Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Laddie Post 5: Chapters 14-18 (Final)

Chapter 14

Laddie decides to take up plowing for a week in an effort to prove to the Princess that he's a working man who's worthy of courtship. Laddie has a long (and a bit of a heated) conversation With Mr. Pryor about his daughter and eventually Mr. Pryor says that it would be okay if Laddie dated the Princess.

Chapter 15

Little Sister is convinced that the connection between Laddie and the Princess didn't work out. But then Little Sister sees the Princess and she reminds her of Sally when she was in love. So, clearly, the Princess and Laddie are in love! Little Sister is correct, and she talks to the Princess. Little Sister and the Princess engage in an awkward conversation that makes the Princess angry. But they work things out.

Chapter 16

Laddie comes home and announces that the Princess said yes when he asked her to marry him! Little Sister is very excited, but explains the bitter-sweet situation. Yes, it's good that Laddie's getting married, but he's also leaving, which makes Little Sister very sad. Later, Laddie gets Leon a horse! Laddie says he's going to pay for it by selling other horses for a man, and he says that he's going to enjoy it much more than plowing.

Chapter 17

Now it's finally Shelley's turn to get married! Little Sister goes out with her father and picks up the mail and sees a letter from Robert Paget, Shelley's lover. Little Sister delivers the letter to Shelley and she finds a bunch of other letters inside. Shelley is afraid to read the attached note inside, so Laddie reads it for her. Robert explains through the note that these were a bunch of "dead letters" that never got sent to Shelley. Later, Robert comes for a visit to get to know the family better, and plan the wedding. The two couples (Laddie and The Princess, and Shelley and Robert) consider doing a double wedding. Then we find out that The Princess and Robert are brother and sister! Turns out that Pamela Pryor's (The Princess) real name was Pamela Paget! What a mussy situation!

Chapter 18

Mr. Pryor had a stroke, but they fixed him. Then Shelley and Pamela married their beaus at the double wedding and everyone lived happily after. And Laddie didn't die. What the heck?



New Words

Mussy-just another word for messy
Beau-boyfriend

No comments:

Post a Comment