News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-05-03

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| brothers or sisters, only Aunt Jane in
| ST. Paul. and she was so mad she
wouldn't come on. SO there was no
chance of seeing the bride till Father
brought her home.
! Nurse said they wondered and won
dered what kind Of woman it could
| be that had captured him. q told
| her | wished she wouldn't speak of
my mother as If she was some kind of
hunter out after game; but she only
chuckled and said that's about what
1t amounted TO in some cases.) The
( very idea
| The whole town was excited over
/ the affair, and Nurse Sarah heard
! lot Of their talk. Some thought she
was an astronomer like him. Some
thought she was very rich, and may
be famous. Everybody declared she
, must know a lot, anyway, and be
wonderfully wise and intellectual; and
, they said she was probably tall and
wore glasses, and would be thirty
years old, at least. But nobody guessed
anywhere near what she really was
Nurse Sarah said she should never
she looked and how utterly fiabber-
gasted everybody was to see her
little slim eighteen-year-o girl with
yellow, curly hair and the merriest
laughing eyes they had ever seen.
Don't l know? Don't l just love
rfyhn fhn, I'll 10 ~
twinkle when we're off together some
times in the woodsO And Nurse said
Mother was so excited the day she
came, and went laughing and dane
ing all over the house, exclaiming over
everything. Il can't imagine that so
we'll Mother moves so quietly now,
everywhere, and is so tired, most all
the time.) But she wasn't tired then,
Nurse says-not mite.
But how did Father act?" | de-
manded. wasn't he displeased and
scandalized and shocked, and every
thing?"
Nurse shrugged her shoulders and
raised her eyebrows-the way she does
when she feels particularly superior.
Then she said:
do? What does any old fool
begin your pardon an no offense
meant, Miss Mary Marie-but what
does any man do what's got bejuggled
with pretty face, an his senses COM
pletely took away from him by a chit
of girl? Well, that's what he did.
He acted as If he was bewitched. He
followed her around the house like
dOg-when he wasn't leadin' her to
something new an he never took his
eyes off her face except to look at us,
as much as to say: Now amt she the
adorable creatureY
my father did thatT l gasped.
And, really, you know, i just couldn't |
believe my ears. And you wouldn't, |
either, if you knew Father. why, |
/ never saw him act like that p
mo, l guess you didn't" laughed |
Nurse Sarah with a shrug. And |
neither did anybody ese-for long"
But how long did it last?" l asked. |
"Oh, a month, or maybe six weeks"
shrugged Nurse Sarah. "Then it came !
September and college began, and your |
father had to go back to his teach |
ing. Things began to change then"
Right then, so you could see them?"
| wanted to know.
Nurse Sarah shrugged her shoulders /
again.
"Oh, la child, what little ques-
tion-box you are an no mistake" she
sighed. But she didn't look mad-not
like the way she does when ask why
she can take her teeth out and most
Of her hair off and can't; and things
like that. Gas IL didn't know What
does she take me fora childO She
didn't even look Representatives,
Sarah loves to talk. CAS- If didn't
know that, tooD She just threw that
quick look of hers over her shoulder
and settled back cOntentedly In her
chair | knew then | should get the
whole story. And | did. And I'm go-
Ing to tell 1t here In her own words,
just as well as l can remember it
bad grammar and all. So please re-
that am not making all those
mistakes. It's Nurse Sarah.
l guess, though, that I'd better put
t into new chapter. This one is
yards long already. How do they tell
when to begin and end chapters? I'm
it's going to be some job,
writing this book-diary, mean. But
shall love II. i know. And this is
/ real story-not like those made-up
Kings I've always written for the girls
II school,
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