Little Eve Edgarton

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Capitolo 41

sisters? And don't you also know where they is? Because, I don't also have never
had a friend of girl in all of my life!"

Incredulously she lifted him confused eyes to his. "And you have a
house?" her the faltered. "And won't you hold him/it? A truth--really
house? And don't you also know that color that is? You don't also know
what color that Your his/her own room is? And I know the name of every house-varnish
there is in the world", she murmured, "and the name of each
you wall-carpet there is in the world and the name of every carpet, and
the name of every curtain and the name of--everything. And I don't have
found at all some house--"

Without the slightest to warn, she tarred in before then surprisingly,
suddenly on his/her face and it placed grabbing in the grassy carpet--a small
dust-colored wisp of a figure of boy that he/she sobs out his/her dead heart of hunger
against a dust-colored earth.

"Because--what is the matter!" Gasped Barton. "Because!--Because--his/her Child!" A lot
laboriously with his/her numbed hands, with his strange, lethargic
legs, he got thin sends a small up to him you/he/she could contact only her
shoulder. "Because--his/her Child!" he rather clumsily caressed him. "Because, Jokes--does her
half--"

Slowly through the Eve of obscurity Edgarton came crawling to his/her side.
Solemnly she lifted his/her eyes to Barton. "I will tell him anything
that Mother told me", she murmured. "This is it:  'Your father is the
the most greater part of marvelous man that you/he/she has ever lived', my mother talked to low voice completely to me
separately. 'But he will never manufacture any house for you--except in his
arm;  and that is the abundance House-enough for a wife--but not almost
House-enough for a daughter! And--and--"

"Because, you tell him/it as if you knew him/it from heart", suspended Barton.

"Because, I clearly know him/it from heart!" small Eve almost plants Edgarton
eagerly. "My mother talked him/it to me to low voice, I tell him! The things that
people shout to you--You forgetful in half a night. But the things that
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