Cis's

Cis's mirror, he contrived, by skewing his head around, chinning first one shoulder, then the other, to get a meager look at his back.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

There were little movements in Cis's room, and he felt sure she was not asleep.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

All the while he visioned Cis's surprise and delight over the tarts.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

He did yet another unusual thing; noiselessly, so as not to wake any one, he set his bedding roll on end just outside the door of Cis's room, then returned to the table, drew out the drawer, chose a saucer of rose-colored beads, and fell to threading them swiftly.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

That rebuke of Barber's seemed to deflect Cis's interest from the rooms to herself.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

But first he took a thorough hand-wash, this to guard against soiling a new garment; to insure against surprise while he was putting the clothes on, he scurried into Cis's room with the armful, leaving Father Pat in the morris chair, from where the latter called out advice now and again.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

One-Eye bidden a brave good-by, one of Johnnie's first jobs had been the rearranging of Cis's closet room.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

Johnnie took this moment to fish from his shirt his five books, laying them one by one on the bed-shelf at Cis's feet, from where she caught up the new ones, marveling over them.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

He was not only weak, he was sick -- too sick with bitterness and hate and shame and rage even to care to go into Cis's room to see in what condition Big Tom had left it.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

And what he could earn, added to Cis's wages at some factory, and Grandpa's pension (this a princely income which was now regularly drawn and spent by Big Tom) would take care of the three splendidly.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913