Capitolo 45
steeply.
The girl frankly answered equally again to his/her question, and without
offense. "Oh, no", she said. "Only very definite."
"Done determine around that that?" Barton sneered despite him.
"Determined on an attic", small Eve spoken to goslow mode Edgarton.
With an unusual touch of the vivacity she threw out a hand in a small,
acute gesture of appeal; but not a tone of his/her voice or it hastened
or it deepened.
"Because, the Mr. Barton", she hummed, "I am thirty years old--and since then me
it was born me I am traveling all over the world--in a trunk of steamboat.
In a trunk of steamboat, you mind her. With Father that is standing on always each
packaging to make sure himself/herself/themselves that we never bring anything that--it is not
necessary. With Father, I said", she king-emphasized from a sudden
the separate being. "You know Father!" she meaningfully added.
"Yes--I know 'his/her Father, Barton " consented with amazing glibness.
Once more the girl it threw out his/her hand in an incongruous gesture of
appeal.
"The things that Father thinks are necessary!" she slightly exclaimed.
Silently as a shade she got thin direct in the light up to
she almost faced to straight angle Barton. "Perhaps you think that it is amusing, Mr.
Barton", she whispered. "Perhaps you think that it is amusing--to thirty of
age--with all of Your faculties intact--not to possess anything in the world
except--except a trunkful of the steamboat of the things that Father thinks I am
necessary!"
Very carefully on the fingers of a hand she started to enumerate
the articles in question. "Only Your togs" of the horseback riding, she said, "and you are
suits of underclothes--and the whole United States compares to console--and
two or three suits of wash and two 'good enough' the suits--and a lot
quinine--and--a crushed hat--and--and--" Very weakly the ghost of a
smile went sparkling on its lips--"and whatever microscopes and
champion-case they have crowded out some trunk of Father. What is the use, Mr.
Barton", she questioned, "of expense one whole year that investigates the