Georgina of the Rainbows

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e painful scene which he was recalling, he heard her voice, and looking up

ld, she didn't get her letter. I can tell she's disappointed from th

ow to peer out, but he did it without dislodging Georgina, who was repeating the "tick-t

closer view. "She must be years younger than Justin. She came up to me in the post-office last week and

and blew the ends of her fringed scarf back over her shoulder. She made a bright flash of color against the desolate background. Scarf, cap and thick knitted reefer were all of a w

ed to stay until she was comfortably settled. A Portugese woman on one of the back streets would have come and cooked for her. But land! When I saw how strange and lonesome she seemed and how she turned to me for everything, I didn't have the heart to say go. I only named it once to her, and she sort of choked up and winke

began fumbling the watch back into the velveteen pocket. She f

med only a swirl of white dress and blue ribbon and flying brown curls. But this time the giddy going up and down was in tame silence.

l, no matter how downhearted she is, to think that she wasn't one of the Mayflower passengers, and that she's nearly three hundred years away from their hardships and that

ided attention, and laying an imperious litt

but she was not to be silenced in such a way. Leaning over until her mischievous brown eyes compelled him to look

t no one could be hardhearted enough to resist the magi

please to 'em that way. But how that honey-sweet tone and the yells she was letting loos

na's mother came in. The salt wind had blown color into her cheeks as bright as her rose-pink reefer. Her disappointment about the letter had left a wistful shadow in her

" scrambled down and ran to throw herself into her mother's arms. Barby was her way of saying Barbara. It was the first word she had ever spoken and her proud

he best chums in the world. And I'm _not_ going to spoil her even if I am young and inexperienced. There a

ation, or make a nuisance of herself. So, young as she was, Georgina had already learned what was expected of her, when her mother having greeted Mr. Darcy and laid aside her wraps, drew up to the fire to talk to him. B

h which he ended the last gallop. "He's going to tell us about father when he was a little boy no bigger

lf down on the rug she began kicking her blue shoes up and down on the hearth, roaring, _"No! No!"_ at the top of her voice. Barbara paid no attention at first, but finding it impossible to talk with such a noise going on,

a novel punishment made her hold her breath to find what was going to happen next, and in the stillness she heard her mother say calmly as she walk

trying to rub out the dent which the fall had made in its side. It was such an interesting kitchen, seen through this peep-hole that Georgina became absorbed in rolling her eye around for wider views. Then she found another outlook on the other s

t?" Both little arms were stretched joyously up to her, and a

ry still more deeply by being put into her own hands afterwards as she sat in Mrs. Triplett's lap. Once more her tiny finger's tip was made to trace the letters engraved around the rim, as she was told about her great-great aunt and

just how it was done, the fact was impressed upon her as years went by that there were many things which she could not do, si

their importance to Georgina, for they gave her three memories--Jeremy's teeth, the Towncrie