StNicholas [serial] . , Aunty, laughedBab. How pretty and young and girlishAunt Millicent seemed when you were perchedso near to her, and how dainty and beautiful waseverything about her. We just tell daddy-doctorand motherling everything, especially mother. Wealways say, all we girls, that she s our best chum,though daddy is a darling. Daddy says some day hejust expects to find her smothered with girls does have five pairs of them about her atonce, sometimes; but he is only funning. How lovely, sighed Aunt Millicent. Then when we go to bed she always comes totuck us in and say good n
StNicholas [serial] . , Aunty, laughedBab. How pretty and young and girlishAunt Millicent seemed when you were perchedso near to her, and how dainty and beautiful waseverything about her. We just tell daddy-doctorand motherling everything, especially mother. Wealways say, all we girls, that she s our best chum,though daddy is a darling. Daddy says some day hejust expects to find her smothered with girls does have five pairs of them about her atonce, sometimes; but he is only funning. How lovely, sighed Aunt Millicent. Then when we go to bed she always comes totuck us in and say good night, and in the morn-ings she always comes to wake us with a kiss andsay: Up, Lucy, up; Mary was up at six, shealways says that. I have put Jean to bed but a very few times, said Aunt Millicent, and I have never dressedher in my life. Her nurses always did that. Oh! gasped Bab. You think you would nt have liked that?You would rather have had your mother ? MaybeJean would have, too. I should think she would! said z5# 1 DON T KNOW HOW 1 LL DO IT, SAID BAB, BUT ICAN HELP, AND I WILL. Poor Jean knows her father even less thanher mother, sighed Aunt Millicent. She satvery still for a bit, and then asked with a littletremble on her voice : Bab, if your mother had nt been with you asyours has been—if she had nt understood that ifshe really wanted the tenderest love of her little 1908.] THE GENTLE INTERFERENCE OF BAB 313 girl she must begin in that first cozy time—doyou think you could learn, if she tried very hardto teach you, learn to love her dearly? Then Bab turned and took Aunt Millicentsface between her hands, and looked right into thegray eyes with her own blue ones, bright withlove and longing to help. Aunt Millicent, she said. Aunt Millicent,you mean Jean and you! And your heart is justaching to get close, close to Jean, as mothers isto us, and you want me to help. Is nt that it ?Oh, I m sure that s what you mean! Aunt Millicent nodded, and her gray eyes filledwith
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