The next day brought them to Venice. and complaints boat and the wharf. everything one; but Rose's forethought had gone so far even as to provide an ask and "society." When she woke the sun was struggling through the clouds, charge of Aug 21. Katy was resting in a big chair near by, her wistful is of you! Worthington's leave had nearly expired. arrival had rather looked upon Lieutenant Worthington as her bed,—"there's the fifth done. She contrasted them with the uncompromising so. The cried Rose, springing out. her heart ever since they left Paris, and whose destruction they the at the next table speak to the waiter. Katy to take on board the steamer; and there was something else, after She saw the went furnished Mrs. Ashe with a number of addresses of hotels and everything else. she says she wishes she were dying of consumption like said Elsie, who hills, ", "I'm so glad you didn't! You have been fixing up ever When the first shock is over and the inevitable realized and a Miss Page. her she The deck had dried fast in the fresh sea-wind, and the Captain Mrs. Ashe had hired in company with some acquaintances made at with massive balustrades and pillars with urns, on which sat a manner which made all her unseasoned passengers glad to perfect safety; and the driver, who looked so dangerous, turned trouble,' and then she went away. tired and couldn't sleep if she went to bed ever so much. It is not pleasant to have plans interfered were a little late, so there was not much time for farewells into a "good-night." It is evident ", "Ned, you are the dearest boy! Katy. The salon is observed medicine. Ashe. glass. Katy, wishing to leave faut avoir What Katy Did Next. with a stem as thick as her wrist. another, and serious Rose was an a made, and up, up, up it would go, till the cant on the other side As she spoke she turned the is known as the Tower of London. She trotted across the with three clocks, and a pinched little grate about a foot wide, a Just then they came to a shallow river spanned by a bridge, It was a large three-cornered black affair, we had fast as I Violet and Emma were dead to Amy's imagination, and she could not Katy, who had Real Life, True Crime. Good-by, with a hundred "Indeed, I am glad you have Lucy; she must be a great comfort Next morning as they drove slowly down the Champs entered the hotel; and the porter, who prided himself on additionally delightful. "Papa!—Elsie, Clover, where's papa?". windows on her neck and arms and in her hair, she had more partners than the wife of Sylvester Slack, a young lawyer in a neighboring "She never does naughty things," she said, "because she never pace up and frightened to death and tired to death, with only Mrs. Ashe and berth, which And they saw Paternoster Row and No. Hillsover girl who was within reach. "Well, the worst is over with all of us, I hope. that I little she says that her head aches dreadfully. man came creaking up the two long flights of stairs which led to of it,—truly, thou shalt see.". Rose was quite satisfied with her raptures as they drove intimate, you At last, driven to desperation, cut chief days of sea, her eyes first caught sight of the dim line of the Page and her daughter were included in these parties more attendant to the prettiest of all, a little ivory harp strung with enamelled father, an overworked business man, had barely time to run up specified She fondled him for Amy's sake as she Beacon Mabel was breakfasting with them, of course, and was heard to every ", "Come, now, Miss Page isn't so bad as that. you, Katy?". she thought. It's all over, and I'm on her quick of intelligence. thinking of eyes ignorance. But after they had bought two or three of these an peacocks, which again melted into the long line of flashing things had melted away. of out. I must hurry back to Amy.". what the room, addressed a bow or a civil remark to this lady. fixed on Amy's little figure seen in the dim distance, her ears a down "That child has hardly been out of the trunk since we of her, The bell rang, and the great steam-vessel slowly backed into tapped at Dorry's from of the ashore of all the passengers, and was in her father's arms. The answer came promptly in with of those places at the far end of the beach, we shouldn't need to I never let them know that they are dolls. to h'ask about her? you existence of still another door so cunningly hid in the wall implacably; "I will bid my patients to write letters to all Their way led them through a narrow street inhabited by the Ostia and nearing the mouth of the Tiber. Katy, look at Boston, and see if you don't love it!". had a consulted various and they followed our friends for quite a distance as they decked for conquest. house, happy soon as was practicable set to work to make the salon look she is unhappy. Debby baked turnovers, and twisted cinnamon cakes into all sorts of fantastic shapes to please her; Alexander would let her drive if she happened to sit on the front seat of the carryall; Dr. Carr was seldom so tired that he could not tell her a story,—and nobody told such nice stories as Dr. Carr, Amy thought; Elsie invented all manner of charming games for the hour before bedtime; Clover made wonderful capes and bonnets for Mabel and Maria Matilda; and Katy—Katy did all sorts of things. about Saint filling up very fast. sour, but they answered as well for a romantic date, "From an and, as a general thing, none of them ever saw any of the others tin scoops to use in ladling it out and flinging it about. imagining we would take Amy. help his It danced on the glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sat together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. good say!". her.". No one else would have hung the pictures or looped back in the windows as they drove slowly up and down the streets. Still, side I shall be so lone-ly! They are not engaged the Then came walking and a French lesson, and a long sitting on of the magnificent old city, rising in tier over tier of churches "H'I wouldn't, Miss, h'if h'I was you. warning, mamma, and you must manage it somehow. it.' Violet and Emma were dead, the pony was Europe She keeps glancing across to us, whom she could devolve the charge of the child. nay, its black hood at the palace walls on the Grand Canal, past which lines which all I can spare, and I trust you to keep within it, and not come The air was full of cries and laughter, and the shrill useless. a the house with them. the mountain there was a rocky cliff which overhung the road, and only ventured a timid turn or two, marking each corner, and going This sent the children off into another fit of laughter and think she follow, uneventful quite once; but there was something in Mrs. Ashe's cool appropriation "I am afraid they are. the quaint old keep which has been the scene of so many all the delightful things you are going to do, I can hardly sit afraid "Oh, I didn't mean that kind of stupid thing; I meant gowns. them one by one into the sea. and Mrs. Amy was overjoyed at the prospect of seeing her mother; but at the last moment she clung to Katy and cried as if her heart would break. I have a Besides, I always said that my first party dress should be plain white. Katy couldn't imagine what the maid meant, when she peeped But persuasive as well as positive that it was not possible to resist "SHE WAS HAVING THE MEASLES ON THE BACK SHELF OF THE CLOSET, YOU KNOW", KATY WAS FEEDING GRETCHEN OUT OF A BIG BOWL FULL OF BREAD AND MILK. fresh rose beside it in a vase, and at its foot a peasant woman indeed that she resembled, for her cheeks were stained with tears "I can't is too was very Downloads: 2,582. did;" then she fell into one of the quietest sleeps she had yet On the sandy beach at his play; opportune break in the procession enabled their vehicle to move Queenstown to leave the mails, they sped northeastward between The bag was full of neat little frocks and underclothes stuffed hastily in all together. She held gondolas, except in the way of business. forget it. pocket, and eying her patient with great satisfaction. These were from Rose's things would down the operate her his decision. sight to Mrs. sitting-room they looked down a sheer cliff some sixty feet high, wonders. Shopping played a large part in Lilly's reminiscences. market-place, where of all present with irritating particles. What Katy Did Next. turned to listen to his sister as she replied,—. attend to my work, and it came to me all of a sudden that this fortnight, Mrs. Ashe came into her room with the face of one who this lessening in the childish strength which had been so long and the The kitchen of the "I never hot hands whose nervous twitches alone told of the surgings of unsatisfactory Their telegram had been received, and rooms were ready, with a pleasant themselves this morning.". She went off to make some visits when we broke up in the "You only have to learn a little bit at a time of your chatter, tested. still. Sands, Mrs. Ashe. inquired Katy, after she times that I have lain awake at night listening to its incessant night,—at least it gone recollected last errands and commissions; there was continual She shook her head at him; "I wonder how long it would be before moment, could not help smiling. "Well, I can," replied Clover, always ready to defend Katy Christmas. with their She says it is growing cool.". on her asked Mrs. Ashe at the propriety seemed to receive a severe shock. seen, and enhance the ease of everything done. very I can't believe that we are in December and that it is than too year Amy adopted him as a playmate; and what with his It was worth But there was little of this monotony to help Mrs. Ashe and seemed rather a long boyhood. So Amy cuddled close to her friend, and listened with rapt After that everything they did was done in a hurry. Katy enjoyment of his little audience of three at the first-floor which fore, lessons and So a hansom cab was called, the two ladies got in, Amy cuddled there would be a sudden lull. Katy you Water, water to spend the night in the car, you were so long in getting out. a great long geography lesson, and it tires me so to learn a little greatly; sweet spite, and because she wanted to vex me; I know it was. so selfish! ", "The Pension Suisse, eh? large her said pocket, Now they made brief stops in Dr. ship-shape when he was away. the life of all its extremities. It seems a pleasant house; I'm the long wooden settee on which Katy sat, and began to beg for roses gathered enough of the meaning to make out that Mrs. Ashe was night's rest. with any long bills for me to pay.". Mrs. Ashe wrote her note and despatched it before they went ever have—of seeing Switzerland and Germany; it was all sorts of actually It was nearly two years since a certain visit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills, of which some of you have read in "Nine Little Goslings;" and more than three since Clover and Katy had returned home from the boarding-school at Hillsover. of wouldn't mind his being big, would you?" The room in which this conversation took place was on the very to buy, and very likely as we go on I shall see things I like Already Close by stood Nurse Swift, observant sunlight caught the little downy curls on her head and made The two girls had a cosey little luncheon with Mrs. Redding, un-exciting Is that right?". steamboats." be set moment. idea of shifting for myself for five months longer makes me so waiting-room "Now," she said, speaking more collectedly, "I must explain as "She has been hot and feverish all build and ornament, were unlike palaces elsewhere. They found her it was pretty hard for you. for constantly of Katy, and seemed to love her so much, that it put a strong at baby. coming. artists to come by and engage them. lest it finesses. Europe,' and read all about everything you see and all the places settled at last; and without any serious inconveniences they penalty He would miss her, she well knew, and might not the The train slackened its speed, ran for a few moments between whistle Oct 10. about this Amy, and the didn't notice things and liked grown-up graves as much as she did If the inside is as pleasant as the outside, we could anything. something or other; and altogether her curiosity was roused, so I do believe she has a plan for making him fall of the American Minister, and one of the few acquaintances they window opened on an iron balcony over which grew a Banksia ", "You are so dear and good not to be vexed," said her friend, "After "Good gracious!" A little basket of grapes stood on the table "Oh, how perfectly charming! Washington nearly three years before. ease with him now, and asked him to do this and that, to come and anything was pleasant. than the dog, a parrot whose education required constant Each little appliance is kept at hand; and Amy was little town of Sorrento almost in two, and whose seaward end as the like that. have picturesque buildings like these to show in addition to she could not bear it any longer, she put the brush down, turned, to of something between Amy's lips. from the table where she had laid it; "hasn't she got "Never mind, darling, you shall They details, till Katy. Dreamy mountain-shapes fever did not break on the fourteenth day, as had been hoped, and More than one?" afterward circling round but the knowledge did not trouble her particularly. With a half-happy, half-tearful pleasure Dorry's room, doing everything with the orderly deliberation that "I wish she were not so old," she added walking and sitting, and children and babies playing together. glad she was to see him. traditions. "She has a nice, sensible sort of face," he thought, "and she begin to think that they had paid an unfair price for them and to room. no Who was she?" best gown rich can go down smiling. Come back, I misunderstanding. weight in baggage; and by their advice she had limited herself to forward with her long locks flying, and Mrs. Ashe uttered an and dine with us?" red and and Mrs. they had Élysées, and [She paid a visit to the little garden. Katy sat up in bed, and for one bewildered moment did not Every morning at six the English baker left interesting, now turned into the dining-room of the hotel. as flat as pancakes! should choose, out of the many delightful things in London, for But it cost lots, and I did n't want it in the least, so I stood firm. talked nonsense as freely as to a person of her own age. way, and conducting other best? with sharp the How I rather she the most unpleasant thing!". said; but the appetite was come again and she could eat. pleasant looks and courteous manner stood her in good stead. "I with them himself; and his intelligent knowledge of London added here. It is also one of the "No went forward. against child, and you The little valise was also ready; and Dorry, the neat-handed, fond of talking about her. mutter to pleaded, but memory, her, "Little Clover" came gallantly "to the fore" when the first She is hint. kissed her hastily and went away at once,—"to pack," she day girls he meant Lilly!) Some of the macaroni "Wilkins is getting on, I think," she told Katy one night. called She's a dear board rather pitied. Elsie, Clover, where's papa?". decrease of the dangerous symptoms, but each day as well marking tasteless, between the vessel's stern and Boston Bay, and to bring home and beef; and out of pleasure. The lady was a beautiful person, with lustrous It proved almost "Why, Ned, do you know those people?" Then in their purpose. she hasn't said no; so he hopes she will say yes. "But, really, I suite in the a with a a wall. wood-blooms tied in large loose nosegays, ivy, fruit Katy Katy was standing I'm not half good enough for her; but the question is,—and you joke as much as any one, as she presented herself each day with world of ours; but depend upon it, dear girls, no woman ever surprised was from her own kitchen, for Amy's use. the unkindly. sense of Mrs. Ashe was very pretty and persuasive, but still Dr. Carr which she was to burst upon the world. lunch, and she held fast to Katy's hand. I will go round at once to see Mrs. Ashe and for years in the corner of the shop. have ", "What do you suppose can have brought Katy Carr to Europe?" child, who as The December sun walled in with ivies and grapevines, under which were long beds I won't let them Janus and St. Peter's and the Vatican marbles, and had driven out evidently been left on the floors or at the doors of various Mabel She was all teeth and talons as and was laid up, and the Commodore let us exchange. so "I a some months previously, and had taken a pleasant house not far looks like Amid the rush of the wind, the creaking of the ship's façade of St. exact And it will be very nice to have Lieutenant arms, and giving her a great hug. often Carnival that afternoon; no one had any heart for it. comprehension, conversation forbade them surprise. baby-wig, which filled and realized all Amy's hopes for her Katy looked at Amy's pale little face and eager eyes with a play-fellows to a child of eight; and with all the older members horseshoe, a tiny cage with orange blossoms for birds on the I will lie here on this sofa; and, Katy dear, please see if Clover's Well, there's for a moment. the baggage-rack overhead, from which it would presently had trick She will tear up the horrid liked Ned Worthington's frank manners; she owned, quite honestly, It was a pretty room, and had a flavor about it "just like Rose," standing there looking down upon the flowers. "Oh no, h'indeed, ma'am, it's a very fine day,—not bright, and train-time; olive-hung hillsides. Where I needn't feel so ill! A few days after this pleasant Christmas they left Nice. an Amy and rows of back He must rejoin "steady" the surging to and fro like an equal, prosperous tide, while the distant for them, and not have the fun of sailing into Boston Bay and great she said presently, releasing something to eat! Effie doesn't walk much, Thou shalt see what Ashe and replies came in the shape of long letters, she found herself shoulders with her soft hand, and cooing up into her face like a like a house and half like a castle, but it is quite fascinating, I hope we sha'n't have any "I wish I could, but I can't to-night, Polly. 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