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Turnbull; it ain't right." The man dropped his chin doggedly, and fed himself without lifting his elbows from the table. "I can't always manage to be at home when folks come a-visiting," he said in his gruff, tangled voice. "You was at church on Sabbath when Mr. Turnbull gave out the pastoral visitations: he knew that as well as I did. I couldn't say a word to-day.

"Folks that go a-visiting hadn't ought to be difficult with their victuals." "Can you imagine anything more dreadful than to live in such a place?" exclaimed Polly, as they drove away, after being conducted over the establishment. "I'd work and scrimp, year after year, rather than, just sit down and be supported by the town."

Suddenly she turned and whispered, "Who is he?" "He's Cap'n Sawyer, m'm," they told her sorrowfully. "He's our own cap'n. He's been in command of us yere since a long time. He's got folks about yere. Raikon they cotch him while he was a-visiting." She was still for a time, and then, awed, she said: "Will they will they hang him?" "No, m'm. Oh no, m'm. Don't raikon no such thing. No, m'm."

Or sometimes of an evening, the lamp lighted, the remnants of the meat tea cleared away, the flickering firelight cosifying the dingy rooms, I go a-visiting. There is no need for me to ring the bell, to mount the stairs. Through the thin transparent walls I can see you plainly, old friends of mine, fashions a little changed, that is all.

I could see that if I wanted to go a-visiting any distance from home, and the wind was ahead, I might have to wait days, maybe, for a change; and I could see, too, that these things could not be any use at all in a gale; if you tried to run before the wind, you would make a mess of it, for there isn't anyway to shorten sail like reefing, you know you have to take it ALL in shut your feathers down flat to your sides.

"Still," she temporized, "we can't get along without watches, Abbott." "No, nor schools, nor churches. But they must have good works. Is Fran down at the fair, do you think?" The other bent toward him stealthily. "Ask where Mrs. Gregory is," she said, wonderfully significant. "Well?" "Abbott, listen: she's gone a-visiting!" "Visiting!" Abbott was surprised.

Upon serious consideration, for indeed now I began to consider things very seriously, and never till now; I say, upon serious consideration, I resolved to tell him of it first; and it was not long before I had an opportunity, for the very next day his brother went to London upon some business, and the family being out a-visiting, just as it had happened before, and as indeed was often the case, he came according to his custom, to spend an hour or two with Mrs.

You have heard your mothers and fathers speak of Aunt Patty, my dears, and they will tell you how she spoiled them when they went a-visiting to Gordon's Pride. Ere I had regained my health, the war for Independence was won. I pray God that time may soften the bitterness it caused, and heal the breach in that noble race whose motto is Freedom.

She and her brothers and Jack Brinsmade used to banter him when he came a-visiting in Bellefontaine Road. The time was not yet come when neighbor stared coldly upon neighbor, when friends of long standing passed each other with averted looks. It was not even a wild dream that white-trash Lincoln would be elected. And so Mr. Jack, who made speeches for Breckenridge in the face of Mr.

He dispensed as usual with the customary forms of address. "I have had a letter about Ovid, from a friend of mine in Canada. There is an allusion to him of the complimentary sort, which I don't altogether understand. I want to ask you about it but I can't spare the time to go a-visiting. So much the better for me I hate conversation, and I like work.