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"Just see, dearie," she murmured, "how we are always taken care of!" Mrs. Evringham saw Dr. Ballard's buggy drive away and lost no time in discovering who had needed his services. "It's the child," she announced, returning to Eloise's room. "Poor little thing," returned the girl, rising. "Where are you going? Stay right where you are. She has a high fever, and they're not sure yet what it may be.
Where he had left him was a mystery that " Buz-z-z-z! goes the front doorbell, right in the middle of Mr. Ballard's story, and in comes Lizzie sayin' it's someone to see me. For a second I couldn't think who'd be huntin' me up here at this time of the evenin'. And then I remembered, Dorsett. "It it's an uncle of mine," says I to Zenobia, "a reg'lar uncle."
Ballard's eyes grew serious as he turned Hector's head toward the park. "I can scarcely believe it of Mr. Reeves," he said. "He says you are too nice to bow down to false gods," added Jewel shyly. "If mine are false to you, yours are false to me," said the young man kindly. "You can understand that, can't you, Jewel?" "Yes, I can." "And we should never quarrel over it, should we?" he went on.
Forbes, regarding her, "I should say that she sensed the situation and knew she'd brought it on herself and me, and was trying to make up for it; but nobody can tell what she thinks. Her eyes do look more natural. I guess Dr. Ballard's a good one." "It don't seem to hurt you to swallow now," remarked Mrs. Forbes. "No'm, it doesn't, she answered.
Ballard's laugh rang heartily along the leafy street. "Is that your idea of mascoting a poor young physician?" he inquired. Jewel laughed in sympathy. She didn't quite understand him, but she knew that they were having a very good time.
When Peter Junior was able to leave his home and get about a little on his crutches, he loved to come there and rest and spend his idle hours, and Bertrand found pleasure in his companionship. They read together, and sang together, and laughed together, and no sound was more pleasant to Mary Ballard's ears than this same happy laughter.
He was ugly and disposed to be quarrelsome, but I got him to bed at last, suffering myself no graver damage than a bruised biceps where his great fingers had grasped me. Jack Ballard's remark about Frankenstein was no joke. That night a monster Jerry was; from the bottom of my heart I pitied him.
She watched at the window until she saw Dr. Ballard's buggy approaching. Then she opened the door and met him. "Your little visitor do you say?" asked the young doctor as he greeted her and entered. "What mischief has she been up to so soon?" "Oh, the usual sort," returned Mrs. Forbes, and recounted her grievances.
She made the child tell her of the circumstances of her recent illness and cure, and listened to Jewel's affectionate comments on Dr. Ballard's kindness with an inscrutable expression which did not satisfy the child. "You love him, don't you?" asked the little girl. Eloise gave a slight smile. "If everything that isn't love is hate, I suppose I ought to," she returned.
"Why, don't you know?" returned the other. "That's his granddaughter." "His daughter, do you mean? Didn't know he had one." "Not a bit of it. She's Lawrence's stepdaughter." The other shook his head. "That's too involved for me. She's a queen, anyway." "Going to marry Ballard, they say." "That so? Then I won't go up and fall on Evringham's neck. My bank book isn't in Ballard's class.
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