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Gildenfenny, when she had read a little further; "Lord a-mercy! if I'm not decent, why does he ask me? Why don't he say, at once, 'Please wash yourself before you come; and if you can't afford soap and water, here's a ticket'? Susan, get me up! Dress me right away! I must have this explained." "But your breakfast, ma'am," says Susan. "Eat? eat? with such a thing on my mind? No!
Weatherby," explained Sol Peterkin, carefully closing the shutter after his entrance. "My wife's took so bad that I'm beginnin' to fear she'll turn out as po' a bargain as the last. It's my luck I always knew I was ill-fated but, Lord a-mercy, how's a man goin' to tell the state of a woman's innards from the way she looks on top?
"My aunt, Lois Toothacre, that lives down by Middle Bay," said Miss Ruey, "used to tell about a dreadful blow they had once in time of the equinoctial storm; and what was remarkable, she insisted that she heard a baby cryin' out in the storm, she heard it just as plain as could be." "Laws a-mercy," said Mrs.
When I took it off the fire and put it in a plate on the table, I had to put another plate and a a plane or somethin' heavy on top of it or they'd have had it sartin sure. Then when I sat down to eat it they formed a circle again like a reg'lar band and tuned up and hollered. Lord a-mercy, HOW they did holler!
On a chair at the table Virgie set her doll, then laughed at the hopelessness of its breakfasting with any degree of comfort, or of ease. "Why, Lord a-mercy, child, your chin don't come up to the table." On the chair she placed a wooden box, perching the doll on top and taking a seat herself just opposite.
If such acts set all America in a flame, they certainly drove all wellwisbers of our country into a fury. He would whirl my paternal cane out of my hand, box my hair-powder out of my ears. Lord a-mercy! I tremble at the very idea of the controversy?
Talbot ventured to look in at it, keeping very close to his wife. It was so the old man had stood open-mouthed before the first steam-engine, and here again was the Devil plainly at work. "Lord a-mercy, Jane," he said to his wife, "what is the world coming to?"
Gildenfenny's note aloud en duet, with now and then a pleased comment. Mrs. Gildenfenny said she would wear her green silk, and gave directions, as she read on, about her shoes, her hair, her linen and twenty articles of her toilet that came into her mind at mention of dining out. "Lord a-mercy!" says Mrs.
"Lord a-mercy, Aunt Verbeny, she ain't a-comin' back dis way?" asked Betsey, probing the apples with a small pine stick and giving the softest to Eugenia. Aunt Verbeny shook her head. "She ain' never had no luck on er 'count er bein' er twin," she said. Viney tuck 'n put 'em safe 'way down in de bottom uv 'er trunk en went 'long ter de Yankees.
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