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“Oh, Mrs. Carew, I’ve just been thinking how glad I am we don’t have to live but just one day at a time!”

I reckon the time to take frosting and good times is while they are going; so I want to see all I can now while I’m here.”

You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want.

I used to think THEY were rich, but I know now that being really rich means you’ve got diamond rings and hired girls and sealskin coats, and dresses made of silk and velvet for every day, and an automobile.

“Well, anyhow, you can be glad of that,” she retorted; “for when I’m talking, YOU don’t have to!”

“I have to be,” retorted Pollyanna calmly, “else I couldn’t find out a thing about you. If you’d talk more I wouldn’t talk so much.”

“Oh, yes, I was,” nodded Pollyanna, triumphantly; “and I found it, too. But ’tWAS hard. It’s all the more fun, though, always, when ’tis hard. And I will own up, honest to true[74], that I couldn’t think of anything for a while. Then I got it.”

“Well, you can be glad of that, then, anyhow, can’t you?” nodded Pollyanna. “Mrs. White couldn’t. You can’t thrash when you have rheumatic fever – though you want to something awful, Mrs. White says. She told me afterwards she reckoned she’d have gone raving crazy if it hadn’t been for Mr. White’s sister’s ears – being deaf, so.”

“Why, what a funny woman,” laughed Pollyanna. “I think I shall like to go to see her. She must be so surprising and – and different. I love DIFFERENT folks.”

“Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven’t left me any time at all just to – to live.”