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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Julia The Apostate, by Josephine Daskam
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+Title: Julia The Apostate
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+Author: Josephine Daskam
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+Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23367]
+Last Updated: March 8, 2018
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JULIA THE APOSTATE ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+JULIA THE APOSTATE
+
+By Josephine Daskam
+
+Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons
+
+
+“You don't think it's too young for me, girls?”
+
+“Young for you--_par exemple!_ I should say not,” her niece replied,
+perking the quivering aigrette still more obliquely upon her aunt's
+head. Carolyn used _par exemple_ as a good cook uses onion--a hint of it
+in everything. There were those who said that she interpolated it in the
+Litany; but Carolyn, who was born Caroline and a Baptist, was too much
+impressed by the liturgy of what she called The Church to insert even an
+uncanonized comma.
+
+“Now don't touch it, Aunt Julia, for it's deliciously chic, and if you
+had your way you'd flatten it down right straight in the middle--you
+know you would.”
+
+Miss Trueman pursed her lips quizzically.
+
+“I've always thought, Carrie--_lyn_,” she added hastily, as her niece
+scowled, “that they put things askew to make 'em different--for a
+change, as you might say. Now, if they're _never_ in the middle, it's
+about as tiresome, isn't it?”
+
+Elise, whose napkin-ring bore malignant witness to her loving aunt,
+Eliza Judd, laughed irrepressibly: she had more sense of humor than her
+sister. It was she who, though she had assisted in polishing the old
+copper kettle subsequently utilized as a holder for the tongs and
+shovel, had refused to consider the yet older wash-boiler in the light
+of a possible coal-scuttle, greatly to the relief of her aunt, who
+blushed persistently at any mention of the hearth.
+
+She patted the older woman encouragingly.
+
+“That's right, Aunt Ju-ju, argue it out!” she advised.
+
+Miss Trueman winced. She had never accustomed herself to those senseless
+monosyllables that parodied her name; nor could she understand the frame
+of mind that found them preferable to the comfortable “Aunt Jule” of the
+old days.
+
+“Ju-ju!” Strips of unwholesome flesh-colored paste, sugar-sprinkled,
+dear to her childish heart but loathed by a maturer palate, rose to her
+mind. There had been another haunting recollection: for months she
+had been unable to define it perfectly, though it had always brought a
+thrill of disgust with its vague appeal. One day she caught it and told
+them.
+
+“It was that dreadful creature Mr. Barnum exhibited,” she declared,
+“that we didn't allow the children to go to see--Jo-jo, the Dog-faced
+Boy! You remember?”
+
+Their cold horror, briefly expressed, had shown her that she had
+trespassed too far on their indulgence, and she spoke of it no more, but
+the memory rankled.
+
+“It's so strange you don't see how cunning it is,” Carolyn complained;
+“everybody does it now. The whole Chatworth family have those names,
+Aunt Ju, and it is the dearest thing to hear the old doctor call Captain
+Arthur 'Ga-ga.' You know that dignified sister with the lovely silvery
+hair? Well, they all call her 'Looty.' And nobody thinks of Hunter
+Chatworth's real name--he's always 'Toto.'”
+
+“And he has three children!”
+
+Miss Trueman sighed; the constitution of the modern family amazed her
+endlessly. Ga-ga, indeed!
+
+“Do the children call him Toto, too?” she demanded, with an attempt at
+sarcasm, a conversational form to which she was by nature a stranger.
+
+“Oh, I don't know about that,” Carolyn answered carelessly. “I suppose
+not. Though plenty of children do, you know. Mrs. Ranger's little girl
+always calls her mother Lou.”
+
+“Mrs. Ranger--you mean the woman that smokes?”
+
+Miss Trueman's tone brought vividly to the mind a person dangling from
+disgusted finger-tips a mouse or beetle.
+
+“For heaven's sake, Aunt Jule”--in moments of intense exasperation they
+reverted unconsciously to the old form--“don't speak of her as if she
+smoked for a living!”
+
+“I should rather not speak of her at all,” said Miss Trueman severely.
+
+They raised their eyebrows helplessly: Carolyn's irritation was so
+unfeigned that she omitted a justly famous shrug.
+
+For two years they had devoted an appreciable part of their busy hours
+to modifying Aunt Julia's antique prejudices, developing in her the
+latent aesthetic sense that their Wednesday art class taught them
+existed in every one, cajoling her into a tolerance of certain phases
+of modern literature considered seriously and weekly by the Monday
+Afternoon Club, and incidentally utilizing her as a chaperon and
+housekeeper in their modest up-town apartment.
+
+The first six months of her sojourn had been almost entirely occupied
+with accustoming herself to the absence of an attic and a cellar; long
+days of depression they learned, finally, to trace to this incredible
+source. Later she dealt with the problem of subsisting from eight till
+one on two rolls and a cup of coffee; successfully, in the ultimate
+issue, as surreptitious bits of fried ham and buckwheat cakes, with
+suspicious odors, winked at discreetly by her nieces, witnessed. It
+would have been unkind, as Elise suggested, to criticise Aunt Ju-ju's
+performances at the ungodly hour of seven in the morning, when their own
+correctly Continental repast, flanked by a chrysanthemum in a tall
+vase, not only tallied so accurately with their digestive and aesthetic
+necessities, but appeared, moreover, with such gratifying regularity one
+hour later.
+
+Both Carolyn and her sister had inherited from their mother, Miss
+True-man's older sister, a real gift for teaching, and this, rather than
+their respective abilities in art and music, enabled them to impart
+very successfully the elements of these necessary branches to the young
+ladies of a fashionable boarding-school just outside the city.
+
+It was politely regretted by their friends that they were unable to
+give themselves unreservedly to the exercise of their art without the
+cramping necessity for teaching; but it is probable that both the girls
+estimated their not too extraordinary talents very sensibly, though far
+from displeased by a more flattering judgment.
+
+Miss Trueman, who possessed the characteristic veneration of the bred
+and born New Englander for his native or imported school-ma'am, resented
+persistently their somewhat patronizing attitude toward the profession
+second only to the ministry in her stanch respect. A little of the
+simple grandeur of those childhood days when “the teacher boarded with
+them” clung with the ineradicable force of habit to her mind, and she
+could not understand their restive attitude at “the fine positions as
+teachers Hattie's girls have got.”
+
+“I'm sure you make more money than that Miss Seymour that gets her own
+meals in her room--she said so herself.”
+
+“Oh, well, there are other things to be considered, Aunt Ju; and,
+anyway, she's a real bohemian, Polly Seymour. There's a fascination in
+it.”
+
+“There's no fascination in being hungry that I can see, and she admitted
+that, L--Elise,” Miss Trueman insisted severely. “I don't understand how
+she could have done it--I would have died first. And she seemed to think
+it was a great joke to have her friends give her a dinner--I think it
+was terrible.”
+
+“Why, Aunt Jule, how ridiculous! We were delighted to do it--it was
+perfectly dear of her to let us, too. And think of the people we met
+there--Rawlins and Mr. Ware! You don't mind being poor if such men will
+come just out of interest in you, I tell you. Do you remember, Elise,
+how Mr. Rawlins called her 'little girl'? Mr. Ware lets her use his
+models whenever she likes, too,” Carolyn added respectfully.
+
+“Oh, she's bound to arrive!” Elise agreed.
+
+Aunt Ju-ju sniffed uncontrolledly.
+
+“I should hope she'd arrive at the point where she could buy her own
+dinners,” she remarked. “To be beholden for your bread”...
+
+Here were two points of view as little likely to coincide as the
+parallel lines of science, and at some such stage as this the
+discussions were wont to cease.
+
+To-day the apartment was swept and garnished for a social function
+long planned by the nieces. Carnations leaned from tall glass vases,
+intricate little cakes jostled carefully piled sandwiches, and a huge
+brass samovar, borrowed for the occasion, gave dignity to the small
+parlor. Miss Trueman had learned by now the unwritten law that prevented
+the various objects in the once proudly segregated “drawing-room set”
+ from association with each other, and made no attempt to correct their
+intentional isolation. The samovar she refused utterly to meddle with,
+assuring them that she would as soon think of running a locomotive.
+
+As the guests began to arrive Miss Trueman found herself regarding them
+even more critically than usual; an argumentative spirit rose in her,
+and her calm contradiction of Mrs. Ranger, who discussed with great
+subtlety the notable advantages--even from the artistic point of
+view--of the approaching spring when experienced in the city, in
+comparison with that be-rhymed season's vaunted country beauties,
+startled more than one person.
+
+“Just because they're more delicate, just because you must look harder
+to discover them, just because you must get as much from a pot of
+hyacinths on the Avenue as from a whole field of primroses in the
+backwoods, you know,” she concluded, and the little circle nodded sagely
+and congratulated themselves on an unpublished paragraph.
+
+“I don't agree with you, Mrs. Ranger,” said Aunt Ju-ju flatly, to the
+absolute amazement of her nieces and the tolerant amusement of the
+assembly. “I guess you haven't lived in the country much, or you
+wouldn't talk so. And primroses don't grow in fields here, anyway.
+If you could see my hyacinths and crocuses in round beds at home, you
+wouldn't mention those poor little stalks in the pots.”
+
+Mrs. Ranger laughed, and directed her searching, level glance at
+the older woman, who combined in her comely, undisguised middle age
+something at once more matronly and more childish than the analytic
+authoress could ever find in her own mirror.
+
+“Aha!” she cried, “then you are no friend of dear old Horace, after all,
+Miss Trueman! He and I, you see--”
+
+The relation of these two urbanites was revealed no further, for a
+bustle in the little hall drew attention to a newcomer unknown not
+only to the guests but evidently to the hostesses, who rose, smiling
+uncertainly, as a portly, broad-shouldered man with iron-gray hair made
+his way through the group about the samovar.
+
+“I'll have to introduce myself, I see,” he began, not precisely
+with what an exigent society calls ease of manner, but with a certain
+practical self-possession quite as effective.
+
+“I didn't expect the girls to remember me, but I thought perhaps you
+might, Julia.”
+
+Miss Trueman peered out from the shaded five-o'clock gloom so dear to
+Carolyn's soul.
+
+“I don't seem--it's not--why, Cousin Lorando Bean, it's not you?”
+
+“That's it,” he said heartily, “that's just exactly it. And he's mighty
+glad to see some of his relations again, I can tell you. And these are
+Carrie and Lizzie, I suppose. Well, well, fifteen years is a long time,
+even to an old fellow like me, and you girls were just beginning to be
+young ladies when I left Connecticut. How are you all?”
+
+If this simple greeting came like a breath of her native air to Miss
+True-man, it cannot be said to have had a similar effect on her nieces.
+Courtesy prevented a full expression of their feelings, but they
+affected no undue delight at the presence of their new-found
+relative--whom they had very sincerely forgotten, along with many other
+details of a somewhat inartistic youth--and turned to their other guests
+with a frank relief when they had established him, with a cup of tea, a
+sandwich, and Aunt Julia, in the near-by dining-room.
+
+“A third or fourth cousin, I believe, who has lived a long time in the
+West,” they explained. The company, some of whom doubtless possessed
+third or fourth cousins from the West, nodded comprehensively, and the
+interrupted function flowed smoothly on again.
+
+Cousin Lorando Bean balanced his cup on his broad palm and gazed about
+appreciatively at the casts and water-colors on the dull green walls.
+
+“Very snug little quarters, these,” he volunteered, “but, do you know,
+Cousin Jule, I suppose it's all right for ladies, but I don't seem to
+breathe extra well in these little rooms, somehow! I've been in two or
+three of them like this, more or less, since I came to New York--people
+I used to know that I've been hunting up--and, by George, I began to
+feel as if I was getting red in the face, if you see what I mean.”
+
+“Yes, indeed, Cousin Lorando, I do,” returned Miss Trueman eagerly, “I
+see exactly. And not having any cellar--you've no idea! Nor any
+attic, either. And often and often we have the gas lighted all through
+breakfast. Of course there are a great many conveniences,” she added
+loyally, “and there's no doubt it saves steps. But I almost think I'd
+rather take 'em.”
+
+He nodded.
+
+“What's become of the old place, Cousin Jule? I judge you've been out of
+it some time?”
+
+“Two years, Cousin Lorando. The girls had been boarding up to then, and
+when Aunt Martha died they got up this plan for me to come down and live
+with them, for they couldn't afford it quite, alone, and then I could
+chaperon them.”
+
+Aunt Julia delivered herself of this phrase with a certain complacency.
+Mr. Bean looked up sharply.
+
+“That means that nobody gets a show to abduct 'em while you're around, I
+take it?” he inquired.
+
+“We-ell, not exactly,” she demurred.
+
+“But that's the idea? I thought so. Yes. How old is Lizzie now? Thirty?”
+
+“Oh, no, Cousin Lorando; L---- Elise isn't twenty-nine yet. Carolyn is
+about thirty.”
+
+“I don't seem to recall any one chaperoning you and Hattie when you were
+thirty,” he suggested thoughtfully.
+
+She laughed involuntarily.
+
+“Oh, Hattie was married, Cousin Lorando, and the children were ten years
+old! And, anyway, it was different then.”
+
+“The girls were just as pretty, I guess,” he insisted. “And there were
+plenty of buggies, if anybody had designs.”
+
+There was a pause, and the buzz of voices from the other room rose
+loudly.
+
+“They've neither of them got their mother's looks,” he observed; and
+then, with apparent irrelevance: “When will they be considered safe to
+go about alone?”
+
+“I don't know exactly what you mean,” she began a little coldly, but his
+laugh reassured her.
+
+“Oh, yes, you do,” he contradicted, “and don't you be getting cross at
+your Cousin Lorando Bean! You know I always loved to tease you; it made
+your eyes snap--and it does now.”
+
+“How can you?” She looked reproachfully at him.
+
+“And I tell you this, Cousin Jule: neither of those girls will ever get
+up a color like that!”
+
+She shook her head, but she was not displeased. He took out a fat
+chocolate-colored cigar and fingered it wistfully.
+
+“I suppose I mustn't smoke?” he queried.
+
+Her quick answer surprised herself.
+
+“I should hope you could, if that woman can!”
+
+“Which one?”
+
+“That Mrs. Ranger, the one near the samovar--that big brass thing.
+Liz--Elise didn't introduce her to you. They don't introduce people the
+way they do at home, Cousin Lorando--I hope you didn't mind. They think
+it's awkward.”
+
+“Oh, Lord, no, I don't mind. I can spare her, anyway. She's checked up
+too high for me. But she can look you through pretty thoroughly, can't
+she?”
+
+“She writes books,” Miss Trueman returned, the finality of her tone
+indicating that she had explained any possible idiosyncrasy of the lady
+in question.
+
+“Oh, I see. And the little red-haired one, does she write books, too?”
+
+“No; she's an artist. She smokes too, though. Not cigars, like yours,
+but cigarettes. She's supposed to be a very good painter, but she
+doesn't make what Carrie--lyn makes. The girls have very good positions
+in Miss Abrams' school.”
+
+“Um, what do they get, now?”
+
+Miss Trueman mentioned the modest sum with pride.
+
+“And then with my money and what we get from the rent of the place--the
+girls and I each have a third, you know--we do very nicely.”
+
+“So you rented the place?”
+
+“Yes, Cousin Lorando, though I hated to. But I wouldn't sell it, though
+they wanted me to. I just couldn't.”
+
+“I know.”
+
+He lighted his cigar and puffed at it in meditative silence for a
+moment, while the babble from the parlor floated in with the odor of the
+Ceylon tea and cigarettes.
+
+“That's what I came about, Cousin Jule--the old place. You may think
+it's queer, for I never lived there but two years once, when father and
+your Uncle Joe farmed it on shares; but those two years just made it
+home to me. Of course Uncle Joe wasn't any real relation of mine, and
+you-all weren't my real cousins, but it was the only family I ever had,
+so to say, and I loved every one of you. Then we moved back into town;
+but you know I came in every week or so, and Aunt Martha used to have my
+room in the attic ready for me, just the same.”
+
+“Yes, I know; Aunt Martha never forgot you, Cousin Lorando.”
+
+“Well, it's fifteen years since I saw the old place, and a lot's
+happened since then, I tell you. First place, I'm a rich man, Cousin
+Jule.
+
+“Oh, I don't mean one of these multi-millionaires you have about here,
+for I haven't even seven figures opposite my name; but short of that
+I did very well for myself out West there, and I earned it all fair,
+too--though I was pretty lucky, and that counts.
+
+“Anyhow, never mind about that. Only I've got enough to have anything I
+want, and to give my friends something, too. So as soon as I got back.
+East I went straight down to the farm. But it was all shut up and a kind
+of green hedge where the fence used to be, and I judged it was sold, and
+I felt pretty sore about it, so I came right away.”
+
+“They only come there in June,” Miss Trueman explained, “and they go
+back before Thanksgiving.”
+
+“Yes. Well, I didn't know that.”
+
+He waited again for a few seconds, and Miss Trueman sat in respectful
+silence till he should continue.
+
+“You see, I'd been East once before, eight years ago, but I didn't see
+the farm then,” he said finally.
+
+“I got married while I was West.”
+
+His audience of one started slightly.
+
+“She's dead now,” he added abruptly.
+
+“Oh, Cousin Lorando--”
+
+“You needn't bother about the sympathy, my dear, for there's none
+needed. I hadn't been with her for a good while. I saw her in a
+concert-hall out there, and she had curly hair and a kind of taking way
+with her, and so I married her. I'd just made a big hit, and she wanted
+to come to New York, and we came. We went to a big hotel, and it was
+dress-suits for me and diamonds for her, and we drove in a carriage in
+the park in the afternoon. She liked it, but I soon got enough. I don't
+care much for that sort of thing. She wanted to go to the theatre and
+see the girls that she'd been one of, you see, from the other side of
+the curtain. And she saw a man there she used to know, and--well, it
+turned out she liked him better, that's all.”
+
+“Oh, Cousin Lorando, how terrible--for her!”
+
+“Um, yes. She didn't think it was specially terrible, I guess, though.
+She just packed up and went.”
+
+“Went?”
+
+“Yes--with him, you see. Diamonds and all. I got a divorce, of course.
+And she wasn't such a bad lot, after all, for he hadn't any money to
+speak of, compared to me. It was the man she wanted. Well, she got him.”
+
+“How awful!” Miss Trueman murmured.
+
+“Oh, yes, I felt pretty sick for a while. But we hadn't been any too
+happy before she saw him, you see. It was a big mistake. She wasn't
+exactly the kind of woman you'd be apt to know, you see. So perhaps I
+got off easier than I deserved. But I never would have married while she
+was alive. Not but what I had a right to, you understand, but I guess
+I'm old-fashioned more ways than one. I read about her death a year or
+so ago. I don't believe she had any too good a time herself. She had
+an awful temper. But she certainly did have pretty hair,” he concluded
+thoughtfully.
+
+Miss Trueman gasped.
+
+“So I didn't want to see New York again; I just hated the place. And
+this time I only came because I found out you and the girls were here,
+and you were about all there was left. People die so. And I wanted to
+find out about the old place. I wanted to buy it, if I could, when I
+thought it was sold.”
+
+“But, Cousin Lorando, I couldn't sell it!”
+
+“Oh, no, I s'pose not. Still, I might buy out the girls' thirds and rent
+yours, couldn't I? I'd pay you as much and more than anybody else would,
+I guess. And you could keep your interest. And keep half of the house,
+for that matter, to use when you wanted--it's big enough.”
+
+“Why, yes, I don't see why I couldn't do that,” she said thoughtfully.
+“That would be nice.”
+
+“You see, I'm willing to make any arrangement, Cousin Jule. It's about
+all there is that I'm fond of now, that old place. I haven't any folks
+of my own, and not a chick nor child, and I love every stick and stone
+of that farm. I love the country, and I love Connecticut country best
+of all, I don't care if it is rocky. You can't make farming pay in New
+England any more. But I don't need to make it pay; I'm willing to pay
+for the pleasure of it. And I want to do something for the town, too. I
+want 'em to be glad I came to settle there. Who's got the keys?”
+
+“I have, right here,” she answered. “The furniture is all ours, you see;
+they haven't brought much, only they've changed things all around. I
+haven't renewed the lease yet for this year.”
+
+“Well, now, look here, Jule,” Mr. Bean cried eagerly, dropping the end
+of his cigar into a bonbon-dish on the little side-table, “why don't you
+run right up there with me to-night, and we'll look it all over and
+sort of plan it out? We can go up on the six-thirty, and get there by
+half-past ten, and stop at the hotel, and be there all ready to look it
+over to-morrow. Now, how's that?”
+
+“Why, but, Cousin Lorando--I--there isn't time--I hadn't planned--”
+
+“Lord, neither had I, but what's the difference? If you want a thing
+done, go and do it yourself. Wouldn't you like to go? It's lovely
+up there; the spring's coming on fast, you know. I got lots of
+pussy-willow, and some little fellows told me there were May-flowers
+somewhere. You'll see more grass in a minute there than you can hunt up
+here in a week. Come on, Cousin Jule!”
+
+“I believe I will!” said Miss True-man, with conviction.
+
+“Just pack up a bag for your aunt, Carrie, while I get a cab,” said Mr.
+Bean from the doorway. “We're going up to the old place--I'm thinking of
+buying it. I expect we'll be back tomorrow.”
+
+“Your cousin appears to be a person of decision,” Mrs. Ranger suggested
+to the still dazed Elise, as the cab rolled away.
+
+“I don't understand Aunt Ju-ju at all,” Carolyn interpolated crossly.
+She had not been in the habit of packing her aunt's bag. “She usually
+makes such a fuss about starting to go anywhere--days ahead, in fact.
+And now at fifteen minutes' notice! And her best gown!”
+
+“It makes a difference, having a man to run it,” said the novelist
+sagely.
+
+When two days had passed and their aunt had not yet appeared, her nieces
+were not unnecessarily alarmed, for her attachment to her old home was
+great, and it required no unusual degree of imagination to picture
+her delighted lingering over the old things, her purposely prolonged
+transaction of business details. But four days of unexplained absence
+had its effect upon their own little ménage; and when a week's visit had
+been accomplished and their beseeching letters had elicited only vague
+postal cards explaining nothing, but suggesting their presence at the
+farm, they became convinced of the necessity for action on their part,
+and went, more or less in the presumable spirit of the mountain in
+search of the fractious Prophet.
+
+Tired and cross after four hours' travel on an incredibly hot 1st of
+April, they walked sternly up the board walk that led to the old-style
+porch, to be greeted by their cousin, who sat in snowy shirtsleeves,
+tilted back in his chair against the house, smoking his fat, dark cigar.
+
+“Welcome home, girls--glad to see you!” he called cheerily. “Here they
+are, Jule! Now don't be afraid, but come right out and see them!”
+
+“Why, bless your heart, Lorando, I'm not afraid,” a familiar voice
+answered; and Aunt Julia appeared before them, cool in blue checked
+gingham, with an enveloping white apron and familiarly floury hands.
+
+“I'm just beating up some biscuit for tea,” she explained, “but I guess
+you can shake hands with me, girls “; and as she extended both arms
+hospitably they saw upon her floured left hand an unmistakable shining
+gold band.
+
+“Aunt Jule!” they gasped together. “Are you--is it--”
+
+“That's it exactly,” said Cousin Lorando Bean. “She is. And I hope
+you'll congratulate her, girls, though nobody knows better than I what a
+good housekeeper you've lost! I'll tell you the facts of the matter, and
+you can judge for yourself. If ever two people were made for each other,
+those two are your Aunt Jule and me. We love the country, and we love
+this farm, and what's very important, we love the same way of living.”
+
+“That's quite true, Carrie--lyn,” Aunt Julia interposed, the tears in
+her eyes, but a new decision in her voice.
+
+“I like my tea at night, and so does your Cousin Lorando. And I should
+have wanted gravy on my potato if I lived to be a hundred. And, Carrie,
+I _could not live_ without a cellar!
+
+“And if you knew how nervous I got when that old dumb-waiter in the
+kitchen used to whistle for the things to be put on it! I used to hate
+it so--sometimes I'd wake up in the night and think I heard it! Once I
+lost my temper at it, and I answered it back: 'I haven't anything to go
+down, and I wouldn't give it to you if I had!'”
+
+“Why, Aunt Jule!” they cried.
+
+“And I tell you, Carrie, when you have cleaned house regularly, spring
+and fall, for forty years, ever since you were born, it makes an awful
+break to give it up! And I do love a good crayon portrait.”
+
+They looked at each other in silence.
+
+“And when you have a set of furniture, it makes me nervous not to have
+it set together,” Aunt Julia went on determinedly.
+
+“And I will _not_ have a woman smoking in my house!
+
+“And oh, Carrie, if you knew how I suffered with that dirty darky girl!”
+
+“But--but, Aunt Jule, why didn't you--”
+
+“You see, Carrie and Lizzie, it was this way,” said Mr. Bean soothingly.
+
+“Your aunt and I got talking old times, and we found that we both felt
+about the same. And after we'd looked the old house over together a day
+or two, she couldn't seem to leave it, somehow, and she couldn't live in
+it alone, and I always wanted it.
+
+“So I said, 'If you'll just step over to the parson's, across the
+street, with me, we'll fix this all right in about ten minutes. You've
+known me ever since I was a boy, and I've known you, and it's nobody's
+business but ours if we want to finish up together.' I may have said a
+few other things, too, but that's neither here nor there. And when she
+said what would the girls do, I told her that what with the full price
+of their interest in the farm, and her third that she could add to
+it--for a sort of wedding-present, you see--I didn't see but what you
+could well afford to take a trip to Europe and stay about as long as you
+liked--she said you wanted to do that more than anything; though why I
+don't know--Connecticut ought to be good enough for anybody!”
+
+They sank upon the porch steps, sincerely overcome.
+
+“I knew you'd like it when you came to know it all,” said Aunt Julia
+placidly. “He's the kindest man--”
+
+And to their excited eyes the very tidies on the geometrically arranged
+chairs, the bright rag rugs on the floor, the biscuits and preserves
+consecrated to their New England tea, yes, even the insistent
+shirt-sleeves of Cousin Lorando Bean, were lighted by a halo of content.
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Julia The Apostate, by Josephine Daskam
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+Title: Julia The Apostate
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+Author: Josephine Daskam
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+Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23367]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JULIA THE APOSTATE ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+JULIA THE APOSTATE
+
+By Josephine Daskam
+
+Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons
+
+
+"You don't think it's too young for me, girls?"
+
+"Young for you--_par exemple!_ I should say not," her niece replied,
+perking the quivering aigrette still more obliquely upon her aunt's
+head. Carolyn used _par exemple_ as a good cook uses onion--a hint of it
+in everything. There were those who said that she interpolated it in the
+Litany; but Carolyn, who was born Caroline and a Baptist, was too much
+impressed by the liturgy of what she called The Church to insert even an
+uncanonized comma.
+
+"Now don't touch it, Aunt Julia, for it's deliciously chic, and if you
+had your way you'd flatten it down right straight in the middle--you
+know you would."
+
+Miss Trueman pursed her lips quizzically.
+
+"I've always thought, Carrie--_lyn_," she added hastily, as her niece
+scowled, "that they put things askew to make 'em different--for a
+change, as you might say. Now, if they're _never_ in the middle, it's
+about as tiresome, isn't it?"
+
+Elise, whose napkin-ring bore malignant witness to her loving aunt,
+Eliza Judd, laughed irrepressibly: she had more sense of humor than her
+sister. It was she who, though she had assisted in polishing the old
+copper kettle subsequently utilized as a holder for the tongs and
+shovel, had refused to consider the yet older wash-boiler in the light
+of a possible coal-scuttle, greatly to the relief of her aunt, who
+blushed persistently at any mention of the hearth.
+
+She patted the older woman encouragingly.
+
+"That's right, Aunt Ju-ju, argue it out!" she advised.
+
+Miss Trueman winced. She had never accustomed herself to those senseless
+monosyllables that parodied her name; nor could she understand the frame
+of mind that found them preferable to the comfortable "Aunt Jule" of the
+old days.
+
+"Ju-ju!" Strips of unwholesome flesh-colored paste, sugar-sprinkled,
+dear to her childish heart but loathed by a maturer palate, rose to her
+mind. There had been another haunting recollection: for months she
+had been unable to define it perfectly, though it had always brought a
+thrill of disgust with its vague appeal. One day she caught it and told
+them.
+
+"It was that dreadful creature Mr. Barnum exhibited," she declared,
+"that we didn't allow the children to go to see--Jo-jo, the Dog-faced
+Boy! You remember?"
+
+Their cold horror, briefly expressed, had shown her that she had
+trespassed too far on their indulgence, and she spoke of it no more, but
+the memory rankled.
+
+"It's so strange you don't see how cunning it is," Carolyn complained;
+"everybody does it now. The whole Chatworth family have those names,
+Aunt Ju, and it is the dearest thing to hear the old doctor call Captain
+Arthur 'Ga-ga.' You know that dignified sister with the lovely silvery
+hair? Well, they all call her 'Looty.' And nobody thinks of Hunter
+Chatworth's real name--he's always 'Toto.'"
+
+"And he has three children!"
+
+Miss Trueman sighed; the constitution of the modern family amazed her
+endlessly. Ga-ga, indeed!
+
+"Do the children call him Toto, too?" she demanded, with an attempt at
+sarcasm, a conversational form to which she was by nature a stranger.
+
+"Oh, I don't know about that," Carolyn answered carelessly. "I suppose
+not. Though plenty of children do, you know. Mrs. Ranger's little girl
+always calls her mother Lou."
+
+"Mrs. Ranger--you mean the woman that smokes?"
+
+Miss Trueman's tone brought vividly to the mind a person dangling from
+disgusted finger-tips a mouse or beetle.
+
+"For heaven's sake, Aunt Jule"--in moments of intense exasperation they
+reverted unconsciously to the old form--"don't speak of her as if she
+smoked for a living!"
+
+"I should rather not speak of her at all," said Miss Trueman severely.
+
+They raised their eyebrows helplessly: Carolyn's irritation was so
+unfeigned that she omitted a justly famous shrug.
+
+For two years they had devoted an appreciable part of their busy hours
+to modifying Aunt Julia's antique prejudices, developing in her the
+latent aesthetic sense that their Wednesday art class taught them
+existed in every one, cajoling her into a tolerance of certain phases
+of modern literature considered seriously and weekly by the Monday
+Afternoon Club, and incidentally utilizing her as a chaperon and
+housekeeper in their modest up-town apartment.
+
+The first six months of her sojourn had been almost entirely occupied
+with accustoming herself to the absence of an attic and a cellar; long
+days of depression they learned, finally, to trace to this incredible
+source. Later she dealt with the problem of subsisting from eight till
+one on two rolls and a cup of coffee; successfully, in the ultimate
+issue, as surreptitious bits of fried ham and buckwheat cakes, with
+suspicious odors, winked at discreetly by her nieces, witnessed. It
+would have been unkind, as Elise suggested, to criticise Aunt Ju-ju's
+performances at the ungodly hour of seven in the morning, when their own
+correctly Continental repast, flanked by a chrysanthemum in a tall
+vase, not only tallied so accurately with their digestive and aesthetic
+necessities, but appeared, moreover, with such gratifying regularity one
+hour later.
+
+Both Carolyn and her sister had inherited from their mother, Miss
+True-man's older sister, a real gift for teaching, and this, rather than
+their respective abilities in art and music, enabled them to impart
+very successfully the elements of these necessary branches to the young
+ladies of a fashionable boarding-school just outside the city.
+
+It was politely regretted by their friends that they were unable to
+give themselves unreservedly to the exercise of their art without the
+cramping necessity for teaching; but it is probable that both the girls
+estimated their not too extraordinary talents very sensibly, though far
+from displeased by a more flattering judgment.
+
+Miss Trueman, who possessed the characteristic veneration of the bred
+and born New Englander for his native or imported school-ma'am, resented
+persistently their somewhat patronizing attitude toward the profession
+second only to the ministry in her stanch respect. A little of the
+simple grandeur of those childhood days when "the teacher boarded with
+them" clung with the ineradicable force of habit to her mind, and she
+could not understand their restive attitude at "the fine positions as
+teachers Hattie's girls have got."
+
+"I'm sure you make more money than that Miss Seymour that gets her own
+meals in her room--she said so herself."
+
+"Oh, well, there are other things to be considered, Aunt Ju; and,
+anyway, she's a real bohemian, Polly Seymour. There's a fascination in
+it."
+
+"There's no fascination in being hungry that I can see, and she admitted
+that, L--Elise," Miss Trueman insisted severely. "I don't understand how
+she could have done it--I would have died first. And she seemed to think
+it was a great joke to have her friends give her a dinner--I think it
+was terrible."
+
+"Why, Aunt Jule, how ridiculous! We were delighted to do it--it was
+perfectly dear of her to let us, too. And think of the people we met
+there--Rawlins and Mr. Ware! You don't mind being poor if such men will
+come just out of interest in you, I tell you. Do you remember, Elise,
+how Mr. Rawlins called her 'little girl'? Mr. Ware lets her use his
+models whenever she likes, too," Carolyn added respectfully.
+
+"Oh, she's bound to arrive!" Elise agreed.
+
+Aunt Ju-ju sniffed uncontrolledly.
+
+"I should hope she'd arrive at the point where she could buy her own
+dinners," she remarked. "To be beholden for your bread"...
+
+Here were two points of view as little likely to coincide as the
+parallel lines of science, and at some such stage as this the
+discussions were wont to cease.
+
+To-day the apartment was swept and garnished for a social function
+long planned by the nieces. Carnations leaned from tall glass vases,
+intricate little cakes jostled carefully piled sandwiches, and a huge
+brass samovar, borrowed for the occasion, gave dignity to the small
+parlor. Miss Trueman had learned by now the unwritten law that prevented
+the various objects in the once proudly segregated "drawing-room set"
+from association with each other, and made no attempt to correct their
+intentional isolation. The samovar she refused utterly to meddle with,
+assuring them that she would as soon think of running a locomotive.
+
+As the guests began to arrive Miss Trueman found herself regarding them
+even more critically than usual; an argumentative spirit rose in her,
+and her calm contradiction of Mrs. Ranger, who discussed with great
+subtlety the notable advantages--even from the artistic point of
+view--of the approaching spring when experienced in the city, in
+comparison with that be-rhymed season's vaunted country beauties,
+startled more than one person.
+
+"Just because they're more delicate, just because you must look harder
+to discover them, just because you must get as much from a pot of
+hyacinths on the Avenue as from a whole field of primroses in the
+backwoods, you know," she concluded, and the little circle nodded sagely
+and congratulated themselves on an unpublished paragraph.
+
+"I don't agree with you, Mrs. Ranger," said Aunt Ju-ju flatly, to the
+absolute amazement of her nieces and the tolerant amusement of the
+assembly. "I guess you haven't lived in the country much, or you
+wouldn't talk so. And primroses don't grow in fields here, anyway.
+If you could see my hyacinths and crocuses in round beds at home, you
+wouldn't mention those poor little stalks in the pots."
+
+Mrs. Ranger laughed, and directed her searching, level glance at
+the older woman, who combined in her comely, undisguised middle age
+something at once more matronly and more childish than the analytic
+authoress could ever find in her own mirror.
+
+"Aha!" she cried, "then you are no friend of dear old Horace, after all,
+Miss Trueman! He and I, you see--"
+
+The relation of these two urbanites was revealed no further, for a
+bustle in the little hall drew attention to a newcomer unknown not
+only to the guests but evidently to the hostesses, who rose, smiling
+uncertainly, as a portly, broad-shouldered man with iron-gray hair made
+his way through the group about the samovar.
+
+"I'll have to introduce myself, I see," he began, not precisely
+with what an exigent society calls ease of manner, but with a certain
+practical self-possession quite as effective.
+
+"I didn't expect the girls to remember me, but I thought perhaps you
+might, Julia."
+
+Miss Trueman peered out from the shaded five-o'clock gloom so dear to
+Carolyn's soul.
+
+"I don't seem--it's not--why, Cousin Lorando Bean, it's not you?"
+
+"That's it," he said heartily, "that's just exactly it. And he's mighty
+glad to see some of his relations again, I can tell you. And these are
+Carrie and Lizzie, I suppose. Well, well, fifteen years is a long time,
+even to an old fellow like me, and you girls were just beginning to be
+young ladies when I left Connecticut. How are you all?"
+
+If this simple greeting came like a breath of her native air to Miss
+True-man, it cannot be said to have had a similar effect on her nieces.
+Courtesy prevented a full expression of their feelings, but they
+affected no undue delight at the presence of their new-found
+relative--whom they had very sincerely forgotten, along with many other
+details of a somewhat inartistic youth--and turned to their other guests
+with a frank relief when they had established him, with a cup of tea, a
+sandwich, and Aunt Julia, in the near-by dining-room.
+
+"A third or fourth cousin, I believe, who has lived a long time in the
+West," they explained. The company, some of whom doubtless possessed
+third or fourth cousins from the West, nodded comprehensively, and the
+interrupted function flowed smoothly on again.
+
+Cousin Lorando Bean balanced his cup on his broad palm and gazed about
+appreciatively at the casts and water-colors on the dull green walls.
+
+"Very snug little quarters, these," he volunteered, "but, do you know,
+Cousin Jule, I suppose it's all right for ladies, but I don't seem to
+breathe extra well in these little rooms, somehow! I've been in two or
+three of them like this, more or less, since I came to New York--people
+I used to know that I've been hunting up--and, by George, I began to
+feel as if I was getting red in the face, if you see what I mean."
+
+"Yes, indeed, Cousin Lorando, I do," returned Miss Trueman eagerly, "I
+see exactly. And not having any cellar--you've no idea! Nor any
+attic, either. And often and often we have the gas lighted all through
+breakfast. Of course there are a great many conveniences," she added
+loyally, "and there's no doubt it saves steps. But I almost think I'd
+rather take 'em."
+
+He nodded.
+
+"What's become of the old place, Cousin Jule? I judge you've been out of
+it some time?"
+
+"Two years, Cousin Lorando. The girls had been boarding up to then, and
+when Aunt Martha died they got up this plan for me to come down and live
+with them, for they couldn't afford it quite, alone, and then I could
+chaperon them."
+
+Aunt Julia delivered herself of this phrase with a certain complacency.
+Mr. Bean looked up sharply.
+
+"That means that nobody gets a show to abduct 'em while you're around, I
+take it?" he inquired.
+
+"We-ell, not exactly," she demurred.
+
+"But that's the idea? I thought so. Yes. How old is Lizzie now? Thirty?"
+
+"Oh, no, Cousin Lorando; L---- Elise isn't twenty-nine yet. Carolyn is
+about thirty."
+
+"I don't seem to recall any one chaperoning you and Hattie when you were
+thirty," he suggested thoughtfully.
+
+She laughed involuntarily.
+
+"Oh, Hattie was married, Cousin Lorando, and the children were ten years
+old! And, anyway, it was different then."
+
+"The girls were just as pretty, I guess," he insisted. "And there were
+plenty of buggies, if anybody had designs."
+
+There was a pause, and the buzz of voices from the other room rose
+loudly.
+
+"They've neither of them got their mother's looks," he observed; and
+then, with apparent irrelevance: "When will they be considered safe to
+go about alone?"
+
+"I don't know exactly what you mean," she began a little coldly, but his
+laugh reassured her.
+
+"Oh, yes, you do," he contradicted, "and don't you be getting cross at
+your Cousin Lorando Bean! You know I always loved to tease you; it made
+your eyes snap--and it does now."
+
+"How can you?" She looked reproachfully at him.
+
+"And I tell you this, Cousin Jule: neither of those girls will ever get
+up a color like that!"
+
+She shook her head, but she was not displeased. He took out a fat
+chocolate-colored cigar and fingered it wistfully.
+
+"I suppose I mustn't smoke?" he queried.
+
+Her quick answer surprised herself.
+
+"I should hope you could, if that woman can!"
+
+"Which one?"
+
+"That Mrs. Ranger, the one near the samovar--that big brass thing.
+Liz--Elise didn't introduce her to you. They don't introduce people the
+way they do at home, Cousin Lorando--I hope you didn't mind. They think
+it's awkward."
+
+"Oh, Lord, no, I don't mind. I can spare her, anyway. She's checked up
+too high for me. But she can look you through pretty thoroughly, can't
+she?"
+
+"She writes books," Miss Trueman returned, the finality of her tone
+indicating that she had explained any possible idiosyncrasy of the lady
+in question.
+
+"Oh, I see. And the little red-haired one, does she write books, too?"
+
+"No; she's an artist. She smokes too, though. Not cigars, like yours,
+but cigarettes. She's supposed to be a very good painter, but she
+doesn't make what Carrie--lyn makes. The girls have very good positions
+in Miss Abrams' school."
+
+"Um, what do they get, now?"
+
+Miss Trueman mentioned the modest sum with pride.
+
+"And then with my money and what we get from the rent of the place--the
+girls and I each have a third, you know--we do very nicely."
+
+"So you rented the place?"
+
+"Yes, Cousin Lorando, though I hated to. But I wouldn't sell it, though
+they wanted me to. I just couldn't."
+
+"I know."
+
+He lighted his cigar and puffed at it in meditative silence for a
+moment, while the babble from the parlor floated in with the odor of the
+Ceylon tea and cigarettes.
+
+"That's what I came about, Cousin Jule--the old place. You may think
+it's queer, for I never lived there but two years once, when father and
+your Uncle Joe farmed it on shares; but those two years just made it
+home to me. Of course Uncle Joe wasn't any real relation of mine, and
+you-all weren't my real cousins, but it was the only family I ever had,
+so to say, and I loved every one of you. Then we moved back into town;
+but you know I came in every week or so, and Aunt Martha used to have my
+room in the attic ready for me, just the same."
+
+"Yes, I know; Aunt Martha never forgot you, Cousin Lorando."
+
+"Well, it's fifteen years since I saw the old place, and a lot's
+happened since then, I tell you. First place, I'm a rich man, Cousin
+Jule.
+
+"Oh, I don't mean one of these multi-millionaires you have about here,
+for I haven't even seven figures opposite my name; but short of that
+I did very well for myself out West there, and I earned it all fair,
+too--though I was pretty lucky, and that counts.
+
+"Anyhow, never mind about that. Only I've got enough to have anything I
+want, and to give my friends something, too. So as soon as I got back.
+East I went straight down to the farm. But it was all shut up and a kind
+of green hedge where the fence used to be, and I judged it was sold, and
+I felt pretty sore about it, so I came right away."
+
+"They only come there in June," Miss Trueman explained, "and they go
+back before Thanksgiving."
+
+"Yes. Well, I didn't know that."
+
+He waited again for a few seconds, and Miss Trueman sat in respectful
+silence till he should continue.
+
+"You see, I'd been East once before, eight years ago, but I didn't see
+the farm then," he said finally.
+
+"I got married while I was West."
+
+His audience of one started slightly.
+
+"She's dead now," he added abruptly.
+
+"Oh, Cousin Lorando--"
+
+"You needn't bother about the sympathy, my dear, for there's none
+needed. I hadn't been with her for a good while. I saw her in a
+concert-hall out there, and she had curly hair and a kind of taking way
+with her, and so I married her. I'd just made a big hit, and she wanted
+to come to New York, and we came. We went to a big hotel, and it was
+dress-suits for me and diamonds for her, and we drove in a carriage in
+the park in the afternoon. She liked it, but I soon got enough. I don't
+care much for that sort of thing. She wanted to go to the theatre and
+see the girls that she'd been one of, you see, from the other side of
+the curtain. And she saw a man there she used to know, and--well, it
+turned out she liked him better, that's all."
+
+"Oh, Cousin Lorando, how terrible--for her!"
+
+"Um, yes. She didn't think it was specially terrible, I guess, though.
+She just packed up and went."
+
+"Went?"
+
+"Yes--with him, you see. Diamonds and all. I got a divorce, of course.
+And she wasn't such a bad lot, after all, for he hadn't any money to
+speak of, compared to me. It was the man she wanted. Well, she got him."
+
+"How awful!" Miss Trueman murmured.
+
+"Oh, yes, I felt pretty sick for a while. But we hadn't been any too
+happy before she saw him, you see. It was a big mistake. She wasn't
+exactly the kind of woman you'd be apt to know, you see. So perhaps I
+got off easier than I deserved. But I never would have married while she
+was alive. Not but what I had a right to, you understand, but I guess
+I'm old-fashioned more ways than one. I read about her death a year or
+so ago. I don't believe she had any too good a time herself. She had
+an awful temper. But she certainly did have pretty hair," he concluded
+thoughtfully.
+
+Miss Trueman gasped.
+
+"So I didn't want to see New York again; I just hated the place. And
+this time I only came because I found out you and the girls were here,
+and you were about all there was left. People die so. And I wanted to
+find out about the old place. I wanted to buy it, if I could, when I
+thought it was sold."
+
+"But, Cousin Lorando, I couldn't sell it!"
+
+"Oh, no, I s'pose not. Still, I might buy out the girls' thirds and rent
+yours, couldn't I? I'd pay you as much and more than anybody else would,
+I guess. And you could keep your interest. And keep half of the house,
+for that matter, to use when you wanted--it's big enough."
+
+"Why, yes, I don't see why I couldn't do that," she said thoughtfully.
+"That would be nice."
+
+"You see, I'm willing to make any arrangement, Cousin Jule. It's about
+all there is that I'm fond of now, that old place. I haven't any folks
+of my own, and not a chick nor child, and I love every stick and stone
+of that farm. I love the country, and I love Connecticut country best
+of all, I don't care if it is rocky. You can't make farming pay in New
+England any more. But I don't need to make it pay; I'm willing to pay
+for the pleasure of it. And I want to do something for the town, too. I
+want 'em to be glad I came to settle there. Who's got the keys?"
+
+"I have, right here," she answered. "The furniture is all ours, you see;
+they haven't brought much, only they've changed things all around. I
+haven't renewed the lease yet for this year."
+
+"Well, now, look here, Jule," Mr. Bean cried eagerly, dropping the end
+of his cigar into a bonbon-dish on the little side-table, "why don't you
+run right up there with me to-night, and we'll look it all over and
+sort of plan it out? We can go up on the six-thirty, and get there by
+half-past ten, and stop at the hotel, and be there all ready to look it
+over to-morrow. Now, how's that?"
+
+"Why, but, Cousin Lorando--I--there isn't time--I hadn't planned--"
+
+"Lord, neither had I, but what's the difference? If you want a thing
+done, go and do it yourself. Wouldn't you like to go? It's lovely
+up there; the spring's coming on fast, you know. I got lots of
+pussy-willow, and some little fellows told me there were May-flowers
+somewhere. You'll see more grass in a minute there than you can hunt up
+here in a week. Come on, Cousin Jule!"
+
+"I believe I will!" said Miss True-man, with conviction.
+
+"Just pack up a bag for your aunt, Carrie, while I get a cab," said Mr.
+Bean from the doorway. "We're going up to the old place--I'm thinking of
+buying it. I expect we'll be back tomorrow."
+
+"Your cousin appears to be a person of decision," Mrs. Ranger suggested
+to the still dazed Elise, as the cab rolled away.
+
+"I don't understand Aunt Ju-ju at all," Carolyn interpolated crossly.
+She had not been in the habit of packing her aunt's bag. "She usually
+makes such a fuss about starting to go anywhere--days ahead, in fact.
+And now at fifteen minutes' notice! And her best gown!"
+
+"It makes a difference, having a man to run it," said the novelist
+sagely.
+
+When two days had passed and their aunt had not yet appeared, her nieces
+were not unnecessarily alarmed, for her attachment to her old home was
+great, and it required no unusual degree of imagination to picture
+her delighted lingering over the old things, her purposely prolonged
+transaction of business details. But four days of unexplained absence
+had its effect upon their own little m�nage; and when a week's visit had
+been accomplished and their beseeching letters had elicited only vague
+postal cards explaining nothing, but suggesting their presence at the
+farm, they became convinced of the necessity for action on their part,
+and went, more or less in the presumable spirit of the mountain in
+search of the fractious Prophet.
+
+Tired and cross after four hours' travel on an incredibly hot 1st of
+April, they walked sternly up the board walk that led to the old-style
+porch, to be greeted by their cousin, who sat in snowy shirtsleeves,
+tilted back in his chair against the house, smoking his fat, dark cigar.
+
+"Welcome home, girls--glad to see you!" he called cheerily. "Here they
+are, Jule! Now don't be afraid, but come right out and see them!"
+
+"Why, bless your heart, Lorando, I'm not afraid," a familiar voice
+answered; and Aunt Julia appeared before them, cool in blue checked
+gingham, with an enveloping white apron and familiarly floury hands.
+
+"I'm just beating up some biscuit for tea," she explained, "but I guess
+you can shake hands with me, girls "; and as she extended both arms
+hospitably they saw upon her floured left hand an unmistakable shining
+gold band.
+
+"Aunt Jule!" they gasped together. "Are you--is it--"
+
+"That's it exactly," said Cousin Lorando Bean. "She is. And I hope
+you'll congratulate her, girls, though nobody knows better than I what a
+good housekeeper you've lost! I'll tell you the facts of the matter, and
+you can judge for yourself. If ever two people were made for each other,
+those two are your Aunt Jule and me. We love the country, and we love
+this farm, and what's very important, we love the same way of living."
+
+"That's quite true, Carrie--lyn," Aunt Julia interposed, the tears in
+her eyes, but a new decision in her voice.
+
+"I like my tea at night, and so does your Cousin Lorando. And I should
+have wanted gravy on my potato if I lived to be a hundred. And, Carrie,
+I _could not live_ without a cellar!
+
+"And if you knew how nervous I got when that old dumb-waiter in the
+kitchen used to whistle for the things to be put on it! I used to hate
+it so--sometimes I'd wake up in the night and think I heard it! Once I
+lost my temper at it, and I answered it back: 'I haven't anything to go
+down, and I wouldn't give it to you if I had!'"
+
+"Why, Aunt Jule!" they cried.
+
+"And I tell you, Carrie, when you have cleaned house regularly, spring
+and fall, for forty years, ever since you were born, it makes an awful
+break to give it up! And I do love a good crayon portrait."
+
+They looked at each other in silence.
+
+"And when you have a set of furniture, it makes me nervous not to have
+it set together," Aunt Julia went on determinedly.
+
+"And I will _not_ have a woman smoking in my house!
+
+"And oh, Carrie, if you knew how I suffered with that dirty darky girl!"
+
+"But--but, Aunt Jule, why didn't you--"
+
+"You see, Carrie and Lizzie, it was this way," said Mr. Bean soothingly.
+
+"Your aunt and I got talking old times, and we found that we both felt
+about the same. And after we'd looked the old house over together a day
+or two, she couldn't seem to leave it, somehow, and she couldn't live in
+it alone, and I always wanted it.
+
+"So I said, 'If you'll just step over to the parson's, across the
+street, with me, we'll fix this all right in about ten minutes. You've
+known me ever since I was a boy, and I've known you, and it's nobody's
+business but ours if we want to finish up together.' I may have said a
+few other things, too, but that's neither here nor there. And when she
+said what would the girls do, I told her that what with the full price
+of their interest in the farm, and her third that she could add to
+it--for a sort of wedding-present, you see--I didn't see but what you
+could well afford to take a trip to Europe and stay about as long as you
+liked--she said you wanted to do that more than anything; though why I
+don't know--Connecticut ought to be good enough for anybody!"
+
+They sank upon the porch steps, sincerely overcome.
+
+"I knew you'd like it when you came to know it all," said Aunt Julia
+placidly. "He's the kindest man--"
+
+And to their excited eyes the very tidies on the geometrically arranged
+chairs, the bright rag rugs on the floor, the biscuits and preserves
+consecrated to their New England tea, yes, even the insistent
+shirt-sleeves of Cousin Lorando Bean, were lighted by a halo of content.
+
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+Title: Julia The Apostate
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+Author: Josephine Daskam
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+</pre>
+    <div style="height: 8em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h1>
+      JULIA THE APOSTATE
+    </h1>
+    <h2>
+      By Josephine Daskam <br /> <br /> Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's
+      Sons
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You don't think it's too young for me, girls?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Young for you&mdash;<i>par exemple!</i> I should say not,&rdquo; her niece
+      replied, perking the quivering aigrette still more obliquely upon her
+      aunt's head. Carolyn used <i>par exemple</i> as a good cook uses onion&mdash;a
+      hint of it in everything. There were those who said that she interpolated
+      it in the Litany; but Carolyn, who was born Caroline and a Baptist, was
+      too much impressed by the liturgy of what she called The Church to insert
+      even an uncanonized comma.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now don't touch it, Aunt Julia, for it's deliciously chic, and if you had
+      your way you'd flatten it down right straight in the middle&mdash;you know
+      you would.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman pursed her lips quizzically.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I've always thought, Carrie&mdash;<i>lyn</i>,&rdquo; she added hastily, as her
+      niece scowled, &ldquo;that they put things askew to make 'em different&mdash;for
+      a change, as you might say. Now, if they're <i>never</i> in the middle,
+      it's about as tiresome, isn't it?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Elise, whose napkin-ring bore malignant witness to her loving aunt, Eliza
+      Judd, laughed irrepressibly: she had more sense of humor than her sister.
+      It was she who, though she had assisted in polishing the old copper kettle
+      subsequently utilized as a holder for the tongs and shovel, had refused to
+      consider the yet older wash-boiler in the light of a possible
+      coal-scuttle, greatly to the relief of her aunt, who blushed persistently
+      at any mention of the hearth.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She patted the older woman encouragingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's right, Aunt Ju-ju, argue it out!&rdquo; she advised.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman winced. She had never accustomed herself to those senseless
+      monosyllables that parodied her name; nor could she understand the frame
+      of mind that found them preferable to the comfortable &ldquo;Aunt Jule&rdquo; of the
+      old days.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ju-ju!&rdquo; Strips of unwholesome flesh-colored paste, sugar-sprinkled, dear
+      to her childish heart but loathed by a maturer palate, rose to her mind.
+      There had been another haunting recollection: for months she had been
+      unable to define it perfectly, though it had always brought a thrill of
+      disgust with its vague appeal. One day she caught it and told them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It was that dreadful creature Mr. Barnum exhibited,&rdquo; she declared, &ldquo;that
+      we didn't allow the children to go to see&mdash;Jo-jo, the Dog-faced Boy!
+      You remember?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Their cold horror, briefly expressed, had shown her that she had
+      trespassed too far on their indulgence, and she spoke of it no more, but
+      the memory rankled.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It's so strange you don't see how cunning it is,&rdquo; Carolyn complained;
+      &ldquo;everybody does it now. The whole Chatworth family have those names, Aunt
+      Ju, and it is the dearest thing to hear the old doctor call Captain Arthur
+      'Ga-ga.' You know that dignified sister with the lovely silvery hair?
+      Well, they all call her 'Looty.' And nobody thinks of Hunter Chatworth's
+      real name&mdash;he's always 'Toto.'&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And he has three children!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman sighed; the constitution of the modern family amazed her
+      endlessly. Ga-ga, indeed!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Do the children call him Toto, too?&rdquo; she demanded, with an attempt at
+      sarcasm, a conversational form to which she was by nature a stranger.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, I don't know about that,&rdquo; Carolyn answered carelessly. &ldquo;I suppose
+      not. Though plenty of children do, you know. Mrs. Ranger's little girl
+      always calls her mother Lou.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Mrs. Ranger&mdash;you mean the woman that smokes?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman's tone brought vividly to the mind a person dangling from
+      disgusted finger-tips a mouse or beetle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For heaven's sake, Aunt Jule&rdquo;&mdash;in moments of intense exasperation
+      they reverted unconsciously to the old form&mdash;&ldquo;don't speak of her as
+      if she smoked for a living!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I should rather not speak of her at all,&rdquo; said Miss Trueman severely.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They raised their eyebrows helplessly: Carolyn's irritation was so
+      unfeigned that she omitted a justly famous shrug.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      For two years they had devoted an appreciable part of their busy hours to
+      modifying Aunt Julia's antique prejudices, developing in her the latent
+      aesthetic sense that their Wednesday art class taught them existed in
+      every one, cajoling her into a tolerance of certain phases of modern
+      literature considered seriously and weekly by the Monday Afternoon Club,
+      and incidentally utilizing her as a chaperon and housekeeper in their
+      modest up-town apartment.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The first six months of her sojourn had been almost entirely occupied with
+      accustoming herself to the absence of an attic and a cellar; long days of
+      depression they learned, finally, to trace to this incredible source.
+      Later she dealt with the problem of subsisting from eight till one on two
+      rolls and a cup of coffee; successfully, in the ultimate issue, as
+      surreptitious bits of fried ham and buckwheat cakes, with suspicious
+      odors, winked at discreetly by her nieces, witnessed. It would have been
+      unkind, as Elise suggested, to criticise Aunt Ju-ju's performances at the
+      ungodly hour of seven in the morning, when their own correctly Continental
+      repast, flanked by a chrysanthemum in a tall vase, not only tallied so
+      accurately with their digestive and aesthetic necessities, but appeared,
+      moreover, with such gratifying regularity one hour later.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Both Carolyn and her sister had inherited from their mother, Miss
+      True-man's older sister, a real gift for teaching, and this, rather than
+      their respective abilities in art and music, enabled them to impart very
+      successfully the elements of these necessary branches to the young ladies
+      of a fashionable boarding-school just outside the city.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was politely regretted by their friends that they were unable to give
+      themselves unreservedly to the exercise of their art without the cramping
+      necessity for teaching; but it is probable that both the girls estimated
+      their not too extraordinary talents very sensibly, though far from
+      displeased by a more flattering judgment.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman, who possessed the characteristic veneration of the bred and
+      born New Englander for his native or imported school-ma'am, resented
+      persistently their somewhat patronizing attitude toward the profession
+      second only to the ministry in her stanch respect. A little of the simple
+      grandeur of those childhood days when &ldquo;the teacher boarded with them&rdquo;
+       clung with the ineradicable force of habit to her mind, and she could not
+      understand their restive attitude at &ldquo;the fine positions as teachers
+      Hattie's girls have got.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I'm sure you make more money than that Miss Seymour that gets her own
+      meals in her room&mdash;she said so herself.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, well, there are other things to be considered, Aunt Ju; and, anyway,
+      she's a real bohemian, Polly Seymour. There's a fascination in it.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There's no fascination in being hungry that I can see, and she admitted
+      that, L&mdash;Elise,&rdquo; Miss Trueman insisted severely. &ldquo;I don't understand
+      how she could have done it&mdash;I would have died first. And she seemed
+      to think it was a great joke to have her friends give her a dinner&mdash;I
+      think it was terrible.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, Aunt Jule, how ridiculous! We were delighted to do it&mdash;it was
+      perfectly dear of her to let us, too. And think of the people we met there&mdash;Rawlins
+      and Mr. Ware! You don't mind being poor if such men will come just out of
+      interest in you, I tell you. Do you remember, Elise, how Mr. Rawlins
+      called her 'little girl'? Mr. Ware lets her use his models whenever she
+      likes, too,&rdquo; Carolyn added respectfully.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, she's bound to arrive!&rdquo; Elise agreed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Aunt Ju-ju sniffed uncontrolledly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I should hope she'd arrive at the point where she could buy her own
+      dinners,&rdquo; she remarked. &ldquo;To be beholden for your bread&rdquo;...
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here were two points of view as little likely to coincide as the parallel
+      lines of science, and at some such stage as this the discussions were wont
+      to cease.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To-day the apartment was swept and garnished for a social function long
+      planned by the nieces. Carnations leaned from tall glass vases, intricate
+      little cakes jostled carefully piled sandwiches, and a huge brass samovar,
+      borrowed for the occasion, gave dignity to the small parlor. Miss Trueman
+      had learned by now the unwritten law that prevented the various objects in
+      the once proudly segregated &ldquo;drawing-room set&rdquo; from association with each
+      other, and made no attempt to correct their intentional isolation. The
+      samovar she refused utterly to meddle with, assuring them that she would
+      as soon think of running a locomotive.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As the guests began to arrive Miss Trueman found herself regarding them
+      even more critically than usual; an argumentative spirit rose in her, and
+      her calm contradiction of Mrs. Ranger, who discussed with great subtlety
+      the notable advantages&mdash;even from the artistic point of view&mdash;of
+      the approaching spring when experienced in the city, in comparison with
+      that be-rhymed season's vaunted country beauties, startled more than one
+      person.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Just because they're more delicate, just because you must look harder to
+      discover them, just because you must get as much from a pot of hyacinths
+      on the Avenue as from a whole field of primroses in the backwoods, you
+      know,&rdquo; she concluded, and the little circle nodded sagely and
+      congratulated themselves on an unpublished paragraph.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don't agree with you, Mrs. Ranger,&rdquo; said Aunt Ju-ju flatly, to the
+      absolute amazement of her nieces and the tolerant amusement of the
+      assembly. &ldquo;I guess you haven't lived in the country much, or you wouldn't
+      talk so. And primroses don't grow in fields here, anyway. If you could see
+      my hyacinths and crocuses in round beds at home, you wouldn't mention
+      those poor little stalks in the pots.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Mrs. Ranger laughed, and directed her searching, level glance at the older
+      woman, who combined in her comely, undisguised middle age something at
+      once more matronly and more childish than the analytic authoress could
+      ever find in her own mirror.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Aha!&rdquo; she cried, &ldquo;then you are no friend of dear old Horace, after all,
+      Miss Trueman! He and I, you see&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The relation of these two urbanites was revealed no further, for a bustle
+      in the little hall drew attention to a newcomer unknown not only to the
+      guests but evidently to the hostesses, who rose, smiling uncertainly, as a
+      portly, broad-shouldered man with iron-gray hair made his way through the
+      group about the samovar.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I'll have to introduce myself, I see,&rdquo; he began, not precisely with what
+      an exigent society calls ease of manner, but with a certain practical
+      self-possession quite as effective.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I didn't expect the girls to remember me, but I thought perhaps you
+      might, Julia.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman peered out from the shaded five-o'clock gloom so dear to
+      Carolyn's soul.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don't seem&mdash;it's not&mdash;why, Cousin Lorando Bean, it's not
+      you?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's it,&rdquo; he said heartily, &ldquo;that's just exactly it. And he's mighty
+      glad to see some of his relations again, I can tell you. And these are
+      Carrie and Lizzie, I suppose. Well, well, fifteen years is a long time,
+      even to an old fellow like me, and you girls were just beginning to be
+      young ladies when I left Connecticut. How are you all?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      If this simple greeting came like a breath of her native air to Miss
+      True-man, it cannot be said to have had a similar effect on her nieces.
+      Courtesy prevented a full expression of their feelings, but they affected
+      no undue delight at the presence of their new-found relative&mdash;whom
+      they had very sincerely forgotten, along with many other details of a
+      somewhat inartistic youth&mdash;and turned to their other guests with a
+      frank relief when they had established him, with a cup of tea, a sandwich,
+      and Aunt Julia, in the near-by dining-room.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A third or fourth cousin, I believe, who has lived a long time in the
+      West,&rdquo; they explained. The company, some of whom doubtless possessed third
+      or fourth cousins from the West, nodded comprehensively, and the
+      interrupted function flowed smoothly on again.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Cousin Lorando Bean balanced his cup on his broad palm and gazed about
+      appreciatively at the casts and water-colors on the dull green walls.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very snug little quarters, these,&rdquo; he volunteered, &ldquo;but, do you know,
+      Cousin Jule, I suppose it's all right for ladies, but I don't seem to
+      breathe extra well in these little rooms, somehow! I've been in two or
+      three of them like this, more or less, since I came to New York&mdash;people
+      I used to know that I've been hunting up&mdash;and, by George, I began to
+      feel as if I was getting red in the face, if you see what I mean.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, indeed, Cousin Lorando, I do,&rdquo; returned Miss Trueman eagerly, &ldquo;I see
+      exactly. And not having any cellar&mdash;you've no idea! Nor any attic,
+      either. And often and often we have the gas lighted all through breakfast.
+      Of course there are a great many conveniences,&rdquo; she added loyally, &ldquo;and
+      there's no doubt it saves steps. But I almost think I'd rather take 'em.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He nodded.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What's become of the old place, Cousin Jule? I judge you've been out of
+      it some time?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Two years, Cousin Lorando. The girls had been boarding up to then, and
+      when Aunt Martha died they got up this plan for me to come down and live
+      with them, for they couldn't afford it quite, alone, and then I could
+      chaperon them.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Aunt Julia delivered herself of this phrase with a certain complacency.
+      Mr. Bean looked up sharply.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That means that nobody gets a show to abduct 'em while you're around, I
+      take it?&rdquo; he inquired.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;We-ell, not exactly,&rdquo; she demurred.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But that's the idea? I thought so. Yes. How old is Lizzie now? Thirty?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, no, Cousin Lorando; L&mdash;&mdash; Elise isn't twenty-nine yet.
+      Carolyn is about thirty.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don't seem to recall any one chaperoning you and Hattie when you were
+      thirty,&rdquo; he suggested thoughtfully.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She laughed involuntarily.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, Hattie was married, Cousin Lorando, and the children were ten years
+      old! And, anyway, it was different then.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The girls were just as pretty, I guess,&rdquo; he insisted. &ldquo;And there were
+      plenty of buggies, if anybody had designs.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      There was a pause, and the buzz of voices from the other room rose loudly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;They've neither of them got their mother's looks,&rdquo; he observed; and then,
+      with apparent irrelevance: &ldquo;When will they be considered safe to go about
+      alone?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don't know exactly what you mean,&rdquo; she began a little coldly, but his
+      laugh reassured her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, yes, you do,&rdquo; he contradicted, &ldquo;and don't you be getting cross at
+      your Cousin Lorando Bean! You know I always loved to tease you; it made
+      your eyes snap&mdash;and it does now.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How can you?&rdquo; She looked reproachfully at him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And I tell you this, Cousin Jule: neither of those girls will ever get up
+      a color like that!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      She shook her head, but she was not displeased. He took out a fat
+      chocolate-colored cigar and fingered it wistfully.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I suppose I mustn't smoke?&rdquo; he queried.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Her quick answer surprised herself.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I should hope you could, if that woman can!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Which one?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That Mrs. Ranger, the one near the samovar&mdash;that big brass thing.
+      Liz&mdash;Elise didn't introduce her to you. They don't introduce people
+      the way they do at home, Cousin Lorando&mdash;I hope you didn't mind. They
+      think it's awkward.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, Lord, no, I don't mind. I can spare her, anyway. She's checked up too
+      high for me. But she can look you through pretty thoroughly, can't she?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;She writes books,&rdquo; Miss Trueman returned, the finality of her tone
+      indicating that she had explained any possible idiosyncrasy of the lady in
+      question.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, I see. And the little red-haired one, does she write books, too?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No; she's an artist. She smokes too, though. Not cigars, like yours, but
+      cigarettes. She's supposed to be a very good painter, but she doesn't make
+      what Carrie&mdash;lyn makes. The girls have very good positions in Miss
+      Abrams' school.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Um, what do they get, now?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman mentioned the modest sum with pride.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And then with my money and what we get from the rent of the place&mdash;the
+      girls and I each have a third, you know&mdash;we do very nicely.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So you rented the place?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, Cousin Lorando, though I hated to. But I wouldn't sell it, though
+      they wanted me to. I just couldn't.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I know.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He lighted his cigar and puffed at it in meditative silence for a moment,
+      while the babble from the parlor floated in with the odor of the Ceylon
+      tea and cigarettes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's what I came about, Cousin Jule&mdash;the old place. You may think
+      it's queer, for I never lived there but two years once, when father and
+      your Uncle Joe farmed it on shares; but those two years just made it home
+      to me. Of course Uncle Joe wasn't any real relation of mine, and you-all
+      weren't my real cousins, but it was the only family I ever had, so to say,
+      and I loved every one of you. Then we moved back into town; but you know I
+      came in every week or so, and Aunt Martha used to have my room in the
+      attic ready for me, just the same.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, I know; Aunt Martha never forgot you, Cousin Lorando.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, it's fifteen years since I saw the old place, and a lot's happened
+      since then, I tell you. First place, I'm a rich man, Cousin Jule.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, I don't mean one of these multi-millionaires you have about here, for
+      I haven't even seven figures opposite my name; but short of that I did
+      very well for myself out West there, and I earned it all fair, too&mdash;though
+      I was pretty lucky, and that counts.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Anyhow, never mind about that. Only I've got enough to have anything I
+      want, and to give my friends something, too. So as soon as I got back.
+      East I went straight down to the farm. But it was all shut up and a kind
+      of green hedge where the fence used to be, and I judged it was sold, and I
+      felt pretty sore about it, so I came right away.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;They only come there in June,&rdquo; Miss Trueman explained, &ldquo;and they go back
+      before Thanksgiving.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes. Well, I didn't know that.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He waited again for a few seconds, and Miss Trueman sat in respectful
+      silence till he should continue.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You see, I'd been East once before, eight years ago, but I didn't see the
+      farm then,&rdquo; he said finally.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I got married while I was West.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      His audience of one started slightly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;She's dead now,&rdquo; he added abruptly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, Cousin Lorando&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You needn't bother about the sympathy, my dear, for there's none needed.
+      I hadn't been with her for a good while. I saw her in a concert-hall out
+      there, and she had curly hair and a kind of taking way with her, and so I
+      married her. I'd just made a big hit, and she wanted to come to New York,
+      and we came. We went to a big hotel, and it was dress-suits for me and
+      diamonds for her, and we drove in a carriage in the park in the afternoon.
+      She liked it, but I soon got enough. I don't care much for that sort of
+      thing. She wanted to go to the theatre and see the girls that she'd been
+      one of, you see, from the other side of the curtain. And she saw a man
+      there she used to know, and&mdash;well, it turned out she liked him
+      better, that's all.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, Cousin Lorando, how terrible&mdash;for her!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Um, yes. She didn't think it was specially terrible, I guess, though. She
+      just packed up and went.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Went?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes&mdash;with him, you see. Diamonds and all. I got a divorce, of
+      course. And she wasn't such a bad lot, after all, for he hadn't any money
+      to speak of, compared to me. It was the man she wanted. Well, she got
+      him.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How awful!&rdquo; Miss Trueman murmured.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, yes, I felt pretty sick for a while. But we hadn't been any too happy
+      before she saw him, you see. It was a big mistake. She wasn't exactly the
+      kind of woman you'd be apt to know, you see. So perhaps I got off easier
+      than I deserved. But I never would have married while she was alive. Not
+      but what I had a right to, you understand, but I guess I'm old-fashioned
+      more ways than one. I read about her death a year or so ago. I don't
+      believe she had any too good a time herself. She had an awful temper. But
+      she certainly did have pretty hair,&rdquo; he concluded thoughtfully.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman gasped.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So I didn't want to see New York again; I just hated the place. And this
+      time I only came because I found out you and the girls were here, and you
+      were about all there was left. People die so. And I wanted to find out
+      about the old place. I wanted to buy it, if I could, when I thought it was
+      sold.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But, Cousin Lorando, I couldn't sell it!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, no, I s'pose not. Still, I might buy out the girls' thirds and rent
+      yours, couldn't I? I'd pay you as much and more than anybody else would, I
+      guess. And you could keep your interest. And keep half of the house, for
+      that matter, to use when you wanted&mdash;it's big enough.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, yes, I don't see why I couldn't do that,&rdquo; she said thoughtfully.
+      &ldquo;That would be nice.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You see, I'm willing to make any arrangement, Cousin Jule. It's about all
+      there is that I'm fond of now, that old place. I haven't any folks of my
+      own, and not a chick nor child, and I love every stick and stone of that
+      farm. I love the country, and I love Connecticut country best of all, I
+      don't care if it is rocky. You can't make farming pay in New England any
+      more. But I don't need to make it pay; I'm willing to pay for the pleasure
+      of it. And I want to do something for the town, too. I want 'em to be glad
+      I came to settle there. Who's got the keys?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have, right here,&rdquo; she answered. &ldquo;The furniture is all ours, you see;
+      they haven't brought much, only they've changed things all around. I
+      haven't renewed the lease yet for this year.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, now, look here, Jule,&rdquo; Mr. Bean cried eagerly, dropping the end of
+      his cigar into a bonbon-dish on the little side-table, &ldquo;why don't you run
+      right up there with me to-night, and we'll look it all over and sort of
+      plan it out? We can go up on the six-thirty, and get there by half-past
+      ten, and stop at the hotel, and be there all ready to look it over
+      to-morrow. Now, how's that?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, but, Cousin Lorando&mdash;I&mdash;there isn't time&mdash;I hadn't
+      planned&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Lord, neither had I, but what's the difference? If you want a thing done,
+      go and do it yourself. Wouldn't you like to go? It's lovely up there; the
+      spring's coming on fast, you know. I got lots of pussy-willow, and some
+      little fellows told me there were May-flowers somewhere. You'll see more
+      grass in a minute there than you can hunt up here in a week. Come on,
+      Cousin Jule!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I believe I will!&rdquo; said Miss True-man, with conviction.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Just pack up a bag for your aunt, Carrie, while I get a cab,&rdquo; said Mr.
+      Bean from the doorway. &ldquo;We're going up to the old place&mdash;I'm thinking
+      of buying it. I expect we'll be back tomorrow.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your cousin appears to be a person of decision,&rdquo; Mrs. Ranger suggested to
+      the still dazed Elise, as the cab rolled away.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don't understand Aunt Ju-ju at all,&rdquo; Carolyn interpolated crossly. She
+      had not been in the habit of packing her aunt's bag. &ldquo;She usually makes
+      such a fuss about starting to go anywhere&mdash;days ahead, in fact. And
+      now at fifteen minutes' notice! And her best gown!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It makes a difference, having a man to run it,&rdquo; said the novelist sagely.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When two days had passed and their aunt had not yet appeared, her nieces
+      were not unnecessarily alarmed, for her attachment to her old home was
+      great, and it required no unusual degree of imagination to picture her
+      delighted lingering over the old things, her purposely prolonged
+      transaction of business details. But four days of unexplained absence had
+      its effect upon their own little ménage; and when a week's visit had been
+      accomplished and their beseeching letters had elicited only vague postal
+      cards explaining nothing, but suggesting their presence at the farm, they
+      became convinced of the necessity for action on their part, and went, more
+      or less in the presumable spirit of the mountain in search of the
+      fractious Prophet.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Tired and cross after four hours' travel on an incredibly hot 1st of
+      April, they walked sternly up the board walk that led to the old-style
+      porch, to be greeted by their cousin, who sat in snowy shirtsleeves,
+      tilted back in his chair against the house, smoking his fat, dark cigar.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Welcome home, girls&mdash;glad to see you!&rdquo; he called cheerily. &ldquo;Here
+      they are, Jule! Now don't be afraid, but come right out and see them!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, bless your heart, Lorando, I'm not afraid,&rdquo; a familiar voice
+      answered; and Aunt Julia appeared before them, cool in blue checked
+      gingham, with an enveloping white apron and familiarly floury hands.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I'm just beating up some biscuit for tea,&rdquo; she explained, &ldquo;but I guess
+      you can shake hands with me, girls &ldquo;; and as she extended both arms
+      hospitably they saw upon her floured left hand an unmistakable shining
+      gold band.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Aunt Jule!&rdquo; they gasped together. &ldquo;Are you&mdash;is it&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's it exactly,&rdquo; said Cousin Lorando Bean. &ldquo;She is. And I hope you'll
+      congratulate her, girls, though nobody knows better than I what a good
+      housekeeper you've lost! I'll tell you the facts of the matter, and you
+      can judge for yourself. If ever two people were made for each other, those
+      two are your Aunt Jule and me. We love the country, and we love this farm,
+      and what's very important, we love the same way of living.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's quite true, Carrie&mdash;lyn,&rdquo; Aunt Julia interposed, the tears in
+      her eyes, but a new decision in her voice.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I like my tea at night, and so does your Cousin Lorando. And I should
+      have wanted gravy on my potato if I lived to be a hundred. And, Carrie, I
+      <i>could not live</i> without a cellar!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And if you knew how nervous I got when that old dumb-waiter in the
+      kitchen used to whistle for the things to be put on it! I used to hate it
+      so&mdash;sometimes I'd wake up in the night and think I heard it! Once I
+      lost my temper at it, and I answered it back: 'I haven't anything to go
+      down, and I wouldn't give it to you if I had!'&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, Aunt Jule!&rdquo; they cried.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And I tell you, Carrie, when you have cleaned house regularly, spring and
+      fall, for forty years, ever since you were born, it makes an awful break
+      to give it up! And I do love a good crayon portrait.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      They looked at each other in silence.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And when you have a set of furniture, it makes me nervous not to have it
+      set together,&rdquo; Aunt Julia went on determinedly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And I will <i>not</i> have a woman smoking in my house!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And oh, Carrie, if you knew how I suffered with that dirty darky girl!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But&mdash;but, Aunt Jule, why didn't you&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You see, Carrie and Lizzie, it was this way,&rdquo; said Mr. Bean soothingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your aunt and I got talking old times, and we found that we both felt
+      about the same. And after we'd looked the old house over together a day or
+      two, she couldn't seem to leave it, somehow, and she couldn't live in it
+      alone, and I always wanted it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So I said, 'If you'll just step over to the parson's, across the street,
+      with me, we'll fix this all right in about ten minutes. You've known me
+      ever since I was a boy, and I've known you, and it's nobody's business but
+      ours if we want to finish up together.' I may have said a few other
+      things, too, but that's neither here nor there. And when she said what
+      would the girls do, I told her that what with the full price of their
+      interest in the farm, and her third that she could add to it&mdash;for a
+      sort of wedding-present, you see&mdash;I didn't see but what you could
+      well afford to take a trip to Europe and stay about as long as you liked&mdash;she
+      said you wanted to do that more than anything; though why I don't know&mdash;Connecticut
+      ought to be good enough for anybody!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      They sank upon the porch steps, sincerely overcome.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I knew you'd like it when you came to know it all,&rdquo; said Aunt Julia
+      placidly. &ldquo;He's the kindest man&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      And to their excited eyes the very tidies on the geometrically arranged
+      chairs, the bright rag rugs on the floor, the biscuits and preserves
+      consecrated to their New England tea, yes, even the insistent
+      shirt-sleeves of Cousin Lorando Bean, were lighted by a halo of content.
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 6em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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+Title: Julia The Apostate
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+Author: Josephine Daskam
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JULIA THE APOSTATE ***
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+JULIA THE APOSTATE
+
+By Josephine Daskam
+
+Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons
+
+
+"You don't think it's too young for me, girls?"
+
+"Young for you--_par exemple!_ I should say not," her niece replied,
+perking the quivering aigrette still more obliquely upon her aunt's
+head. Carolyn used _par exemple_ as a good cook uses onion--a hint of it
+in everything. There were those who said that she interpolated it in the
+Litany; but Carolyn, who was born Caroline and a Baptist, was too much
+impressed by the liturgy of what she called The Church to insert even an
+uncanonized comma.
+
+"Now don't touch it, Aunt Julia, for it's deliciously chic, and if you
+had your way you'd flatten it down right straight in the middle--you
+know you would."
+
+Miss Trueman pursed her lips quizzically.
+
+"I've always thought, Carrie--_lyn_," she added hastily, as her niece
+scowled, "that they put things askew to make 'em different--for a
+change, as you might say. Now, if they're _never_ in the middle, it's
+about as tiresome, isn't it?"
+
+Elise, whose napkin-ring bore malignant witness to her loving aunt,
+Eliza Judd, laughed irrepressibly: she had more sense of humor than her
+sister. It was she who, though she had assisted in polishing the old
+copper kettle subsequently utilized as a holder for the tongs and
+shovel, had refused to consider the yet older wash-boiler in the light
+of a possible coal-scuttle, greatly to the relief of her aunt, who
+blushed persistently at any mention of the hearth.
+
+She patted the older woman encouragingly.
+
+"That's right, Aunt Ju-ju, argue it out!" she advised.
+
+Miss Trueman winced. She had never accustomed herself to those senseless
+monosyllables that parodied her name; nor could she understand the frame
+of mind that found them preferable to the comfortable "Aunt Jule" of the
+old days.
+
+"Ju-ju!" Strips of unwholesome flesh-colored paste, sugar-sprinkled,
+dear to her childish heart but loathed by a maturer palate, rose to her
+mind. There had been another haunting recollection: for months she
+had been unable to define it perfectly, though it had always brought a
+thrill of disgust with its vague appeal. One day she caught it and told
+them.
+
+"It was that dreadful creature Mr. Barnum exhibited," she declared,
+"that we didn't allow the children to go to see--Jo-jo, the Dog-faced
+Boy! You remember?"
+
+Their cold horror, briefly expressed, had shown her that she had
+trespassed too far on their indulgence, and she spoke of it no more, but
+the memory rankled.
+
+"It's so strange you don't see how cunning it is," Carolyn complained;
+"everybody does it now. The whole Chatworth family have those names,
+Aunt Ju, and it is the dearest thing to hear the old doctor call Captain
+Arthur 'Ga-ga.' You know that dignified sister with the lovely silvery
+hair? Well, they all call her 'Looty.' And nobody thinks of Hunter
+Chatworth's real name--he's always 'Toto.'"
+
+"And he has three children!"
+
+Miss Trueman sighed; the constitution of the modern family amazed her
+endlessly. Ga-ga, indeed!
+
+"Do the children call him Toto, too?" she demanded, with an attempt at
+sarcasm, a conversational form to which she was by nature a stranger.
+
+"Oh, I don't know about that," Carolyn answered carelessly. "I suppose
+not. Though plenty of children do, you know. Mrs. Ranger's little girl
+always calls her mother Lou."
+
+"Mrs. Ranger--you mean the woman that smokes?"
+
+Miss Trueman's tone brought vividly to the mind a person dangling from
+disgusted finger-tips a mouse or beetle.
+
+"For heaven's sake, Aunt Jule"--in moments of intense exasperation they
+reverted unconsciously to the old form--"don't speak of her as if she
+smoked for a living!"
+
+"I should rather not speak of her at all," said Miss Trueman severely.
+
+They raised their eyebrows helplessly: Carolyn's irritation was so
+unfeigned that she omitted a justly famous shrug.
+
+For two years they had devoted an appreciable part of their busy hours
+to modifying Aunt Julia's antique prejudices, developing in her the
+latent aesthetic sense that their Wednesday art class taught them
+existed in every one, cajoling her into a tolerance of certain phases
+of modern literature considered seriously and weekly by the Monday
+Afternoon Club, and incidentally utilizing her as a chaperon and
+housekeeper in their modest up-town apartment.
+
+The first six months of her sojourn had been almost entirely occupied
+with accustoming herself to the absence of an attic and a cellar; long
+days of depression they learned, finally, to trace to this incredible
+source. Later she dealt with the problem of subsisting from eight till
+one on two rolls and a cup of coffee; successfully, in the ultimate
+issue, as surreptitious bits of fried ham and buckwheat cakes, with
+suspicious odors, winked at discreetly by her nieces, witnessed. It
+would have been unkind, as Elise suggested, to criticise Aunt Ju-ju's
+performances at the ungodly hour of seven in the morning, when their own
+correctly Continental repast, flanked by a chrysanthemum in a tall
+vase, not only tallied so accurately with their digestive and aesthetic
+necessities, but appeared, moreover, with such gratifying regularity one
+hour later.
+
+Both Carolyn and her sister had inherited from their mother, Miss
+True-man's older sister, a real gift for teaching, and this, rather than
+their respective abilities in art and music, enabled them to impart
+very successfully the elements of these necessary branches to the young
+ladies of a fashionable boarding-school just outside the city.
+
+It was politely regretted by their friends that they were unable to
+give themselves unreservedly to the exercise of their art without the
+cramping necessity for teaching; but it is probable that both the girls
+estimated their not too extraordinary talents very sensibly, though far
+from displeased by a more flattering judgment.
+
+Miss Trueman, who possessed the characteristic veneration of the bred
+and born New Englander for his native or imported school-ma'am, resented
+persistently their somewhat patronizing attitude toward the profession
+second only to the ministry in her stanch respect. A little of the
+simple grandeur of those childhood days when "the teacher boarded with
+them" clung with the ineradicable force of habit to her mind, and she
+could not understand their restive attitude at "the fine positions as
+teachers Hattie's girls have got."
+
+"I'm sure you make more money than that Miss Seymour that gets her own
+meals in her room--she said so herself."
+
+"Oh, well, there are other things to be considered, Aunt Ju; and,
+anyway, she's a real bohemian, Polly Seymour. There's a fascination in
+it."
+
+"There's no fascination in being hungry that I can see, and she admitted
+that, L--Elise," Miss Trueman insisted severely. "I don't understand how
+she could have done it--I would have died first. And she seemed to think
+it was a great joke to have her friends give her a dinner--I think it
+was terrible."
+
+"Why, Aunt Jule, how ridiculous! We were delighted to do it--it was
+perfectly dear of her to let us, too. And think of the people we met
+there--Rawlins and Mr. Ware! You don't mind being poor if such men will
+come just out of interest in you, I tell you. Do you remember, Elise,
+how Mr. Rawlins called her 'little girl'? Mr. Ware lets her use his
+models whenever she likes, too," Carolyn added respectfully.
+
+"Oh, she's bound to arrive!" Elise agreed.
+
+Aunt Ju-ju sniffed uncontrolledly.
+
+"I should hope she'd arrive at the point where she could buy her own
+dinners," she remarked. "To be beholden for your bread"...
+
+Here were two points of view as little likely to coincide as the
+parallel lines of science, and at some such stage as this the
+discussions were wont to cease.
+
+To-day the apartment was swept and garnished for a social function
+long planned by the nieces. Carnations leaned from tall glass vases,
+intricate little cakes jostled carefully piled sandwiches, and a huge
+brass samovar, borrowed for the occasion, gave dignity to the small
+parlor. Miss Trueman had learned by now the unwritten law that prevented
+the various objects in the once proudly segregated "drawing-room set"
+from association with each other, and made no attempt to correct their
+intentional isolation. The samovar she refused utterly to meddle with,
+assuring them that she would as soon think of running a locomotive.
+
+As the guests began to arrive Miss Trueman found herself regarding them
+even more critically than usual; an argumentative spirit rose in her,
+and her calm contradiction of Mrs. Ranger, who discussed with great
+subtlety the notable advantages--even from the artistic point of
+view--of the approaching spring when experienced in the city, in
+comparison with that be-rhymed season's vaunted country beauties,
+startled more than one person.
+
+"Just because they're more delicate, just because you must look harder
+to discover them, just because you must get as much from a pot of
+hyacinths on the Avenue as from a whole field of primroses in the
+backwoods, you know," she concluded, and the little circle nodded sagely
+and congratulated themselves on an unpublished paragraph.
+
+"I don't agree with you, Mrs. Ranger," said Aunt Ju-ju flatly, to the
+absolute amazement of her nieces and the tolerant amusement of the
+assembly. "I guess you haven't lived in the country much, or you
+wouldn't talk so. And primroses don't grow in fields here, anyway.
+If you could see my hyacinths and crocuses in round beds at home, you
+wouldn't mention those poor little stalks in the pots."
+
+Mrs. Ranger laughed, and directed her searching, level glance at
+the older woman, who combined in her comely, undisguised middle age
+something at once more matronly and more childish than the analytic
+authoress could ever find in her own mirror.
+
+"Aha!" she cried, "then you are no friend of dear old Horace, after all,
+Miss Trueman! He and I, you see--"
+
+The relation of these two urbanites was revealed no further, for a
+bustle in the little hall drew attention to a newcomer unknown not
+only to the guests but evidently to the hostesses, who rose, smiling
+uncertainly, as a portly, broad-shouldered man with iron-gray hair made
+his way through the group about the samovar.
+
+"I'll have to introduce myself, I see," he began, not precisely
+with what an exigent society calls ease of manner, but with a certain
+practical self-possession quite as effective.
+
+"I didn't expect the girls to remember me, but I thought perhaps you
+might, Julia."
+
+Miss Trueman peered out from the shaded five-o'clock gloom so dear to
+Carolyn's soul.
+
+"I don't seem--it's not--why, Cousin Lorando Bean, it's not you?"
+
+"That's it," he said heartily, "that's just exactly it. And he's mighty
+glad to see some of his relations again, I can tell you. And these are
+Carrie and Lizzie, I suppose. Well, well, fifteen years is a long time,
+even to an old fellow like me, and you girls were just beginning to be
+young ladies when I left Connecticut. How are you all?"
+
+If this simple greeting came like a breath of her native air to Miss
+True-man, it cannot be said to have had a similar effect on her nieces.
+Courtesy prevented a full expression of their feelings, but they
+affected no undue delight at the presence of their new-found
+relative--whom they had very sincerely forgotten, along with many other
+details of a somewhat inartistic youth--and turned to their other guests
+with a frank relief when they had established him, with a cup of tea, a
+sandwich, and Aunt Julia, in the near-by dining-room.
+
+"A third or fourth cousin, I believe, who has lived a long time in the
+West," they explained. The company, some of whom doubtless possessed
+third or fourth cousins from the West, nodded comprehensively, and the
+interrupted function flowed smoothly on again.
+
+Cousin Lorando Bean balanced his cup on his broad palm and gazed about
+appreciatively at the casts and water-colors on the dull green walls.
+
+"Very snug little quarters, these," he volunteered, "but, do you know,
+Cousin Jule, I suppose it's all right for ladies, but I don't seem to
+breathe extra well in these little rooms, somehow! I've been in two or
+three of them like this, more or less, since I came to New York--people
+I used to know that I've been hunting up--and, by George, I began to
+feel as if I was getting red in the face, if you see what I mean."
+
+"Yes, indeed, Cousin Lorando, I do," returned Miss Trueman eagerly, "I
+see exactly. And not having any cellar--you've no idea! Nor any
+attic, either. And often and often we have the gas lighted all through
+breakfast. Of course there are a great many conveniences," she added
+loyally, "and there's no doubt it saves steps. But I almost think I'd
+rather take 'em."
+
+He nodded.
+
+"What's become of the old place, Cousin Jule? I judge you've been out of
+it some time?"
+
+"Two years, Cousin Lorando. The girls had been boarding up to then, and
+when Aunt Martha died they got up this plan for me to come down and live
+with them, for they couldn't afford it quite, alone, and then I could
+chaperon them."
+
+Aunt Julia delivered herself of this phrase with a certain complacency.
+Mr. Bean looked up sharply.
+
+"That means that nobody gets a show to abduct 'em while you're around, I
+take it?" he inquired.
+
+"We-ell, not exactly," she demurred.
+
+"But that's the idea? I thought so. Yes. How old is Lizzie now? Thirty?"
+
+"Oh, no, Cousin Lorando; L---- Elise isn't twenty-nine yet. Carolyn is
+about thirty."
+
+"I don't seem to recall any one chaperoning you and Hattie when you were
+thirty," he suggested thoughtfully.
+
+She laughed involuntarily.
+
+"Oh, Hattie was married, Cousin Lorando, and the children were ten years
+old! And, anyway, it was different then."
+
+"The girls were just as pretty, I guess," he insisted. "And there were
+plenty of buggies, if anybody had designs."
+
+There was a pause, and the buzz of voices from the other room rose
+loudly.
+
+"They've neither of them got their mother's looks," he observed; and
+then, with apparent irrelevance: "When will they be considered safe to
+go about alone?"
+
+"I don't know exactly what you mean," she began a little coldly, but his
+laugh reassured her.
+
+"Oh, yes, you do," he contradicted, "and don't you be getting cross at
+your Cousin Lorando Bean! You know I always loved to tease you; it made
+your eyes snap--and it does now."
+
+"How can you?" She looked reproachfully at him.
+
+"And I tell you this, Cousin Jule: neither of those girls will ever get
+up a color like that!"
+
+She shook her head, but she was not displeased. He took out a fat
+chocolate-colored cigar and fingered it wistfully.
+
+"I suppose I mustn't smoke?" he queried.
+
+Her quick answer surprised herself.
+
+"I should hope you could, if that woman can!"
+
+"Which one?"
+
+"That Mrs. Ranger, the one near the samovar--that big brass thing.
+Liz--Elise didn't introduce her to you. They don't introduce people the
+way they do at home, Cousin Lorando--I hope you didn't mind. They think
+it's awkward."
+
+"Oh, Lord, no, I don't mind. I can spare her, anyway. She's checked up
+too high for me. But she can look you through pretty thoroughly, can't
+she?"
+
+"She writes books," Miss Trueman returned, the finality of her tone
+indicating that she had explained any possible idiosyncrasy of the lady
+in question.
+
+"Oh, I see. And the little red-haired one, does she write books, too?"
+
+"No; she's an artist. She smokes too, though. Not cigars, like yours,
+but cigarettes. She's supposed to be a very good painter, but she
+doesn't make what Carrie--lyn makes. The girls have very good positions
+in Miss Abrams' school."
+
+"Um, what do they get, now?"
+
+Miss Trueman mentioned the modest sum with pride.
+
+"And then with my money and what we get from the rent of the place--the
+girls and I each have a third, you know--we do very nicely."
+
+"So you rented the place?"
+
+"Yes, Cousin Lorando, though I hated to. But I wouldn't sell it, though
+they wanted me to. I just couldn't."
+
+"I know."
+
+He lighted his cigar and puffed at it in meditative silence for a
+moment, while the babble from the parlor floated in with the odor of the
+Ceylon tea and cigarettes.
+
+"That's what I came about, Cousin Jule--the old place. You may think
+it's queer, for I never lived there but two years once, when father and
+your Uncle Joe farmed it on shares; but those two years just made it
+home to me. Of course Uncle Joe wasn't any real relation of mine, and
+you-all weren't my real cousins, but it was the only family I ever had,
+so to say, and I loved every one of you. Then we moved back into town;
+but you know I came in every week or so, and Aunt Martha used to have my
+room in the attic ready for me, just the same."
+
+"Yes, I know; Aunt Martha never forgot you, Cousin Lorando."
+
+"Well, it's fifteen years since I saw the old place, and a lot's
+happened since then, I tell you. First place, I'm a rich man, Cousin
+Jule.
+
+"Oh, I don't mean one of these multi-millionaires you have about here,
+for I haven't even seven figures opposite my name; but short of that
+I did very well for myself out West there, and I earned it all fair,
+too--though I was pretty lucky, and that counts.
+
+"Anyhow, never mind about that. Only I've got enough to have anything I
+want, and to give my friends something, too. So as soon as I got back.
+East I went straight down to the farm. But it was all shut up and a kind
+of green hedge where the fence used to be, and I judged it was sold, and
+I felt pretty sore about it, so I came right away."
+
+"They only come there in June," Miss Trueman explained, "and they go
+back before Thanksgiving."
+
+"Yes. Well, I didn't know that."
+
+He waited again for a few seconds, and Miss Trueman sat in respectful
+silence till he should continue.
+
+"You see, I'd been East once before, eight years ago, but I didn't see
+the farm then," he said finally.
+
+"I got married while I was West."
+
+His audience of one started slightly.
+
+"She's dead now," he added abruptly.
+
+"Oh, Cousin Lorando--"
+
+"You needn't bother about the sympathy, my dear, for there's none
+needed. I hadn't been with her for a good while. I saw her in a
+concert-hall out there, and she had curly hair and a kind of taking way
+with her, and so I married her. I'd just made a big hit, and she wanted
+to come to New York, and we came. We went to a big hotel, and it was
+dress-suits for me and diamonds for her, and we drove in a carriage in
+the park in the afternoon. She liked it, but I soon got enough. I don't
+care much for that sort of thing. She wanted to go to the theatre and
+see the girls that she'd been one of, you see, from the other side of
+the curtain. And she saw a man there she used to know, and--well, it
+turned out she liked him better, that's all."
+
+"Oh, Cousin Lorando, how terrible--for her!"
+
+"Um, yes. She didn't think it was specially terrible, I guess, though.
+She just packed up and went."
+
+"Went?"
+
+"Yes--with him, you see. Diamonds and all. I got a divorce, of course.
+And she wasn't such a bad lot, after all, for he hadn't any money to
+speak of, compared to me. It was the man she wanted. Well, she got him."
+
+"How awful!" Miss Trueman murmured.
+
+"Oh, yes, I felt pretty sick for a while. But we hadn't been any too
+happy before she saw him, you see. It was a big mistake. She wasn't
+exactly the kind of woman you'd be apt to know, you see. So perhaps I
+got off easier than I deserved. But I never would have married while she
+was alive. Not but what I had a right to, you understand, but I guess
+I'm old-fashioned more ways than one. I read about her death a year or
+so ago. I don't believe she had any too good a time herself. She had
+an awful temper. But she certainly did have pretty hair," he concluded
+thoughtfully.
+
+Miss Trueman gasped.
+
+"So I didn't want to see New York again; I just hated the place. And
+this time I only came because I found out you and the girls were here,
+and you were about all there was left. People die so. And I wanted to
+find out about the old place. I wanted to buy it, if I could, when I
+thought it was sold."
+
+"But, Cousin Lorando, I couldn't sell it!"
+
+"Oh, no, I s'pose not. Still, I might buy out the girls' thirds and rent
+yours, couldn't I? I'd pay you as much and more than anybody else would,
+I guess. And you could keep your interest. And keep half of the house,
+for that matter, to use when you wanted--it's big enough."
+
+"Why, yes, I don't see why I couldn't do that," she said thoughtfully.
+"That would be nice."
+
+"You see, I'm willing to make any arrangement, Cousin Jule. It's about
+all there is that I'm fond of now, that old place. I haven't any folks
+of my own, and not a chick nor child, and I love every stick and stone
+of that farm. I love the country, and I love Connecticut country best
+of all, I don't care if it is rocky. You can't make farming pay in New
+England any more. But I don't need to make it pay; I'm willing to pay
+for the pleasure of it. And I want to do something for the town, too. I
+want 'em to be glad I came to settle there. Who's got the keys?"
+
+"I have, right here," she answered. "The furniture is all ours, you see;
+they haven't brought much, only they've changed things all around. I
+haven't renewed the lease yet for this year."
+
+"Well, now, look here, Jule," Mr. Bean cried eagerly, dropping the end
+of his cigar into a bonbon-dish on the little side-table, "why don't you
+run right up there with me to-night, and we'll look it all over and
+sort of plan it out? We can go up on the six-thirty, and get there by
+half-past ten, and stop at the hotel, and be there all ready to look it
+over to-morrow. Now, how's that?"
+
+"Why, but, Cousin Lorando--I--there isn't time--I hadn't planned--"
+
+"Lord, neither had I, but what's the difference? If you want a thing
+done, go and do it yourself. Wouldn't you like to go? It's lovely
+up there; the spring's coming on fast, you know. I got lots of
+pussy-willow, and some little fellows told me there were May-flowers
+somewhere. You'll see more grass in a minute there than you can hunt up
+here in a week. Come on, Cousin Jule!"
+
+"I believe I will!" said Miss True-man, with conviction.
+
+"Just pack up a bag for your aunt, Carrie, while I get a cab," said Mr.
+Bean from the doorway. "We're going up to the old place--I'm thinking of
+buying it. I expect we'll be back tomorrow."
+
+"Your cousin appears to be a person of decision," Mrs. Ranger suggested
+to the still dazed Elise, as the cab rolled away.
+
+"I don't understand Aunt Ju-ju at all," Carolyn interpolated crossly.
+She had not been in the habit of packing her aunt's bag. "She usually
+makes such a fuss about starting to go anywhere--days ahead, in fact.
+And now at fifteen minutes' notice! And her best gown!"
+
+"It makes a difference, having a man to run it," said the novelist
+sagely.
+
+When two days had passed and their aunt had not yet appeared, her nieces
+were not unnecessarily alarmed, for her attachment to her old home was
+great, and it required no unusual degree of imagination to picture
+her delighted lingering over the old things, her purposely prolonged
+transaction of business details. But four days of unexplained absence
+had its effect upon their own little menage; and when a week's visit had
+been accomplished and their beseeching letters had elicited only vague
+postal cards explaining nothing, but suggesting their presence at the
+farm, they became convinced of the necessity for action on their part,
+and went, more or less in the presumable spirit of the mountain in
+search of the fractious Prophet.
+
+Tired and cross after four hours' travel on an incredibly hot 1st of
+April, they walked sternly up the board walk that led to the old-style
+porch, to be greeted by their cousin, who sat in snowy shirtsleeves,
+tilted back in his chair against the house, smoking his fat, dark cigar.
+
+"Welcome home, girls--glad to see you!" he called cheerily. "Here they
+are, Jule! Now don't be afraid, but come right out and see them!"
+
+"Why, bless your heart, Lorando, I'm not afraid," a familiar voice
+answered; and Aunt Julia appeared before them, cool in blue checked
+gingham, with an enveloping white apron and familiarly floury hands.
+
+"I'm just beating up some biscuit for tea," she explained, "but I guess
+you can shake hands with me, girls "; and as she extended both arms
+hospitably they saw upon her floured left hand an unmistakable shining
+gold band.
+
+"Aunt Jule!" they gasped together. "Are you--is it--"
+
+"That's it exactly," said Cousin Lorando Bean. "She is. And I hope
+you'll congratulate her, girls, though nobody knows better than I what a
+good housekeeper you've lost! I'll tell you the facts of the matter, and
+you can judge for yourself. If ever two people were made for each other,
+those two are your Aunt Jule and me. We love the country, and we love
+this farm, and what's very important, we love the same way of living."
+
+"That's quite true, Carrie--lyn," Aunt Julia interposed, the tears in
+her eyes, but a new decision in her voice.
+
+"I like my tea at night, and so does your Cousin Lorando. And I should
+have wanted gravy on my potato if I lived to be a hundred. And, Carrie,
+I _could not live_ without a cellar!
+
+"And if you knew how nervous I got when that old dumb-waiter in the
+kitchen used to whistle for the things to be put on it! I used to hate
+it so--sometimes I'd wake up in the night and think I heard it! Once I
+lost my temper at it, and I answered it back: 'I haven't anything to go
+down, and I wouldn't give it to you if I had!'"
+
+"Why, Aunt Jule!" they cried.
+
+"And I tell you, Carrie, when you have cleaned house regularly, spring
+and fall, for forty years, ever since you were born, it makes an awful
+break to give it up! And I do love a good crayon portrait."
+
+They looked at each other in silence.
+
+"And when you have a set of furniture, it makes me nervous not to have
+it set together," Aunt Julia went on determinedly.
+
+"And I will _not_ have a woman smoking in my house!
+
+"And oh, Carrie, if you knew how I suffered with that dirty darky girl!"
+
+"But--but, Aunt Jule, why didn't you--"
+
+"You see, Carrie and Lizzie, it was this way," said Mr. Bean soothingly.
+
+"Your aunt and I got talking old times, and we found that we both felt
+about the same. And after we'd looked the old house over together a day
+or two, she couldn't seem to leave it, somehow, and she couldn't live in
+it alone, and I always wanted it.
+
+"So I said, 'If you'll just step over to the parson's, across the
+street, with me, we'll fix this all right in about ten minutes. You've
+known me ever since I was a boy, and I've known you, and it's nobody's
+business but ours if we want to finish up together.' I may have said a
+few other things, too, but that's neither here nor there. And when she
+said what would the girls do, I told her that what with the full price
+of their interest in the farm, and her third that she could add to
+it--for a sort of wedding-present, you see--I didn't see but what you
+could well afford to take a trip to Europe and stay about as long as you
+liked--she said you wanted to do that more than anything; though why I
+don't know--Connecticut ought to be good enough for anybody!"
+
+They sank upon the porch steps, sincerely overcome.
+
+"I knew you'd like it when you came to know it all," said Aunt Julia
+placidly. "He's the kindest man--"
+
+And to their excited eyes the very tidies on the geometrically arranged
+chairs, the bright rag rugs on the floor, the biscuits and preserves
+consecrated to their New England tea, yes, even the insistent
+shirt-sleeves of Cousin Lorando Bean, were lighted by a halo of content.
+
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+    <div style="height: 8em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h1>
+      JULIA THE APOSTATE
+    </h1>
+    <h2>
+      By Josephine Daskam <br /> <br /> Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's
+      Sons
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You don't think it's too young for me, girls?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Young for you&mdash;<i>par exemple!</i> I should say not,&rdquo; her niece
+      replied, perking the quivering aigrette still more obliquely upon her
+      aunt's head. Carolyn used <i>par exemple</i> as a good cook uses onion&mdash;a
+      hint of it in everything. There were those who said that she interpolated
+      it in the Litany; but Carolyn, who was born Caroline and a Baptist, was
+      too much impressed by the liturgy of what she called The Church to insert
+      even an uncanonized comma.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now don't touch it, Aunt Julia, for it's deliciously chic, and if you had
+      your way you'd flatten it down right straight in the middle&mdash;you know
+      you would.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman pursed her lips quizzically.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I've always thought, Carrie&mdash;<i>lyn</i>,&rdquo; she added hastily, as her
+      niece scowled, &ldquo;that they put things askew to make 'em different&mdash;for
+      a change, as you might say. Now, if they're <i>never</i> in the middle,
+      it's about as tiresome, isn't it?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Elise, whose napkin-ring bore malignant witness to her loving aunt, Eliza
+      Judd, laughed irrepressibly: she had more sense of humor than her sister.
+      It was she who, though she had assisted in polishing the old copper kettle
+      subsequently utilized as a holder for the tongs and shovel, had refused to
+      consider the yet older wash-boiler in the light of a possible
+      coal-scuttle, greatly to the relief of her aunt, who blushed persistently
+      at any mention of the hearth.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She patted the older woman encouragingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's right, Aunt Ju-ju, argue it out!&rdquo; she advised.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman winced. She had never accustomed herself to those senseless
+      monosyllables that parodied her name; nor could she understand the frame
+      of mind that found them preferable to the comfortable &ldquo;Aunt Jule&rdquo; of the
+      old days.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ju-ju!&rdquo; Strips of unwholesome flesh-colored paste, sugar-sprinkled, dear
+      to her childish heart but loathed by a maturer palate, rose to her mind.
+      There had been another haunting recollection: for months she had been
+      unable to define it perfectly, though it had always brought a thrill of
+      disgust with its vague appeal. One day she caught it and told them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It was that dreadful creature Mr. Barnum exhibited,&rdquo; she declared, &ldquo;that
+      we didn't allow the children to go to see&mdash;Jo-jo, the Dog-faced Boy!
+      You remember?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Their cold horror, briefly expressed, had shown her that she had
+      trespassed too far on their indulgence, and she spoke of it no more, but
+      the memory rankled.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It's so strange you don't see how cunning it is,&rdquo; Carolyn complained;
+      &ldquo;everybody does it now. The whole Chatworth family have those names, Aunt
+      Ju, and it is the dearest thing to hear the old doctor call Captain Arthur
+      'Ga-ga.' You know that dignified sister with the lovely silvery hair?
+      Well, they all call her 'Looty.' And nobody thinks of Hunter Chatworth's
+      real name&mdash;he's always 'Toto.'&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And he has three children!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman sighed; the constitution of the modern family amazed her
+      endlessly. Ga-ga, indeed!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Do the children call him Toto, too?&rdquo; she demanded, with an attempt at
+      sarcasm, a conversational form to which she was by nature a stranger.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, I don't know about that,&rdquo; Carolyn answered carelessly. &ldquo;I suppose
+      not. Though plenty of children do, you know. Mrs. Ranger's little girl
+      always calls her mother Lou.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Mrs. Ranger&mdash;you mean the woman that smokes?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman's tone brought vividly to the mind a person dangling from
+      disgusted finger-tips a mouse or beetle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For heaven's sake, Aunt Jule&rdquo;&mdash;in moments of intense exasperation
+      they reverted unconsciously to the old form&mdash;&ldquo;don't speak of her as
+      if she smoked for a living!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I should rather not speak of her at all,&rdquo; said Miss Trueman severely.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They raised their eyebrows helplessly: Carolyn's irritation was so
+      unfeigned that she omitted a justly famous shrug.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      For two years they had devoted an appreciable part of their busy hours to
+      modifying Aunt Julia's antique prejudices, developing in her the latent
+      aesthetic sense that their Wednesday art class taught them existed in
+      every one, cajoling her into a tolerance of certain phases of modern
+      literature considered seriously and weekly by the Monday Afternoon Club,
+      and incidentally utilizing her as a chaperon and housekeeper in their
+      modest up-town apartment.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The first six months of her sojourn had been almost entirely occupied with
+      accustoming herself to the absence of an attic and a cellar; long days of
+      depression they learned, finally, to trace to this incredible source.
+      Later she dealt with the problem of subsisting from eight till one on two
+      rolls and a cup of coffee; successfully, in the ultimate issue, as
+      surreptitious bits of fried ham and buckwheat cakes, with suspicious
+      odors, winked at discreetly by her nieces, witnessed. It would have been
+      unkind, as Elise suggested, to criticise Aunt Ju-ju's performances at the
+      ungodly hour of seven in the morning, when their own correctly Continental
+      repast, flanked by a chrysanthemum in a tall vase, not only tallied so
+      accurately with their digestive and aesthetic necessities, but appeared,
+      moreover, with such gratifying regularity one hour later.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Both Carolyn and her sister had inherited from their mother, Miss
+      True-man's older sister, a real gift for teaching, and this, rather than
+      their respective abilities in art and music, enabled them to impart very
+      successfully the elements of these necessary branches to the young ladies
+      of a fashionable boarding-school just outside the city.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was politely regretted by their friends that they were unable to give
+      themselves unreservedly to the exercise of their art without the cramping
+      necessity for teaching; but it is probable that both the girls estimated
+      their not too extraordinary talents very sensibly, though far from
+      displeased by a more flattering judgment.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman, who possessed the characteristic veneration of the bred and
+      born New Englander for his native or imported school-ma'am, resented
+      persistently their somewhat patronizing attitude toward the profession
+      second only to the ministry in her stanch respect. A little of the simple
+      grandeur of those childhood days when &ldquo;the teacher boarded with them&rdquo;
+       clung with the ineradicable force of habit to her mind, and she could not
+      understand their restive attitude at &ldquo;the fine positions as teachers
+      Hattie's girls have got.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I'm sure you make more money than that Miss Seymour that gets her own
+      meals in her room&mdash;she said so herself.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, well, there are other things to be considered, Aunt Ju; and, anyway,
+      she's a real bohemian, Polly Seymour. There's a fascination in it.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There's no fascination in being hungry that I can see, and she admitted
+      that, L&mdash;Elise,&rdquo; Miss Trueman insisted severely. &ldquo;I don't understand
+      how she could have done it&mdash;I would have died first. And she seemed
+      to think it was a great joke to have her friends give her a dinner&mdash;I
+      think it was terrible.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, Aunt Jule, how ridiculous! We were delighted to do it&mdash;it was
+      perfectly dear of her to let us, too. And think of the people we met there&mdash;Rawlins
+      and Mr. Ware! You don't mind being poor if such men will come just out of
+      interest in you, I tell you. Do you remember, Elise, how Mr. Rawlins
+      called her 'little girl'? Mr. Ware lets her use his models whenever she
+      likes, too,&rdquo; Carolyn added respectfully.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, she's bound to arrive!&rdquo; Elise agreed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Aunt Ju-ju sniffed uncontrolledly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I should hope she'd arrive at the point where she could buy her own
+      dinners,&rdquo; she remarked. &ldquo;To be beholden for your bread&rdquo;...
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here were two points of view as little likely to coincide as the parallel
+      lines of science, and at some such stage as this the discussions were wont
+      to cease.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To-day the apartment was swept and garnished for a social function long
+      planned by the nieces. Carnations leaned from tall glass vases, intricate
+      little cakes jostled carefully piled sandwiches, and a huge brass samovar,
+      borrowed for the occasion, gave dignity to the small parlor. Miss Trueman
+      had learned by now the unwritten law that prevented the various objects in
+      the once proudly segregated &ldquo;drawing-room set&rdquo; from association with each
+      other, and made no attempt to correct their intentional isolation. The
+      samovar she refused utterly to meddle with, assuring them that she would
+      as soon think of running a locomotive.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As the guests began to arrive Miss Trueman found herself regarding them
+      even more critically than usual; an argumentative spirit rose in her, and
+      her calm contradiction of Mrs. Ranger, who discussed with great subtlety
+      the notable advantages&mdash;even from the artistic point of view&mdash;of
+      the approaching spring when experienced in the city, in comparison with
+      that be-rhymed season's vaunted country beauties, startled more than one
+      person.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Just because they're more delicate, just because you must look harder to
+      discover them, just because you must get as much from a pot of hyacinths
+      on the Avenue as from a whole field of primroses in the backwoods, you
+      know,&rdquo; she concluded, and the little circle nodded sagely and
+      congratulated themselves on an unpublished paragraph.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don't agree with you, Mrs. Ranger,&rdquo; said Aunt Ju-ju flatly, to the
+      absolute amazement of her nieces and the tolerant amusement of the
+      assembly. &ldquo;I guess you haven't lived in the country much, or you wouldn't
+      talk so. And primroses don't grow in fields here, anyway. If you could see
+      my hyacinths and crocuses in round beds at home, you wouldn't mention
+      those poor little stalks in the pots.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Mrs. Ranger laughed, and directed her searching, level glance at the older
+      woman, who combined in her comely, undisguised middle age something at
+      once more matronly and more childish than the analytic authoress could
+      ever find in her own mirror.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Aha!&rdquo; she cried, &ldquo;then you are no friend of dear old Horace, after all,
+      Miss Trueman! He and I, you see&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The relation of these two urbanites was revealed no further, for a bustle
+      in the little hall drew attention to a newcomer unknown not only to the
+      guests but evidently to the hostesses, who rose, smiling uncertainly, as a
+      portly, broad-shouldered man with iron-gray hair made his way through the
+      group about the samovar.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I'll have to introduce myself, I see,&rdquo; he began, not precisely with what
+      an exigent society calls ease of manner, but with a certain practical
+      self-possession quite as effective.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I didn't expect the girls to remember me, but I thought perhaps you
+      might, Julia.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman peered out from the shaded five-o'clock gloom so dear to
+      Carolyn's soul.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don't seem&mdash;it's not&mdash;why, Cousin Lorando Bean, it's not
+      you?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's it,&rdquo; he said heartily, &ldquo;that's just exactly it. And he's mighty
+      glad to see some of his relations again, I can tell you. And these are
+      Carrie and Lizzie, I suppose. Well, well, fifteen years is a long time,
+      even to an old fellow like me, and you girls were just beginning to be
+      young ladies when I left Connecticut. How are you all?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      If this simple greeting came like a breath of her native air to Miss
+      True-man, it cannot be said to have had a similar effect on her nieces.
+      Courtesy prevented a full expression of their feelings, but they affected
+      no undue delight at the presence of their new-found relative&mdash;whom
+      they had very sincerely forgotten, along with many other details of a
+      somewhat inartistic youth&mdash;and turned to their other guests with a
+      frank relief when they had established him, with a cup of tea, a sandwich,
+      and Aunt Julia, in the near-by dining-room.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A third or fourth cousin, I believe, who has lived a long time in the
+      West,&rdquo; they explained. The company, some of whom doubtless possessed third
+      or fourth cousins from the West, nodded comprehensively, and the
+      interrupted function flowed smoothly on again.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Cousin Lorando Bean balanced his cup on his broad palm and gazed about
+      appreciatively at the casts and water-colors on the dull green walls.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very snug little quarters, these,&rdquo; he volunteered, &ldquo;but, do you know,
+      Cousin Jule, I suppose it's all right for ladies, but I don't seem to
+      breathe extra well in these little rooms, somehow! I've been in two or
+      three of them like this, more or less, since I came to New York&mdash;people
+      I used to know that I've been hunting up&mdash;and, by George, I began to
+      feel as if I was getting red in the face, if you see what I mean.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, indeed, Cousin Lorando, I do,&rdquo; returned Miss Trueman eagerly, &ldquo;I see
+      exactly. And not having any cellar&mdash;you've no idea! Nor any attic,
+      either. And often and often we have the gas lighted all through breakfast.
+      Of course there are a great many conveniences,&rdquo; she added loyally, &ldquo;and
+      there's no doubt it saves steps. But I almost think I'd rather take 'em.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He nodded.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What's become of the old place, Cousin Jule? I judge you've been out of
+      it some time?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Two years, Cousin Lorando. The girls had been boarding up to then, and
+      when Aunt Martha died they got up this plan for me to come down and live
+      with them, for they couldn't afford it quite, alone, and then I could
+      chaperon them.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Aunt Julia delivered herself of this phrase with a certain complacency.
+      Mr. Bean looked up sharply.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That means that nobody gets a show to abduct 'em while you're around, I
+      take it?&rdquo; he inquired.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;We-ell, not exactly,&rdquo; she demurred.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But that's the idea? I thought so. Yes. How old is Lizzie now? Thirty?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, no, Cousin Lorando; L&mdash;&mdash; Elise isn't twenty-nine yet.
+      Carolyn is about thirty.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don't seem to recall any one chaperoning you and Hattie when you were
+      thirty,&rdquo; he suggested thoughtfully.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She laughed involuntarily.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, Hattie was married, Cousin Lorando, and the children were ten years
+      old! And, anyway, it was different then.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The girls were just as pretty, I guess,&rdquo; he insisted. &ldquo;And there were
+      plenty of buggies, if anybody had designs.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      There was a pause, and the buzz of voices from the other room rose loudly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;They've neither of them got their mother's looks,&rdquo; he observed; and then,
+      with apparent irrelevance: &ldquo;When will they be considered safe to go about
+      alone?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don't know exactly what you mean,&rdquo; she began a little coldly, but his
+      laugh reassured her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, yes, you do,&rdquo; he contradicted, &ldquo;and don't you be getting cross at
+      your Cousin Lorando Bean! You know I always loved to tease you; it made
+      your eyes snap&mdash;and it does now.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How can you?&rdquo; She looked reproachfully at him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And I tell you this, Cousin Jule: neither of those girls will ever get up
+      a color like that!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      She shook her head, but she was not displeased. He took out a fat
+      chocolate-colored cigar and fingered it wistfully.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I suppose I mustn't smoke?&rdquo; he queried.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Her quick answer surprised herself.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I should hope you could, if that woman can!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Which one?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That Mrs. Ranger, the one near the samovar&mdash;that big brass thing.
+      Liz&mdash;Elise didn't introduce her to you. They don't introduce people
+      the way they do at home, Cousin Lorando&mdash;I hope you didn't mind. They
+      think it's awkward.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, Lord, no, I don't mind. I can spare her, anyway. She's checked up too
+      high for me. But she can look you through pretty thoroughly, can't she?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;She writes books,&rdquo; Miss Trueman returned, the finality of her tone
+      indicating that she had explained any possible idiosyncrasy of the lady in
+      question.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, I see. And the little red-haired one, does she write books, too?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No; she's an artist. She smokes too, though. Not cigars, like yours, but
+      cigarettes. She's supposed to be a very good painter, but she doesn't make
+      what Carrie&mdash;lyn makes. The girls have very good positions in Miss
+      Abrams' school.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Um, what do they get, now?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman mentioned the modest sum with pride.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And then with my money and what we get from the rent of the place&mdash;the
+      girls and I each have a third, you know&mdash;we do very nicely.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So you rented the place?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, Cousin Lorando, though I hated to. But I wouldn't sell it, though
+      they wanted me to. I just couldn't.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I know.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He lighted his cigar and puffed at it in meditative silence for a moment,
+      while the babble from the parlor floated in with the odor of the Ceylon
+      tea and cigarettes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's what I came about, Cousin Jule&mdash;the old place. You may think
+      it's queer, for I never lived there but two years once, when father and
+      your Uncle Joe farmed it on shares; but those two years just made it home
+      to me. Of course Uncle Joe wasn't any real relation of mine, and you-all
+      weren't my real cousins, but it was the only family I ever had, so to say,
+      and I loved every one of you. Then we moved back into town; but you know I
+      came in every week or so, and Aunt Martha used to have my room in the
+      attic ready for me, just the same.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, I know; Aunt Martha never forgot you, Cousin Lorando.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, it's fifteen years since I saw the old place, and a lot's happened
+      since then, I tell you. First place, I'm a rich man, Cousin Jule.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, I don't mean one of these multi-millionaires you have about here, for
+      I haven't even seven figures opposite my name; but short of that I did
+      very well for myself out West there, and I earned it all fair, too&mdash;though
+      I was pretty lucky, and that counts.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Anyhow, never mind about that. Only I've got enough to have anything I
+      want, and to give my friends something, too. So as soon as I got back.
+      East I went straight down to the farm. But it was all shut up and a kind
+      of green hedge where the fence used to be, and I judged it was sold, and I
+      felt pretty sore about it, so I came right away.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;They only come there in June,&rdquo; Miss Trueman explained, &ldquo;and they go back
+      before Thanksgiving.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes. Well, I didn't know that.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He waited again for a few seconds, and Miss Trueman sat in respectful
+      silence till he should continue.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You see, I'd been East once before, eight years ago, but I didn't see the
+      farm then,&rdquo; he said finally.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I got married while I was West.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      His audience of one started slightly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;She's dead now,&rdquo; he added abruptly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, Cousin Lorando&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You needn't bother about the sympathy, my dear, for there's none needed.
+      I hadn't been with her for a good while. I saw her in a concert-hall out
+      there, and she had curly hair and a kind of taking way with her, and so I
+      married her. I'd just made a big hit, and she wanted to come to New York,
+      and we came. We went to a big hotel, and it was dress-suits for me and
+      diamonds for her, and we drove in a carriage in the park in the afternoon.
+      She liked it, but I soon got enough. I don't care much for that sort of
+      thing. She wanted to go to the theatre and see the girls that she'd been
+      one of, you see, from the other side of the curtain. And she saw a man
+      there she used to know, and&mdash;well, it turned out she liked him
+      better, that's all.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, Cousin Lorando, how terrible&mdash;for her!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Um, yes. She didn't think it was specially terrible, I guess, though. She
+      just packed up and went.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Went?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes&mdash;with him, you see. Diamonds and all. I got a divorce, of
+      course. And she wasn't such a bad lot, after all, for he hadn't any money
+      to speak of, compared to me. It was the man she wanted. Well, she got
+      him.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How awful!&rdquo; Miss Trueman murmured.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, yes, I felt pretty sick for a while. But we hadn't been any too happy
+      before she saw him, you see. It was a big mistake. She wasn't exactly the
+      kind of woman you'd be apt to know, you see. So perhaps I got off easier
+      than I deserved. But I never would have married while she was alive. Not
+      but what I had a right to, you understand, but I guess I'm old-fashioned
+      more ways than one. I read about her death a year or so ago. I don't
+      believe she had any too good a time herself. She had an awful temper. But
+      she certainly did have pretty hair,&rdquo; he concluded thoughtfully.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Miss Trueman gasped.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So I didn't want to see New York again; I just hated the place. And this
+      time I only came because I found out you and the girls were here, and you
+      were about all there was left. People die so. And I wanted to find out
+      about the old place. I wanted to buy it, if I could, when I thought it was
+      sold.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But, Cousin Lorando, I couldn't sell it!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, no, I s'pose not. Still, I might buy out the girls' thirds and rent
+      yours, couldn't I? I'd pay you as much and more than anybody else would, I
+      guess. And you could keep your interest. And keep half of the house, for
+      that matter, to use when you wanted&mdash;it's big enough.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, yes, I don't see why I couldn't do that,&rdquo; she said thoughtfully.
+      &ldquo;That would be nice.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You see, I'm willing to make any arrangement, Cousin Jule. It's about all
+      there is that I'm fond of now, that old place. I haven't any folks of my
+      own, and not a chick nor child, and I love every stick and stone of that
+      farm. I love the country, and I love Connecticut country best of all, I
+      don't care if it is rocky. You can't make farming pay in New England any
+      more. But I don't need to make it pay; I'm willing to pay for the pleasure
+      of it. And I want to do something for the town, too. I want 'em to be glad
+      I came to settle there. Who's got the keys?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have, right here,&rdquo; she answered. &ldquo;The furniture is all ours, you see;
+      they haven't brought much, only they've changed things all around. I
+      haven't renewed the lease yet for this year.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, now, look here, Jule,&rdquo; Mr. Bean cried eagerly, dropping the end of
+      his cigar into a bonbon-dish on the little side-table, &ldquo;why don't you run
+      right up there with me to-night, and we'll look it all over and sort of
+      plan it out? We can go up on the six-thirty, and get there by half-past
+      ten, and stop at the hotel, and be there all ready to look it over
+      to-morrow. Now, how's that?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, but, Cousin Lorando&mdash;I&mdash;there isn't time&mdash;I hadn't
+      planned&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Lord, neither had I, but what's the difference? If you want a thing done,
+      go and do it yourself. Wouldn't you like to go? It's lovely up there; the
+      spring's coming on fast, you know. I got lots of pussy-willow, and some
+      little fellows told me there were May-flowers somewhere. You'll see more
+      grass in a minute there than you can hunt up here in a week. Come on,
+      Cousin Jule!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I believe I will!&rdquo; said Miss True-man, with conviction.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Just pack up a bag for your aunt, Carrie, while I get a cab,&rdquo; said Mr.
+      Bean from the doorway. &ldquo;We're going up to the old place&mdash;I'm thinking
+      of buying it. I expect we'll be back tomorrow.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your cousin appears to be a person of decision,&rdquo; Mrs. Ranger suggested to
+      the still dazed Elise, as the cab rolled away.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don't understand Aunt Ju-ju at all,&rdquo; Carolyn interpolated crossly. She
+      had not been in the habit of packing her aunt's bag. &ldquo;She usually makes
+      such a fuss about starting to go anywhere&mdash;days ahead, in fact. And
+      now at fifteen minutes' notice! And her best gown!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It makes a difference, having a man to run it,&rdquo; said the novelist sagely.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When two days had passed and their aunt had not yet appeared, her nieces
+      were not unnecessarily alarmed, for her attachment to her old home was
+      great, and it required no unusual degree of imagination to picture her
+      delighted lingering over the old things, her purposely prolonged
+      transaction of business details. But four days of unexplained absence had
+      its effect upon their own little ménage; and when a week's visit had been
+      accomplished and their beseeching letters had elicited only vague postal
+      cards explaining nothing, but suggesting their presence at the farm, they
+      became convinced of the necessity for action on their part, and went, more
+      or less in the presumable spirit of the mountain in search of the
+      fractious Prophet.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Tired and cross after four hours' travel on an incredibly hot 1st of
+      April, they walked sternly up the board walk that led to the old-style
+      porch, to be greeted by their cousin, who sat in snowy shirtsleeves,
+      tilted back in his chair against the house, smoking his fat, dark cigar.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Welcome home, girls&mdash;glad to see you!&rdquo; he called cheerily. &ldquo;Here
+      they are, Jule! Now don't be afraid, but come right out and see them!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, bless your heart, Lorando, I'm not afraid,&rdquo; a familiar voice
+      answered; and Aunt Julia appeared before them, cool in blue checked
+      gingham, with an enveloping white apron and familiarly floury hands.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I'm just beating up some biscuit for tea,&rdquo; she explained, &ldquo;but I guess
+      you can shake hands with me, girls &ldquo;; and as she extended both arms
+      hospitably they saw upon her floured left hand an unmistakable shining
+      gold band.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Aunt Jule!&rdquo; they gasped together. &ldquo;Are you&mdash;is it&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's it exactly,&rdquo; said Cousin Lorando Bean. &ldquo;She is. And I hope you'll
+      congratulate her, girls, though nobody knows better than I what a good
+      housekeeper you've lost! I'll tell you the facts of the matter, and you
+      can judge for yourself. If ever two people were made for each other, those
+      two are your Aunt Jule and me. We love the country, and we love this farm,
+      and what's very important, we love the same way of living.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's quite true, Carrie&mdash;lyn,&rdquo; Aunt Julia interposed, the tears in
+      her eyes, but a new decision in her voice.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I like my tea at night, and so does your Cousin Lorando. And I should
+      have wanted gravy on my potato if I lived to be a hundred. And, Carrie, I
+      <i>could not live</i> without a cellar!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And if you knew how nervous I got when that old dumb-waiter in the
+      kitchen used to whistle for the things to be put on it! I used to hate it
+      so&mdash;sometimes I'd wake up in the night and think I heard it! Once I
+      lost my temper at it, and I answered it back: 'I haven't anything to go
+      down, and I wouldn't give it to you if I had!'&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, Aunt Jule!&rdquo; they cried.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And I tell you, Carrie, when you have cleaned house regularly, spring and
+      fall, for forty years, ever since you were born, it makes an awful break
+      to give it up! And I do love a good crayon portrait.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      They looked at each other in silence.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And when you have a set of furniture, it makes me nervous not to have it
+      set together,&rdquo; Aunt Julia went on determinedly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And I will <i>not</i> have a woman smoking in my house!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And oh, Carrie, if you knew how I suffered with that dirty darky girl!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But&mdash;but, Aunt Jule, why didn't you&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You see, Carrie and Lizzie, it was this way,&rdquo; said Mr. Bean soothingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your aunt and I got talking old times, and we found that we both felt
+      about the same. And after we'd looked the old house over together a day or
+      two, she couldn't seem to leave it, somehow, and she couldn't live in it
+      alone, and I always wanted it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So I said, 'If you'll just step over to the parson's, across the street,
+      with me, we'll fix this all right in about ten minutes. You've known me
+      ever since I was a boy, and I've known you, and it's nobody's business but
+      ours if we want to finish up together.' I may have said a few other
+      things, too, but that's neither here nor there. And when she said what
+      would the girls do, I told her that what with the full price of their
+      interest in the farm, and her third that she could add to it&mdash;for a
+      sort of wedding-present, you see&mdash;I didn't see but what you could
+      well afford to take a trip to Europe and stay about as long as you liked&mdash;she
+      said you wanted to do that more than anything; though why I don't know&mdash;Connecticut
+      ought to be good enough for anybody!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      They sank upon the porch steps, sincerely overcome.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I knew you'd like it when you came to know it all,&rdquo; said Aunt Julia
+      placidly. &ldquo;He's the kindest man&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      And to their excited eyes the very tidies on the geometrically arranged
+      chairs, the bright rag rugs on the floor, the biscuits and preserves
+      consecrated to their New England tea, yes, even the insistent
+      shirt-sleeves of Cousin Lorando Bean, were lighted by a halo of content.
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 6em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
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