In vain he clambered up over the hillside in a desperate hurry; the girls were always before him with lighted candles. As for the clock, it held up its hands with astonishment2, and struck five shrill3 exclamation4 points of surprise to see six wide-awake young persons tumbling out of their warm nests before the world was lighted or heated.
The day’s hours were hardly enough for the day’s plans, for there were farewell coasting, skating, and sleighing parties, besides active daily preparations for the pantomime. The costumes of the hoys were gorgeous to behold5, and were fashioned entirely6 by the girls’ clever fingers. They consisted of scarlet7 or blue flannel8 shirts, short plaid kilts, colored stockings striped with braid, sashes worn over shoulders, and jaunty9 little caps with bobbing quills10.
On the last happy evening of their stay, the eventful evening of “Young Lochinvar,” the guests gathered from all the surrounding country to see the frolic. There were people from North Edgewood, South Edgewood, East Edge-wood, and West Edgewood; from Edgewood Upper Corner, Edgewood Lower Corner, and Edgewood Four Corners, and everybody had brought his uncles and cousins.
In the big dressing-room the young actors were assembled,—and fortunately in a high state of exuberance11 and excitement, else they would have been decidedly frightened at the ordeal13 before them. Jo, mirror in hand, was trying to make herself look seventy; and, though she had not succeeded, she had transformed herself into a very presentable Scottish dame14, with her short satin gown and apron15, lace kerchief and spectacles. Edith was giving a pair of pointed16 burnt-cork eyebrows17 to Hugh, that he might wear a sufficiently18 dashing and defiant19 countenance20 for Lochinvar, while Jack21 stood before the glass practicing his meek22 expression for the jilted bridegroom.
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Bell had sunk into a chair, and folded her hands to “get up” her courage. As to her dress, nobody knew whether it was the proper one for a Scottish bride or not; but it was the only available thing, and certainly she looked in it a very bewitching and sufficient excuse for Lochinvar’s rash folly23. It was of some shining white material, and came below the ankle, just showing a pair of jaunty high-heeled slippers24; the skirt was ‘broidered and flounced to the belt, the waist simple and full, with short puffed25 sleeves; while a bridal veil and dainty crown of flowers made her as winsome26 and bonny as a white Scottish rose. Emma Jane Perkins stood in one corner paralyzed by her own good looks. Her red hair was waved and hanging in her neck, and her dress was white. She hoped she could be trusted to bring in this overpowering weight of beauty at the right moment, but felt a little doubtful.
Uncle Harry27 stumbled in at the low door.
“Are you ready, young fry?” asked he. “It is half-past seven, and we ought to begin.”
“Put out the footlights, give the people back their money, and tell them the prima donna is dangerously ill!” gasped28 Bell, faintly, fanning herself with a box-cover. “I don’t believe I can ever do it. Hugh, are you perfectly29 sure our horse won’t break down on the stage when we elope?”
“Calm yourself, ‘fair Ellen,’ and trust to my horsemanship. Doesn’t the poem say:
‘Through all the wide Border his steed
was the best?
“And doesn’t this exactly embody31 Scott’s idea?”—pointing to a wild and cross-eyed wooden effigy32 mounted on a pair of trucks.
You have all read Sir Walter Scott’s poem of “Young Lochinvar,” and many a time, I hope, for they are brave old verses:
Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the
West,
Through all the wide Border his steed
was the best,
And, save his good broadsword, he
weapons had none;
He rode all unarmed, and he rode all
alone.
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in
war,
There never was knight33 like the young
Lochinvar.
And then, you remember, the young knight rode fast and far, stayed not for brakes, stopped not for stones, but all in vain; for ere he alighted at Netherby Gate, the fair Ellen, overcome by parental34 authority, had consented to be married to another:
For a laggard35 in love and a dastard36 in
war
Was to wed37 the fair Ellen of brave
Lochinvar.
But he, nothing daunted38, boldly entered the bridal hall among bridemen and bridemaids and kinsmen39, thereby40 raising so general a commotion41 that the bride’s father cried at once, the poor craven bridegroom being struck quite dumb:
“Oh, come ye in peace here, or coyne ye
inivar,
Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord
Lochinvar?”
The lover answers with apparent indifference42 that though he has in past times been exceedingly fond of the young person called Ellen, he has now merely come to tread a measure and drink one cup of wine with her, for although love swells44 like the tide, it ebbs45 like it also. So he drinks her health, while she sighs and blushes, weeps and smiles, alternately; then he takes her soft hand, her parents fretting46 and fuming47 the while, and leads the dance with her,—he so stately, she so lovely, that they are the subject of much envy, admiration48, and sympathy. But while thus treading the measure, he whispers in her ear something to which she apparently49 consents without much unwillingness50, and at the right moment they dance out from the crowd of kinsmen to the door of the great hall, where in the darkness the charger stands ready saddled. Quick as thought the dauntless lover swings his fair Ellen lightly up, springs before her on the saddle, and they dash furiously away:
“She is won! We are gone, over ban,
bush, and scaur;
They’ll have fleet steeds that follow
quoth young Lochinvar.
As soon as their flight is discovered, there is wild excitement and hasty mounting of all the Netherby Clan52; there is racing53 and chasing over the fields, but “the laggard in love and the dastard in war” never recovers his lost Ellen.
So daring in love, and so dauntless in
war,
Have ye e’er heard of gallant54 like
young Lochinvar?
Uncle Harry read the poem through in such a stirring way that the audience was fairly warmed into interest; then, standing55 by the side of the stage with the curtain rolled up, he read it again, line by line, or verse by verse, to explain the action.
During the first stanza56, Lochinvar made his triumphal entrance, riding a prancing57 hobby-horse with a sweeping58 tail of raveled rope, and a mane to match, gorgeous trappings adorned59 with sleigh-bells and ornamental60 paper designs, and bunches of cotton tacked61 on for flecks62 of foam63.
Lochinvar himself wore gray pasteboard armor, a pair of carpet slippers with ferocious64 spurs, red mittens65, and carried a huge carving-knife. His costume alone was food for amusement, but the manner in which he careered wildly about the stage, displaying his valorous horsemanship as he rode to the wedding, was perfectly irresistible66.
The next scene opened in Netherby Hall, showing the bridal party all assembled in gala dress. Into this family gathering67 presently strode the determined68 lover, with his carving-knife sheathed69 for politeness’ sake. Then followed a comical pantomime between the angry parents, who demanded his intentions, and the adroit70 Lochinvar, who declared them to be peaceful. The father (Geoffrey Strong) at last gave him unwilling51 permission to drink one cup of wine and tread one measure with the bride. She kissed the goblet71 (a tin quart measure), he quaffed72 off the spirit, and threw down the cup. Pair Ellen bridled73 with pleasure, and promenaded74 about the room on his arm, while the bridegroom looked on wretchedly, the parents quarreled, and the bride-maidens whispered:
“‘Tivere better by far
To have matched our fair cousin with
young Lochinvar.”
At the first opportunity, the guests walked leisurely75 out, and young Lochinvar seized an imaginary chance to draw Ellen hastily back into the supper room. He whispered the magic word into her ear, she started in horror and drew back; he urged; she demurred76; he pleaded; she showed signs of surrender; he begged on his bended knees; she yielded at length to the plan of the elopement, with all its delightful77 risks. Then Lochinvar darted78 to the outside door and brought in his charger,—rather an unique proceeding79, perhaps, but necessary under the circumstances, inasmuch as the audience could not be transported to the proper scene of the mounting. As the flight was to be made on horseback, much ingenuity80 and labor81 were needed to arrange it artistically82. The horse’s head was the work of Geoff’s hand, and for meekness83 of expression, jadedness, utterly-cast-down-and-worn-out-ness, it stood absolutely unrivalled. A pair of trucks were secreted84 beneath the horse-blankets, and the front legs of the animal pranced85 gaily86 out in front, taking that startling and decided12 curve only seen in pictures of mowing-machines and horseraces. Lochinvar quieted his fiery87 beast, and swung Ellen into the saddle, leaped up after her, waved his tall hat in triumph, and started off at a snail’s pace, the horse being dragged by a rope from behind the scenes. When half way across the stage, Ellen clasped her lover’s arm and seemed to have forgotten something. Everybody in the room at once guessed it must be some part of her trousseau. She explained earnestly in pantomime; Lochinvar refused to return; she insisted; he remained firm; she pouted88 and seemingly said that she wouldn’t elope at all unless she could have her own way. He relented, they went back to Netherby Hall, and Ellen ran up a secret stairway and came down laden89 with maidenly90 traps. Greatly to the merriment of the observers, she loaded them on the docile91 horse in the very face of Lochinvar’s displeasure—two small looking-glasses, a bird-cage, and a French bonnet92. She then leisurely drew on a pair of huge India rubbers, unfurled a yellow linen93 umbrella, and just as her lover’s patience was ebbing94, suffered herself to be remounted. The second trip across the stage was accomplished95 in safety, though with anything but the fleetness common to elopements either in life or in poetry.
Then came the pursuit—a most graphic96 and stirring scene, giving large opportunities to the supernumerary characters. Four bridemen on dashing hobbyhorses, jumping fences, leaping bars and ditches in hot excitement; four bride-maids, with handkerchiefs tied over their heads, running hither and thither97 in confusion; the old mother and father, limping in and straining their eyes for a sight of their refractory98 daughter; and last of all, poor Jack, the deserted99 bridegroom, on foot, with never a horse left to him, puffing100 and panting in his angry chase.
It was done! How people laughed till they cried, how they continued to laugh for five minutes afterward101, I cannot begin to tell you. The performance had been the perfection of fun from first to last, and seemed all the more inspiring because it was original with the bright bevy102 of young folks who had enacted103 the poem. Uncle Harry had renewed his youth, and received the plaudits of the crowd with unconcealed pleasure. The hero and heroine, Lochinvar and fair Ellen, had so generously provided dramatic opportunities for the minor104 actors that all had enjoyed an equal chance in the favor of the audience. There was neither envy, jealousy105, nor heartburning; each of the girls gloried in the achievements of the others, and confessed that the mechanical ingenuity of the boys had made the triumph possible.
At length the lights were all out, the finery bundled up, the many farewells said, and as the girls, escorted by their faithful young squires106, trudged107 along the path through the orchard108 for the last time, sad thoughts would come, although the party was much too youthful and cheery to be gloomy.
“Depart, fun and frolic!” sighed Lilia, in mournful tones. “Depart, breakfasts at any hour and other delights of laziness! Enter, boarding-school, books, bells, and other banes of existence!”
“It is really too awful to think or to speak about,” sighed Jo. “Now I know how Eve must have felt when she had to pack up and leave the garden; only she went because she insisted upon eating of the tree of knowledge, while I must go and eat, whether I will or not.”
“Your appetite for that special fruit isn’t so great that you’ll ever be troubled with indigestion,” dryly rejoined Patty, the student of the “Jolly Six.”
“Fancy starting off at half-past ten to-morrow morning; fancy reaching school at one, and sitting down stupidly to a dinner of broth109, fried liver, and cracker-pudding! Ugh! it makes me shiver,” said Alice.
“Think of us,” cried Geoff, “going back to college, and settling into regular ‘digs.’”
“If ‘digs’ is a contraction110 of dignitaries,” said Edith, saucily111, “you’ll never be those; if you mean you are to delve112 into the mines of learning, that’s doubtful, too; but if it’s a corruption113 of Digger Indian, I should say there might be some force in your remark. Oh, what matchless war-whoops you gave in the pursuit to-night. Every separate hair in Betty Bean’s head stood on end, and the Misses Sawyer sat close together and trembled visibly!”
“It was a wonderful evening,” remarked Hugh. “There were persons there who said that Bell was beautiful and I was clever.”
“I don’t want to annoy you,” laughed Jo, “but I heard exactly the opposite.”
“Which only goes to show that both of us are both,” retorted Bell.
“And that sentence goes to show that a week’s absence from the class in parsing114 and analysis has had its effect,” said Patty. “Look at our angel cottage, girls! Doesn’t it look like a marble night-lamp with the hall light shining through all its sweet little windows’?”
“The fire isn’t out, that’s fortunate,” observed Alice, as she saw a small cloud of smoke issuing from the chimney.
“Good night and sweet dreams,” called the hoys, when Geoffrey had unlocked the door of the cottage.
“Sweet dreams, indeed!” the girls answered in chorus. “The kitchen closet to put in order, also the shed, two trunks to pack, twenty-four hours’ dishes to wash, and a million ‘odd jobs’ more or less.”
“Don’t forget the borrowed articles to be returned,” reminded Hugh. “We’ll take the pung and do that for you, also attend to the cleaning of the shed, which is more in our line than yours. Boys, let us give one rousing cheer for Dr. and Mrs. Winship, the model parents of the century!”
The welkin rang with hurrahs, in which the girls joined with hearty116 vigor117.
“Now another rousing one for the model daughter of the century,” cried Bell, modestly; “the model daughter who had the bright idea and begged the model parents to assent118 to it. Of what use would have been the model parents, pray, unless they had had the model daughter with the bright idea?”
More cheers, lustier than ever, floated out into the orchard.
“The model daughter would have had a dull house-party with nothing but her bright idea to keep her company,” said Jo Fenton, suggestively.
“Three cheers for the house party! Three cheers for the ‘Jolly Six!’ Hip30, hip, hurrah115!” and at this moment Uncle Harry’s window opened and across the breadth of the orchard came the warning note of a conch shell, an instrument of much power, with which Uncle Harry called his men to dinner in haying time. Had it not been for this message of correction it is possible the enthusiastic young people might have cheered one another till midnight.
It was afternoon of the next day. The six little housekeepers were gone, and the dejected hoys went into the garden to take a last look at the empty cottage. On the door was a long piece of fluttering white paper, tied with black ribbon. It proved to be the parting words of the “Jolly Six.”
How dear to our hearts are the scenes of
vacation,
When fond recollection presents them
to view!
The coasting, the sleigh-rides, and—chief
recreation—
That gayest of picnics with squires so
true!
And note, torn away from the loved situ-
ation,
The hump of conceit119 will explosively
swell43,
As proudly we think, never since the
creation,
Did any young housekeepers keep
house so well!
Think not our great genius too highly
we’ve rated,
For all that belongs to the kitchen we
know;
And feel that from infancy120 we have been
fated
For scrubbing and cooking, far more
than for show.
The cook-stove and dish-pan to us are so
charming,
So toothsome the compounds we often
have mixed,
That though you would think the news
somewhat alarming,
On housekeeping ever our minds are
quite fixed121.
Good-by to all hope of a fame uni-
versal!
Farewell, vain ambition,—that way
madness lies!
The rest of our youth shall be one long
rehearsal122
For life in six cottages, all of this
size!
B. W.
J. F.
P. W.
A. F.
E. L.
L. P.
X
Their joint123 mark.
Witnessed by me this morning,
Jack Frost, Notary124 Public.
Sealed with a snow flake125.
The boys read this nonsense with hearty laughter, and latching126 the gate behind them, they went off, leaving the place deserted.
“They are awfully127 jolly girls,” said Jack.
“Better than jolly,” added Geoffrey, thoughtfully.
“You’re right, Geoff; miles better and miles more than jolly,” agreed Hugh. “None like’em in Brunswick.”
“Or in Portland.”
“Or in Bath.”
“Or in Augusta.”
And with this outburst of respectful admiration the lads passed out of view.
The setting sun shone rosily128 in at the piazza129 window that afternoon, but fell blankly against a gray curtain, instead of smiling into six laughing faces as before.
A noisy crowd of sparrows settled on the bare branches over the door-step, twittering as if they expected the supper of bread-crumbs which girlish hands had been wont130 to throw them, and at last flew away disappointed. In the old house opposite, Miss Miranda sat in her high-backed chair, knitting as fiercely as ever, while Miss Jane was at her post by the window, drearily131 watching the sun go down.
She turned away with the glow of a new thought in her wrinkled face. “Mi-randy!” called she, sharply.
No answer but the sharp click of knitting-needles.
“Mirandy Sawyer! What do you say to invitin’ our niece, Hannah, down here from the farm, and givin’ her a couple of terms’ schoolin’? Aurelia has her hands full raisin’ that great family of children. She’d be glad one of ’em should have some advantages. We ain’t seen Hannah since she was ten, but she was a nice appearin’, pretty behavin’ girl.”
Miranda glanced ont of the window without speaking.
“It seems like a streak132 of sunshine had gone out o’ the place with them young creeters, and I think we’ve lived here alone about long enough!” continued Miss Jane. “I should like to give one girl a chance of being a brighter, livelier woman than I am. Yes, you may drop your knittin’, Mirandy, but you know it as well as I do!”
No wonder that Miss Miranda looked very much as if she had been struck by lightning; the more wonder that the quiet old house didn’t shake to its foundation, when this proposal was made. Indeed, old Tabby, on the hearth-rug, did wake up, startled, no doubt by the consciousness that a child’s hand might pull her tail in days to come.
“It does seem dreadful lonesome,” Miss Miranda agreed, after a long pause. “Hear Topsy howling in the kitchen; she’s missin’ the young life that’s gone, and she’ll have to git used to us all over again, jest as I said. Hannah would be considerable expense to us, and make a sight o’ work, too. Of course, you’ve thought o’ that?”
“We take about so many steps, anyway,” argued Miss Jane, “and if the child’s spry and handy, she may save us a few now and then. Tabitha ain’t so much care, nor near so confinin’, sence Topsy came to keep her comp’ny—even two cats is better’n one.”
“There goes Emma Jane Perkins,” exclaimed Miss Miranda, from her post of observation. “She looks different somehow. I’ve always said I should think her face would ache, it’s so hombly, but I guess she’s passed her hombliest, and is going to improve. Mebbe Mis’ Perkins has been givin’ her spring medicine.”
“I guess the ‘spring medicine’ has been two weeks’ good time with that trainin’ and careerin’ houseful of girls,” rejoined Miss Jane, wisely. “Everybody in the village sits up kind o’ smart and looks as if they’d taken a tonic133. Maybe I’d better write to Aurelia on Sunday, Mirandy.”
“Mebbe you had, Jane, and if she can’t spare Hannah, say we’ll take Rebecca, though I always thought she was a self-willed child, too full of her own fancies to be easy managed.”
This is not the time for Rebecca’s story; but, as a matter of fact, Mrs. Aurelia Randall could not spare Hannah, who was docile, industrious134, and of much assistance with the house-work, and as a matter of fact it was the somewhat dreaded135 Rebecca who did come from the far-away farm to live in the dull old house with Miss Jane and Miss Miranda. And all that befell this new family circle, formed almost by accident, and all that Rebecca did, or became, as well as everything that happened during the gradual beautifying of Emma Jane Perkins, was, as you see, the indirect result of Bell Winship’s madcap experiment in housekeeping.
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