More Tish

On the surface the days that followed passed uneventfully. Tish sewed and knitted, and once each day stood Aggie and myself on the outskirts of her garden and pointed out things...

The limit to our patience came soon after that. One morning about the first of August the boatman from the lake came up the path with a spade over his shoulder. Tish, we perceiv...

At twilight we found a sort of recess in the valley, level and not too thickly wooded, and while Tish and I set up the stove and lighted a fire Aggie spread out the sleeping-bag...

Well, I dressed and we went out into the street. I tried to tell Tish that even if we got it we couldn’t take it home and hide it under the bed or in a bureau drawer, but she wa...

However, by going very slowly, I got the thing as far as the gate going into the road. Here there was a hill, and we began to move too rapidly.

“Age fiddlesticks!” she said, knitting violently. “The plain truth is—and you might as well acknowledge it, Lizzie—that they would take me by myself quick enough, just to get th...

Tish came into the cave then and took a spoonful of blackberry cordial. As we knew, her intrepid spirit had not quailed; but, as she said, one’s body is never as strong as one’s...

“A lot of chance he’ll have!” she said with a sniff. “What does he know about raids? And you’d think to hear you talk, Lizzie, that pulling Germans out of a trench was as easy a...

“You see,” Tish said bitterly, “that is the sort of help one gets from the Army.” She drew a deep breath and looked in the general direction of the trenches. “One thing is sure...

“It is a regrettable fact that the only scandal which marred a fine and patriotic outburst of national feeling yesterday should have involved the city organization. Is it not ti...

“At first, of course,” she said, “I thought you were white slavers. But I’ve got it now. The other game is different. Oh, I may come from a small town, but I’m not unsophisticat...

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Well, she didn’t want me any more than she wanted the measles, but the time was coming when she could thank her lucky stars I was there. However, she said nothing, but I heard h...