It grew still pleasanter to see as she smiled and looked up at him
with the soft yet bright expression that always made him think of
her mother.
"I'm glad you don't consider me an entire failure, uncle. You know
you predicted it. But though I have gone through a good deal, I
don't regret my attempt, and when I look at Pansy I feel as if I'd
made a grand success."
"You haven't made much money, I guess. If you don't mind tellin',
what have you got to live on?" asked the old man, unwilling to
acknowledge any life a success, if dollars and cents were left out
of it.
"Only David's pension and what I can make by my garden."
"The old lady has to have some on't, don't she?" "She has a little
money of her own; but I see that she and Letty have two-thirds of
all I make."
"That ain't a fair bargain if you do all the work." "Ah, but we
don't make bargains, sir: we work for one another and share every
thing together."
"So like women!" grumbled Uncle Enos, longing to see that "the
property was fixed up square."
"SHE'S A GOOD LITTLE GAL! LOOKS CONSID'ABLE LIKE YOU."
"How are you goin' to eddicate the little gal? I s'pose you think as
much of culter and so on as ever you did," he presently added with a
gruff laugh.
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