And you should have heard how they swore at Grant
afterward! They just called him everything they could think of
for making them stop. I had to sit around on the other side of
the house--and even then I couldn't help hearing most of it.
"And to-day it is worse, because they just go around like a lot
of dummies and won't do anything but look mean. Aunt Phoebe was
so cross--CROSS, mind you!--because I burnt the jam. And some of
the jumpers are missing, and nobody knows where they went-- and
Marie has got the toothache worse than ever, and won't go and
have it pulled because it will HURT! I don't see how it can hurt
much worse than it does now--she just goes around with tears
running down into the flannel around her face till I could SHAKE
her!" Evadna laughed--a self-pitying laugh, and rocked her small
person violently. "I wish I could have an office and live in it
and telegraph things to people," she sighed, and laughed again
most adorably at her own childishness. "But really and truly,
it's enough to drive a person CRAZY, down at the ranch!"
"For a girl with a brand-new sweetheart--" Miss Georgie reproved
quizzically, and reached for the inevitable candy box.
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