human
I wish to remark that, having said a good many disagreeable things about Cousin Ann, and regretting them very much, I have placed the four black and white marble ornaments on my bedroom mantelpiece, there to be a perpetual reminder of my sins. You Dirty Boy is in a hundred pieces in the barn chamber, but if Cousin Ann ever comes to visit us again, I'll be the one to confess that Gilly and I were the cause of the accident.
gpt
Now take your pencil, Nancy, and see where we are in point of income, at the present moment, her mother suggested, with an approving smile.
human
Put down the pension of thirty dollars a month.
gpt
Down.--Three hundred and sixty dollars.
human
Now the hundred dollars over and above the rent of the Charlestown house.
gpt
Down; but it lasts only four years.
human
We may all be dead by that time.
gpt
Then the interest on our insurance money. Four per cent on five thousand dollars is two hundred; I have multiplied it twenty times.
human
Down.--Two hundred.
gpt
Of course if anything serious happens, or any great need comes, we have the five thousand to draw upon,
human
I will draw upon that to save one of us in illness or to bury one of us, said Mrs. Carey with determination,
gpt
she added hastily,--
human
Don't, mother! they cried in chorus, so passionately that Mrs. Carey changed the subject quickly.
gpt
How much a year does it make, Nancy?
human
Three hundred and sixty plus one hundred plus two hundred equals six hundred and sixty, read Nancy.
gpt
And I call it a splendid big lump of money!
human
Oh, my dear, sighed her mother with a shake of the head,
gpt
We saved enough out of exchanging the grand piano to pay all the expenses down here, and all our railway fares, and everything so far, in the way of boards and nails and Osh Popham's labor,
human
Yes, and we are still eating the grand piano at the end of two months, but it's about gone, isn't it, Muddy?
gpt
About gone, but it has been a great help, and our dear little old-fashioned square is just as much of a comfort.--Of course there's the tapestry and the Van Twiller landscape Uncle gave me; they may yet be sold.
human
Somebody'll buy the tapestry, but the Van Twiller'll go hard,
gpt
A picture that looks just the same upside down as the right way about won't find many buyers,
human
Still it is a Van Twiller, and has a certain authentic value for all time!
gpt
The landscapes Van Twiller painted in the dark, or when he had his blinders on, can't be worth very much, insisted Gilbert.
human
You remember the Admiral thought it was partridges nesting in the underbrush at twilight, and then we found Joanna had cleaned the dining room and hung the thing upside down. When it was hung the other end up neither father nor the Admiral could tell what it was; they'd lost the partridges and couldn't find anything else!
gpt
We shall get something for it because it is a Van Twiller, said Mrs. Carey hopefully;