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Updated: June 11, 2025
I'll be writin' you agin when we hit Morgantown. "Your old Muvver Jim." Douglas laid the letter gently on the table, his hand still resting upon it. He looked helplessly at the little, shrunken figure in the opposite chair. Polly had made no sound, but her head had slipped lower and lower and she now sat very quietly with her face in her hands. She had been taught by Toby and Jim never to whimper.
'Exactly, said Coppy gravely. 'But I don't fink I'll ever want to kiss big girls, nor no one, 'cept my muvver. And I must vat, you know. There was a long pause, broken by Wee Willie Winkie. 'Are you fond of vis big girl, Coppy? 'Awfully! said Coppy. 'Fonder van you are of Bell or ve Butcha or me? 'It's in a different way, said Coppy.
All that day, the tall, ruddy-haired man in working clothes sat in the hall, within sight, though not within hearing, of the sick room, playing with the rosy child, and exerting all his ingenuity to invent quiet games that they could play there "where Muvver tan see us"; Ariadne soon learned the reason for staying in one place so constantly. She was very happy that day.
Well, you wait, my lad! There's a little taste of 'ell-sauce a-comin' your way wot'll make you sit up and bawl for yer muvver. He'd got on sailorin' togs, Mr. Cleek, an' a black 'at pulled down low over one eye. Mate wiv 'im looked like a real bad 'un. Gold rings in 'is ears 'e'd got like a bloomin' lydy, an' a blue sweater, and sailor's breeches.
An old woman sitting in the boat pulled off her shoes, sat in a loop of the rope, and lifted her hand as a signal to her son on deck. "Hey, fellers," said the boy, "help me pull me muvver up. She wants to sell a few dozen apples, an' they won't let her up the gangway!" Big Ivan didn't understand the words, but he guessed what the boy wanted.
She regretted excessively that she had not been awake to enjoy the adventure. At Aunt Julia's, things were quieter. All at once the other people, the other uncles and aunts, had disappeared. That, of course, was because she and Muvver were at Aunt Julia's.
The solemn glare and pursed mouth with which he met his mother's look of blank amazement may be imagined but cannot be described he looked so quiet, too, and so evidently contented, for the warm water was congenial! "O Charlie! did I not say that " "Yes, muvver, but I'm bu'nt."
As if anything mattered, with little Kathleen lying out there white and still under the black earth! "Muvver!" The Lady in Black stirred restlessly, and glanced toward the closed door. Behind it she knew was a little lad with wide blue eyes and a dimpling mouth who wanted her; but she wished he would not call her by that name. It only reminded her of those other little lips silent now. "Muvver!"
He just said he hoped eating bread and milk like her would make him as good as she was and she was good oh, Muvver, she was trying ever so hard to be good "Come, dear," said Aunt Julia, "Mother's getting tired. We'd better go."
It was a little queer, of course, to stay right there all the time, and to have Muvver staring at them from the bedroom at the other end of the hall, and not to be allowed to do more than tiptoe in once or twice and kiss her without saying a word; but when Ariadne grew confused with trying to think this out, and the little eyes drooped heavily, the new man picked her up and tucked her away in his arms so comfortably that, though she meant to reach up and feel if his beard felt as red as it looked, she fell asleep before she could raise her hand.
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