The Story of the Gravelys
fair head, then hastil
cond-class establishment. I know you like first-class things. Come to me when you want a gown, and it shall be given to you at cost price, with just a trifle to satisfy you for my work'-wasn't
child," said her
ext item," said Mar
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-what in the name of comm
when you know you ought to get up, to roll yourself in the soft clothes and have another nap! You remember that I had got into a great way of having my breakfast in bed. Well, madam in bed meant careless
t I made myself. I sprang out of bed in the morning, had my cold plunge, and was down before you
, rat
ast. One morning I found her making pastry, and putting the most delicious-looking[45] yellow butter in it.
said
-butter, Jane?' I asked; 'i
out it,' she said, 'but I know you like
o economize, and I want you to help me. If you c
ed creature she is-and seemed to think it a
said, 'I'm
ou really want me to. There's lots of ways I can save for you,
nt adulterated food, but my husband and I are young, and we wan
't stay in the kitchen and watch[46] her, but she watches herself, a
exact list of your economi
sugar was so many dollars in June; in July it is so many dollars less. Of course, w
ought it only
stay," said Margaretta, sha
aved in not entertaining Miss Gr
ewport who has been stayin
come into your
ven't done a thing for her beyond being polite and talking to he
l, b
order of[47] things, have made a dinner for Miss Gregory. I would have had a picnic, an
and made
ook her up the river-you remember the decorated boats and the delightful music. It was charming, but we could not afford it, and when I went to New York she met me on Fifth Avenue, and said, 'Oh, how do you do-so glad to see y
d," said Roger, pi
ntinued his wife. "Now go o
ew,[48] Margaretta!-you don't mean to s
, I
your household arrangements. Why
and vegetables out of season, in spite of our garden, but now I look in the shop windows and say with a person I was reading about the other day, 'Why,
if you will keep this thing going,
lemnly, "you shall not leave this house.
oung moon, he murmured, "Thank God for a good wife." Then he[49] turned to
, humbly; "but I know what you mean, Roger. A
fellows, too, working early and late, straining every nerve to keep up the extravag
ed it, and said, apologetically, "Perha
n in choosing a wife ought to loo
ives on yonder
dy as ever
d a ga
Margaretta, flyin
e tall lad and the tall girl, both light-haired, both blue of eyes, and
Strange that the grandson of such a woman had so little character, and Roger sighed slightly. Bonny was a mere boy, thoughtless,
so good in you to remember your promise to come and tell me about
we had a regular fleet of canoes. I say, Margaretta, I li
ny, what do you
me kind of a
bled. "How many people
bout s
or four of your chosen friends
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what do you
bout him. I hat
d Bonny. "Come, Ma
give a party to all Riverport if it would please you, but I am tr
blue eyes. "You are not
g on a big scale doesn't amount to much. Once in awhile a huge affair is nice, but to ke
aturedly. "I'll take him for a
sion on the river, if you like, with half a dozen of your friends, and I'll give you a good big party
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us wait for the
n boy here as often as you like, to drop in to meals. I shall
id the young man, who had gone off into a
then, jumping up, sa
etta?" asked Roger. "I'l
eadache," s
the young man, with a meaning glance at the s
"Wives' cold cash salve for th
lve is that?" aske
ur own, Bonny," said his sister,
away, she slipped into the hammock and tu
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ch. I'm never more going to spend all the money I get, even i