Mabelle, a chatelaine now, wanted to shine among
them, and wantedSidney to shine.
Maybe we might take the kidsthis summer and make a
little tour for a couple weeks or so.
Maybe youd be better as a dentist
anyway.
He might scratch you, and youll get fleas
andthings. There was no manner of use in trying to cajole her.
Thiswas not just air, necessary meat for the lungs;
it was a spiritthat filled him. Willis stooped to pull the tail of Adolphus Josephus
Mudface, now ahalf-grown cat. But Sidney Dow wasdescended from generations of
Georges and Johns, of Lorens andLukes and Nathans. There was no manner of use in
trying to cajole her. I guess maybe Id like to be a truck driver, mumbled
Sidney.
Youre going plumb in the wrong
direction.
Youre pretty fair at working, said Uncle Rob, and
that waspraise almost hysterical. Itwas a roaring silence, a silence full of stifled
threats.
What areyou going to do with yourself, anyway? They
slept at Rutland, Sidney all impatient of the citified hotelbedroom.
I hear its nice up around Niagara Falls andthe
Great Lakes. Hardly know theold doc, my patients wouldnt!
And attend a little one-room school with aboob for
a teacher?
I have a hunch Im going to get double
pinochle.
And he was under her spellas he had been under his
fathers.
He braced himself to hear a jeering You andyour old
garden!