Hepsey Burke

st a man's business, anyway; and

you? You pay her enough, certainly, to k

e in by the day, and cooked for Jonathan, and i

a while; but when my buttonholes got tore larger, instead of sewin' 'em up, she just put on a large

idowers. Now Jonathan, why don't you lay aside your sewin'

just in apple-pie order, as you might say. Things

or Mrs. Burke gazed about

e wrote her name with the end of her 64 finger in the dust on the center-table. "Why don't you open the parlor occasio

e parlor much, 'cept there was a funeral in t

things away occasionally, and not lea

's where it belongs; but if it's left just where I

live! The least you could do woul

'em again 'fore long?" Jonathan asked. "It just makes so much

things go like this w

nions will differ about some things. She'd never let me go up the 65 front stairs without takin' my boots off, so as not to soil the

t worried her a lot more than her conscience, poor soul. I should thin

better than comin'. The fact is, a man of my age can't live

day; but I'll tidy up a bit before I go, if you don't m

do anything you like," he

to the garden, and returned with a big bunch of flowers which she placed in a large glass vase on the mantel. Then she hung Jonathan's dressing gown over the back of a chair, 66 and p

athan! That's b

ed profoundly

a man can't do that kind of thing like a woman can? He

was done it came back to her with sudden force; so, puckerin

the parlor or to jolly you. I've come to have a confid

s it, H

rimo

h self-conscious embarrassment; and after

in' matrimony again, Hepsey?

Gideon, 67 no. It's about some one el

Jonathan inquired, with a

dopte

Maxwell and Virginia Bascom; but I didn'

n't nothin' t

as then, for

picture on his mantelpiece yesterday mornin

ryin' 'aint none of our

ot to be fixed over a whole lot 'fore it's fit to live in. You know the

om past experience that Hepsey's word

ave, if you sa

s, with my consent. It's the worst old rat-trap I ever saw. I've got the 68 key, and I

nturin' some. You don't know

point that way, and we've

o think that Virginia has a first

d I'm goin' to tell him so the first chance I get. I don't see why he should air his private affairs all over t

my knowledge and belief t

at the rectory at

the vestry first," the Ju

, I'd lik

e the trustees

nd to the property? The

reful. I'll be the

ted for the door; but Jo

well to have you. It would seem so nice and home

his a proposal of m

in that light; but if you wo

was beating

about the room as if his late wife might appear at any moment as an avenging deity, and drag him into the kitchen where he belonged. But nothing happened, and he began to feel a realization of his independence. He sat and thought for a

ut she's dead, and I must confess I'm powerful re

"get thee behind me" abruptness, and puttin