the O.K. Café and the hotel, that is, unless they had brought their suppers too.
Calpurnia marched us home: “—skin every one of you alive, the very idea, you children listenin’ to all that!
Mister Jem, don’t you know better’n to take your little sister to that trial?
Miss Alexandra’ll absolutely have a stroke of paralysis when she finds out! Ain’t fitt인 for children to hear…”
The streetlights were on, and we glimpsed Calpurnia’s indignant profile as we passed beneath them.
“Mister Jem, I thought you was gettin’ some kinda head on your shoulders—the very idea, she’s your little sister!
The very idea, sir! You oughta be perfectly ashamed of yourself—ain’t you got any sense at all?”
I was exhilarated. So many things had happened so fast I felt it would take years to sort them out,
and now here was Calpurnia giving her precious Jem down the country—what new marvels would the evening bring?
Jem was chuckling. “Don’t you want to hear about it, Cal?”
Hush your mouth, sir! When you oughta be hangin’ your head in shame you go along laughin’—
Calpurnia revived a series of rusty threats that moved Jem to little remorse,
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