Molly Brown's Orchard Home

, and that you are you! As for me, I feel like 'there was an old woman a

an extremely rickety taxi that Judy had engaged to take the Browns from th

ent over to Monroe's this morning and got your mail. I could hardly lug it home, both of you had such a batch. You see, the mail has beaten your slow steamer in and everyone is

ers, which delighted Judy, as she felt quite responsible for her beloved city and wanted her friends to like it as much as she did. T

tful looking old women. Everyone seemed to be in a good humor and no one in much of a hurry except th

e!" exclaimed Mrs. Brown.

ieve he is right. Paris smells better than New York, although I like the smell in New York, too; but Paris has a strange fre

ghed Molly, "with he

its beautiful bridges, its innumerable boats, and its quays with the historic secondhand book stalls where Edwin Green had looked forward to walking with h

out, for before you know it we will be in the aristocratic Faubourg St. Germain,-and then the Luxembourg Gardens,-and here we are at our

. It was a very imposing looking house and Mrs. Brown wondered at a woman being able to conduct such a huge affair. She expressed her s

the most. Of course we do not think that they are the swellest, since we are on the seventh floor ourselves. Who so truly swell as we?" Judy got o

. Papa says, 'Look after the tips and the legitimate expenses will look after themselves.' So I look after the tips and trust to l

hem under her protecting wing, giving them to understand that with her they had nothing more to fear or worry about; and as Molly and her mother had nothing in particular to worry about and certainly nothing to fear, t

n up a bit with some soap and water and then go out for a walk with Miss Julia Kean. Mrs. Brown had reckoned without her host, however, as the intrepid Mrs. Pac

igued and ill. Bed is the best place for you, bed and quiet. Mi

r suitcases and got out their kimonos and, despite their feeble protest, had actually undressed them and put them t

erous tread on the stairs; then she crept softly to the Browns' door and gently o

boss as the redoubtable Mrs. Pace! Did you see her undo my belt and take off my skirt? I could not have felt more like a child if my waist had been a pinafore instead

ll never be able to," said Judy. "I defied her f

at had been forcibly removed only five minutes before. "I see you have sneaked in our letters and I, for one, am going to read mine,

ate to try to see the pictures in the Gallery of the Luxembourg and, after all, they had the winter before them. And now that she was out on the street,

ght. 'It is best to rest after a trip whether you feel tired or not, as the reaction after a journey is oblige

ag the fact from me in the presence of the dragon, even if I am wea

h to "requiescat in pace," you do as she says to do. I have defied her from the first and now I am rated as an undesirable boarder. Had it not been that she was wild to have you with her because of your rela

an excellent house in a most desirable quarter and she caters to Americans. You will notice that the food is much more American than

to learn how to ask for these things in the most Frenchy style. What is the use in coming to Pa

ut me in Mrs. Pace's house and I have been determined not to worry them about changing, but I am 'most dead of her and her ways. Do s

our room?" asked Mrs. Brown

now he always eats as though the train would not wait. At every meal she remarked on it and one day said at dinner: 'This is veal, Mr. Kean, and should be thoroughly masticated.' Whereupon he put down his knife and fork and, looking her solemnly in the eye, said: 'That is good advice no doubt for ordinary mortals, but after long years in railro

her, let's look around for an apartment and go to housekeeping immediately. I am sorry we told Elise O'Brien about

e to tell her of their voyage and the pleasant people they had met. She was much interested in the fact that Miss O'Brien was to be at the a

I feel sure the poor girl would be happy, and if you would all fit in together and be congenial, I really think

to ask Elise, but of course had to wait for you to suggest it. We could divide the expenses

might take Elise in and give her a pleasant home. I promise to be real good and get on w

thought it best to stay a fortnight in their present quarters so they could look well about them; she also wanted to see her old friend and cousin, the Marqui

k anything of her; but I have an idea old Sally could not change. I remember her as being a great harum-scarum but with the best hear

ook like, Mothe

ing makes one fancy a likeness even if there is none; but Sally had your eyes and your chin. She took life much more lightly than my Molly does, saw a jest where none was intended and sometimes cracked a joke when seriousness would have bee

re and felt that that lady would be fully capable of treating her as though Elise were necessary to the housekeeping scheme to help out the financial end; a

ill in Antwerp getting their fill of the pictures to be seen there. They were uncertain how long it would take them

d off the elevator on the fifth floor and gently but firmly admonished them for their disobedience. Molly noticed her mother's heightening color and her quivering nostrils and remembered with a smile what Aunt Mary, their old cook, always said to them when they were child

be here two weeks, I must not do anything to make it more difficult. But did you ever

u could get ahead of the fabulous monster in open combat. She is, afte