. "I b'longed to her, y'see. She was a couple o' years younger'n me. I mind I used to be hangin' 'round de kitchen, watchin 'em cook cakes an' otha good things. W'en dey be done, I'd beg for one, an' dey take 'em off in de otha room, so's I couldn't steal any.
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