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"I'll ask Colonel 'Gustus to marry Abby Grant after she gets growed, and let my auntie stay at home." "The worst of it is," continued Prudy, glad of her sister's sympathy, such as it was, "Colonel Allen is a lawyer." "Well, isn't lawyers as good as white folks?" "The only trouble with lawyers, Dotty, is, that they can't write so you can read it. My father told me so.
Gustus had decided that he was worthy of Family friendship, and, being naturally extravagant, she conferred it upon him with both hands. Mr. Russell was married to a woman who had not properly realised the fact that she was Mrs. Russell. She spent her life in distant lands, helping the world to become better.
When the admirer was introduced to Cousin Gustus, she said, "Oh, so this is your husband ..." and gazed on that melancholy man with eagerness. When she saw Mr. Russell's Hound she said, "And this is your dog," and was about to crown him with a corresponding halo when Mrs. Gustus disclaimed the connection.
We're all feverish, that's what's the matter with us. When I was in hospital I lived for three weeks on the top of a high temperature, laughing. I want to laugh now.... It's a damn funny world." "I once knew a man who died of apoplexy while swearing," sniffed Cousin Gustus. "You have been damned unlucky in your friends, Cousin Gustus," said Kew.
As we ourselves, possibly, are rather overcooked by the fire of civilisation, this vulgar deficiency in our enemy is very apparent to us. This is an elaborate, but not a pleasing analogy, and it was fortunate that Mr. Russell was interrupted. Otherwise, I think he might have been trying to this day to explain it to an exasperated Cousin Gustus.
There was a little added excitement in the fact that Luke was not nearly so good-natured as 'Gustus John was, and was very apt to chase them off his premises when he found them there. He said the horses would not eat the hay after the children had jumped on it.
The letter which Mrs. Gustus showed to Kew may be quoted here: "This place has stood since the year twelve something, and its windows look down without even the interruption of a sill at the coming and going of the tides. It has hardly any garden, and immediately to the right and the left of it the green down brims over the top of the cliff like the froth of ale over a silver goblet.
Do you remember how you hated to wash your hands and that funny cotton cap you liked to wear with Goldenrod Flour printed across it?" "Of course, I remember. And I remember how the fellows used to tease me about you. I licked Gustus twice for it, when we were in the ward schools. Lydia, let's go over those old trails together again. To-morrow's Sunday.
Margery had insisted on his being invited. "If I were a boy with a chest like yours, I wouldn't smoke," said Miss Towne, "but do as you please." With a nonchalant "Thanks," Gustus lighted a cigarette. "Going to stay in training all summer, Charlie?" asked Kent. "Yes," grunted Charlie, "but next summer I'll be through with football, and I'll smoke my head off." "Oh! the pines!" shrieked Lydia.
For a time it had seemed as if Cousin Gustus's lot had been cast entirely with the matrimonially unorthodox. And now Mrs. Gustus, for one impatient minute, wished that the children would pay more attention to their elderly and experienced guardian. It was too much to ask her a professional theory-maker to adapt her theories to the young and literal.
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