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