Page 86 - The Little sister of Wilifred

those palmy clays and the present less
painful,

11 You ’11 take your time about it, I
expect," snapped Mrs. Bagiev. “ Chil­

dren from ’sy 3 urns', that folks bring up
to be a lie Ip to ’em; are always slow

growers. Well, as I was saying, we
geurls had every advantage. 1 could

have gone to Europe and taken lessons
of the old masters if I ’d wanted to, but

1 was always retiring. T h a t’s been the
trouble with me, or I should have made

my mark long ago. Seems ’s if ’t was
an awful sacrifice to have gone an' mar­

ried Bagley, bat 't is as is< I ’spcct
the powers that be must have seen

he could never have got along by

himself,"
And now, suddenly, Mrs. Bagley rc>
surned her usual manner, saying crossly,

“ Bagley 1 He don't no more care