Crossword-Solution: ARDELIA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Finally the oldest female opened her lips, some as a steel trap would open sudden and kinder sharp, and sez she: “I am Miss Deacon Tutt, of Tuttville, and this is my second daughter Ardelia.

Cordelia is my oldest, and I have 4 younger than Ardelia.” I bowed real polite and said, “I wuz glad to make the acquaintance of the hull 7 on ’em.” I can be very genteel when I set out, almost stylish.

And so,” sez she a pointin’ to a bag she carried on her arm (a hard lookin’ bag made of crash with little bullets and knobs of embroidery on it), “and so we took this bag full of Ardelia’s poetry and come on the mornin’ train, Cephas’es letter havin’ reached us at nine o’clock last night.

She throws off things, Ardelia does, in half an hour, that it would take other poets, weeks and weeks to write.” At the printers “I persume so,” sez I, “I dare persume to say, they _never_ could write ’em.” “And now,” sez Miss Tutt, “the question is, will you put Ardelia on the back of that horse that poets ride to glory on? Will you lift her onto the back of that horse, and do it _at once?_ I require nothin’ hard of you,” sez she, a borin’ me through and through with her eyes.

Honestly speakin’, I don’t.” “Envy!” sez Miss Tutt, “glarin’, shameless envy! You don’t want Ardelia to rise! You don’t want her to mount that horse I spoke of; you don’t want to own that you see genius in her.