with you, Gabriella?"

"I can't bear to think of it, Cousin Jimmy," remarked Mrs. Carr, while
she adjusted her crape veil over the back of her chair. "I don't see how
I can stand living in the North."

"Well, what about our friend Charley? Do you think you could get on any
better with Charley for a son-in-law?"

"You oughtn't to joke about it, Cousin Jimmy. It is too serious for
joking."

"I beg your pardon, Cousin Fanny--but where is George, Gabriella? I
thought he was to meet you here."

"He had to go just before you came. Don't you think mother is looking
well?"

"As well as I ever saw her. I was telling her so as we drove back from
Hollywood. All she needs is to leave off moping for a while and she'd
lose ten years of her age. Why, I tell you if it were I, I'd jump at the
chance to go to New York for a few years. If there wasn't a single thing
there except the theatres, I'd jump at it. You can go to a different
show every night of your life, Cousin Fanny."

"I have never been inside of a theatre in my life. You ought to know me
better than to think it," replied Mrs. Carr, while the corners of her
mouth drooped. She had laid her bag of grosgrain silk on the table at
her elbow, and untying the strings of her bonnet, she neatly rolled them
into two tight little wads which she fastened with jet-headed pins.

"You make her go, honey, when you get hold of her," said Jimmy to
Gabriella in a sympathetic aside "What she needs is bracing up--I was
saying so to Pussy only this morning. 'If you could just brace up Cousin
Fanny, she'd be as well as you or I,' was what I said to her Now I don't
believe there's a better place on earth to brace a body up than old New
York. I remember I took my poor old father there just a month or two
before his last illness, when he was getting over a spell of lumbago,
and it worked on him like magic. We stayed at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel--you must be sure to get a dinner at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
Cousin Fanny--and went to a show every blessed night fo

Martha Finley (1828 - 1909) was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years. The daughter of Presbyterian minister Dr. James Brown Finley and his wife and cousin Maria Theresa Brown Finley, she was born on April 26th, 1828 in Chillicothe, Ohio. Finley wrote many of her books under the psodonym Martha Farquharson. She died in 1909 in Elkton, Maryland, where she moved in 1876.

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