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M WILLIAMS WILLIAMS II I N ELL danced down fn the garden walk walk chanting raucously Com Come u er r on rr yer one toot foot Dilly 1 Loul Emmer nimer Lout Emmer r-Loul r Lout Loul Dilly Billy Emm Emmr Emmer r- r Lout Loul LoutOn On One ODe foot toot two toot foot bare bar foot toot iho shoe foot toot Shine China down d de grapevine fr Billy Billy- Emm Emmer Lout r-Lout Ellen I I l Vinegar was wasn in n her stepmothers step step- mothers mother's voice Wherever did yon you learn such stuff rt 1 I II Granny sung It to me when I r I wasn't knee high to a grasshopper Nell returned InnO Innocently i It strikes s me as very underbred y yet yet t I heard beard before coming hero here that you linkers Bakers ranked yourselves ourselves real quality answered cold ly 1 Songs of that sort nort would be er very offensive to some of ot your most worthwhile worthwhile worth worth- while neighbors ne r huhn l I With some of em Glad I J aint that sort ort Nell ell flung back buck tier her eyes blazing Mrs Daker gr grew w scarlet Your grammar would make many people I glad not to be your sort sho Iho returned still more Icily Nell cd I 1 aint It The sort that stay pay I taken and saw and seen Mrs Baker rose furious furlou If It If If It I had seen had seen had heard you your you your Impertinence I should never have been ben In this horrible position she gasped Oh I 1 Oh I 1 Why didn't you youl I Nell cried pretending to sob then suddenly sud i denly an In a n clear level voice Since Iwas I Iwas Iwas was not since not since you are here In here In my I mothers mother's stead stead stend n little choke there I I offer you a fair bargain Let Iet me alone dont don't don't dont try to humiliate me You cant can't make me over over over-no no more than I Ican Ican Ican can make you Show me decent courtesy courtesy but but most of all nil dont don't Interfere Interfere Interfere Inter Inter- fere with me me ray ray likings nor des pis Ings togs You mean become a cipher In my myown myown myown own house hous was the tho answer Nell got white for a breath then laughed softly Joke Is on you ou she said Happens the house Is mine mint Granny left leet It that way She loved lo m my mother better than her own son Mrs 1 Haker later Inter accepted the tile offered offered of of- bargain tacitly and raging rasing deep down Love Loe constrained her Not love of the good looking elderly gen gentleman tieman who had seemed a special providence when she had In reckless greed risked and lost her comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- able competence thirty singularly singularly handsome dominant used to careful luxury work had seemed to her worse than death The Tho daughter was of course n drawback but one on she sho could put aside An untrained girl with sweethearts n aplenty a plenty could be easily sent away from the home nest then she had assured herself on this point there would b be money enough for ln living as ns she cho chose e. e The big handsome old ohl house houle set fair amid Its fields orchards untouched woodlands woodlands wood wood- lands and clear dear running waters pleased her so 80 well she was eager nger to have her own friends come see and enjoy It t with her but only after she alto had lied made herself supreme There la lay unacknowledged the seed of hostility to her husbands husband's daughter Hut But before It had grown rank runk came something stronger stronger discovery discovery that Nell ell was her ber rival rl for the only man she Rhe felt she Rhe could truly 10 love It had come like Ike a lightning stroke taking stroke taking her breath almost her reason after the first encounter Pleading Illness she had lain alone all night staring wide wide- eyed out Into the starlit darkness all her consciousness u It flaming memory of John Jolua Harrison To Mrs linker Baker herself he had hud been most courteous yet t so causal she doubted If he had given her tier a second thought There la lay the sting of It She knew she he had made no appeal to him bm Her utmost hope was WIlS somehow to come between him and that atrocious Ellen Ite- Ite sides she was too wise to risk substance sub stance for shadow So the long night through she he wrestled mightily with the uncanny feeling and came out victor at morning something wan and anil hollow hl hollow eyed eyed d also 1110 to write InvitIng Inviting ing tag Lenox the most fascinating ing lug of her friends to come como to her new home for a long longIst visit lie He came saw and und coveted the coveted-the the Ic Urd d and Its whose whose baby stare and Infantine smiles made her appear uncommonly covetable Mrs Jiro Baker Raker made a n feint of disapproving disapproving- which Nell NII knew Instantly for the gesture It was Sit tight Man John 1 I she admonished Harrison Harrson The Lady of Cult Culture url will get gt you ou If It you OU dont don't watch out Meaning If If C If you ou dont don't wat watch ll out nut Man Johnny smiled My Iy strength Is isas at as the strength of ten when I know youre you're doing that thatto Over Over confidence Is III dangerous Nell said old She makin medicine medi cine clue t to make mischief II How ow what and where asked Man Man Jealously a n n quarrel quarrel- right here bere betwixt us two said Nell Harrison whistled sy softly swung Nell up to hl his l shoulder houlder saying What a n shame to have all that trouble wasted Then marched Into the astounded group there and saying me mf a Noble human toman with his bb Sabine Bride |
