Ever since then I 've noticed her acting tired and lonesome like . She do n't seem to take an interest in anything , ma'am . She never pretends company 's coming , nor fixes up for it , nor nothing , ma'am . It 's only when you come she seems to chirk up a bit . And the worst sign of all , Miss Shirley , ma'am ... '' Charlotta the Fourth lowered her voice as if she were about to tell some exceedingly weird and awful symptom indeed ... `` is that she never gets cross now when I breaks things . Why , Miss Shirley , ma'am , yesterday I bruk her green and yaller bowl that 's always stood on the bookcase . Her grandmother brought it out from England and Miss Lavendar was awful choice of it . I was dusting it just as careful , Miss Shirley , ma'am , and it slipped out , so fashion , afore I could grab holt of it , and bruk into about forty millyun pieces . I tell you I was sorry and scared . I thought Miss Lavendar would scold me awful , ma'am ; and I 'd ruther she had than take it the way she did . She just come in and hardly looked at it and said , ` It 's no matter , Charlotta . Take up the pieces and throw them away . ' Just like that , Miss Shirley , ma'am ... ` take up the pieces and throw them away , ' as if it was n't her grandmother 's bowl from England . Oh , she is n't well and I feel awful bad about it . She 's got nobody to look after her but me . '' Charlotta the Fourth 's eyes brimmed up with tears . Anne patted the little brown paw holding the cracked pink cup sympathetically . `` I think Miss Lavendar needs a change , Charlotta . She stays here alone too much . Ca n't we induce her to go away for a little trip ? ''
XXXXX shook her head , with its rampant bows , disconsolately .
Anne Ca Charlotta England Fourth Lavendar bruk fixes holt yaller