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Updated: July 5, 2025
One day when he was stamping his foot very much, as if he was Matthias in "The Bells," my little Edy, who was a terrible child and a wonderful critic, said: "Don't go on like that, Henry. Why don't you talk as you do to me and Teddy? At home you are the Vicar." The child's frankness did not offend Henry, because it was illuminating.
And Edy Boardman laughed too at the quaint language of little brother. But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception to this golden rule.
As the little party walked on, Miss Katharine turned her head more than once for another look at the schoolhouse. "Wouldn't it be fun, Edy, to teach school in there and ring that 'lin-lan-lone bell' to call in the scholars? I'd make you study botany harder'n you ever did before." "No, thank you, Miss Dunlee," replied Edith, courtesying. "You'll not get me to worrying over botany.
Edy straightened up baby Boardman to get ready to go and Cissy tucked in the ball and the spades and buckets and it was high time too because the sandman was on his way for Master Boardman junior.
"But where are you going to go, Miss Edith?" asked her groom, Oliver, now speaking for the first time. "Back to Luckenough." "What for, Miss Edith, for goodness sake?" "Back to Luckenough to guard the dear old house, and take care of you two." "But oh, Miss Edy! Miss Edy! for Marster in heaven's sake what'll come o' you?" "What the Master in heaven wills!"
Then they could talk about her till they went blue in the face, Bertha Supple too, and Edy, little spitfire, because she would be twentytwo in November. She would care for him with creature comforts too for Gerty was womanly wise and knew that a mere man liked that feeling of hominess.
There was absolutely no movement, but her face grew white, and the audience knew what was going on in her soul, as she read the name of the man who years before had seduced and deserted her. As Juliet I did not look right. My little daughter Edy, a born archaeologist, said: "Mother, you oughtn't to have a fringe." Yet, strangely enough, Henry himself liked me as Juliet.
How she got into her grandmother's house she hardly knew; but without a supper, and without confronting either her relative or Edy, she went to bed. On going out into the garden next morning, with a strange sense of being another person than herself, she beheld Jim leaning mutely over the gate. He nodded. 'Good morning, Margery, he said civilly. 'Good morning, said Margery in the same tone.
But if I fail and lose my life, they will say that Edith was a cracked-brained girl who deserved her fate, and that they had always predicted she would come to a bad end." "Better go on to Hay Hill, Miss Edy! 'Deed, 'fore marster, better go to Hay Hill." "No," said the young girl, "my resolution is taken we will return to Luckenough." The arguments of the old negroes waxed fainter and fewer.
For such a one she yearns this balmy summer eve. With all the heart of her she longs to be his only, his affianced bride for riches for poor, in sickness in health, till death us two part, from this to this day forward. And while Edy Boardman was with little Tommy behind the pushcar she was just thinking would the day ever come when she could call herself his little wife to be.
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