Excerpt: ...duster, and sat down beside her sister. "It's new to us all," she said despairingly. "We never heard of it till last night. What will that girl do next? She detests children, and she has about as much idea of discipline as she has about-raising poultry. It is Isabel St. John's doing, I know. She is Babe's best-beloved friend; and where one leads, the other will follow." "Babe seems to be in earnest about it," Hope said charitably. "She's in earnest about everything-by fits and starts. It only doesn't last. She ...
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Excerpt: ...duster, and sat down beside her sister. "It's new to us all," she said despairingly. "We never heard of it till last night. What will that girl do next? She detests children, and she has about as much idea of discipline as she has about-raising poultry. It is Isabel St. John's doing, I know. She is Babe's best-beloved friend; and where one leads, the other will follow." "Babe seems to be in earnest about it," Hope said charitably. "She's in earnest about everything-by fits and starts. It only doesn't last. She seems to be losing something of her medical fervor, and probably this is taking its place. I suppose she has met somebody who slums for a living, and the idea enchants her. I used to have aspirations that way, myself; but I am coming to the conclusion that for me charity begins at home, and that it counts for more to make Billy comfortable than to make his life a burden with my hobbies." "Blunt as ever, Teddy?" Hope's laugh had no sting. "Yes. I haven't reformed yet. Things 'rile' me, just as they used to, things and people. I'm a good hater, Hope." There was a suspicious glitter in her eyes; but it vanished, as Hope's hand touched her own. "And a good lover, too, dear. I wasn't criticising, for I think you are in the right of it. But Babe really seems rather practical. She only wants the child for a week, and she agrees to take all the care of it and give it its meals away from the table." "Yes; but what will she do with it?" Theodora's tone showed her perplexity. "There's no telling what may happen in the course of a week. She will test all the theories of all the cranks on the one poor baby, one theory a day, and by the end of the week, there won't be any baby left to send home again." "My chief worry is for Mac," Hope said resignedly. "Oh, I don't think the child will hurt him," Theodora reassured her. "They won't dare send a very bad one." "No; but it may work the other way about. I am a good deal more worried in regard to Mac's effect...
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