Capitolo 79
"Boston?" its sweet voice trembled. "Boston? Because you look this way
beautiful--certainly you are not that mysterious men that are troubling
Mollie so horribly these past days. I told her any good person
ever comes of his/her going to the city."
"Irritating Molly?" Cried Stanton. "Irritating _my_ Molly? ME? Because, it is
do never prevent anybody in the wide and whole world from the to trouble her/it
again around--anything, that I have now come here!" he rashly persisted.
"And it doesn't do you he/she sees--we had a small misunderstanding and--"
In the cheek of avoria of the small old lady walked to on all four a small, bright,
blush-stain.
"Oh, you had a small misunderstanding", she slightly repeated. "A
small dispute? Oh, it is that because so a lot of Molly is ever crying
from when she returned home?"
Very softly she contacted out her the small one, blue-veined hand, and it turned
The great body of Stanton around so that the smote of the lamp-light him to straight angle on
his/her face.
"Is it a good boy?" she asked. "It is you good enough for--my--little
Molly?"
Impulsively Stanton grabbed his/her small hands in his great one, and
them elevated very softly to his/her lips.
[The illustration: "it is a good boy?" she asked]
"Oh, the small grandmother" of small Molly, he said; "anybody on the face
of this earth covered with snow is good enough for Your Molly, but he/she doesn't want
does it give me an opportunity? Could not you/he/she give me please an opportunity? Now--this
minute? Is it so very sick?"
"No, she is not so very sick, or, she is not ill in bed", mused the
old the lady's waveringly. "You are well enough to be sitting above in her great
chair in front of his/her open fire."
"Great chair--open fire?" Stanton set questions to. "Are there then, two chairs?"
he casually asked.
"Because, yes", he/she answered to his/her small-grandmother in surprise.
"And a mantelpiece with a clock on him?" him the probed.
The eyes of his/her/their small-grandmother opened wide and they with amazement.
"Yes", she said, "but the clock has not gone for forty years!"