She sez: "You know she _lacks_." That wuz Aunt Tryphena's greatest condemnation to say folks lacked.

She never told what they lacked, but left it to the imagination of the hearer; from her expression you would imagine they lacked all the cardinal virtues and them that wuzn't cardinal.

She said his ma wuz sick and kep' the Prince right under her feet, and he'd gone back now to be with her leaving St.Louis only a week or so before we come.
Bein' asked why she left Miss Louise she wuz more reticent, only remarking that after Prince Arthur went to college she wanted a change, so she had strolled over to South America, and from there to Asia and so on to Chicago where she wuz hired as nurse to Miss Dotie, and when her ma died and the child wuz taken by its great-aunt, Miss Huff, she had been willing to help the latter through the Exposition, for she wuz a nice woman and didn't lack.
But we could see that her real reason wuz to be with the child--faithful creeter she wuz, though queer, queer as they make.

And to see the little creature's white snow and rose face resting lovingly and confidingly aginst the black cheeks, you knew that Aunt Tryphena had good in her.
Little children are good detectives, like the sun that photographs hidden virtues and failings in the human face, so a child's intuition brought from the heaven they have so lately left, takes the best impressions of a person's real character.

Children and animals live so near Nature's heart they can detect real diamonds from the false, no paste glitter can deceive 'em.