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He repeated the words as though he could not understand them. Then he put his hands on her cheeks and peered into her face in the semi-darkness of the porch. "Not blind? Oh, mommie, not blind?" She nodded, her lips trembling. "Yes, it's come. I'm blind." The words, fraught with so much sorrow, sounded like claps of thunder in his ears. "Mother," he cried again, "you can't be blind!" "But I am.
Phares was lovely about it and said he could just as well take your few acres in with his and pay a percentage to me for the crops he'll get from them. Phares is kind; he has a big heart, for all his queer ways and his strict views." "Phares is too good to be related to me, mommie. I'm ashamed of myself." "Ach, you two are just different, that's all. I can go over and stay at their house.
"I want shooder in my soup!" "But, darling, mommie doesn't eat sugar in her soup!" "Shooder! Dinkie wants shooder, shooder in his soup!" "Daddy never eats shooder in his soup, Sweetness." "I want shooder!" "But really nice little boys don't ask for sugar in their soup," argued the patient-eyed Struthers. "Shooder!" insisted the implacable tyrant. And he got it.
He did not at any rate pursue the subject any farther, until he found an opportunity to talk to Mrs. MacDonald herself. Then he artfully mentioned the fellow on Mill Creek, and because she did not know any reason for caution, he got all the information he wanted, and more, for mommie was in one of her garrulous humors. He went away in a thoughtful mood, and I may as well tell you why.
Phœbe is going to read to me now when you go. She'll be up here often." "Yes, that makes it easier for me to go, mommie." "Don't you worry about me. Phœbe will be good company for me and she'll write my letters for me. We'll send you so many you'll be busy reading them." "I'm going to make her promise that," he declared with a laugh.
"Mommie" he grabbed her hands and kissed them "there's not another like you in the whole world! If I were blind I'd be groaning and moaning and making life miserable for everybody near me, and here you are your same cheerful self. You're the bravest of 'em all!" "But you mustn't think that I haven't rebelled against this, that I haven't cried out against it!
"Isn't what?" he asked and shut the door behind him with the air of one who is ready for anything. "Isn't the kind of man who wants to hire out to do chores," Billy Louise finished and looked at him straight. "Are you? Mommie wants to hire you." "Oh. Well, I was just about to ask for the job, anyway." He laughed, and the distrust left his eyes.
I'd be home, right now, asking mommie whether I should use soda or baking-powder to make my muffins with Oh, gracious!" She leaned over and caught a handful of Blue's slatey mane and tousled it, till he laid his ears flat on his head and nipped his nose around to show her that his teeth were bared to the gums. Billy Louise laughed and gave another yank.
If she had, he would have convinced her that she was mistaken, and that he had that afternoon been washing gold a good ten miles from there, until it was too dark for him to work. He took the nugget back home, and he took it sooner than he had intended to return. Poor mommie was looking white and frail, and her temples were too distinctly veined with purple.
I'm certainly going to take you over to see her, mommie, the very first nice day when I don't have a million other things to do." Billy Louise sighed and pushed her hair back impatiently. "I wish I were a man and as smart as Charlie Fox," she added, with the plaintive note that now sometimes crept into her voice when she realized of a sudden how great a load she was carrying.
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