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"We tried our best to get a man for you," said Mrs. Rindge to Honora. "Didn't we, Abby? But in the little time we had, it was impossible. The only man we saw was Ned Carrington, and Hugh said he didn't think you'd want him." "Hugh showed a rare perception," said Honora. Be it recorded that she smiled.
At the time of writing my last letter, I was without bread. Well, just at supper-time came Mrs. B with a large covered dish, which proved to contain a quantity of specially good flapjacks, piping hot, prepared, I suppose, by the fair hands of Miss Martha or Miss Abby, for Mrs. P was not at home.
Harriet wanted an organ like Mary Abby Gammons, mother longed for a real "in-grain" carpet and we all clamored for a spring wagon. We got the wagon first. That bleak little house is clearly defined in my mind at this moment.
He sat brooding in the corner, as was his wont, but with a light in his eyes and a color in his cheek that Abby had never seen before. "Jacques De Arthenay, you are fairly possessed!" she said, in rather an awestruck voice, as he rose abruptly to bid her good-day. "I don't believe you can think of anything except that child." "So more I can!" said the man, looking at her with bright, hard eyes.
But with those thick cotton pads on his eyes and then covered with that big, thick, folded silk handkerchief it's really a muffle-there's no chance for his faking." "And if he could see if his eyes were wide open how would he know where to go?" demanded Aunt Abby. "That blindfolding is only so he can't see Mr. Mortimer's face, if he turns round, and judge from its expression.
Granville pressed stealthily close to Ellen as she marched away and whispered, his face blazing, his voice full of confidence and congratulation, "Say, if she'd been a boy, I'd licked her for you, and you wouldn't hev had to tech her yourself;" and Maria walked up and eyes her prostrate but defiantly glaring sister "I ain't sorry one mite, Abby Atkins," she declared "so there."
"Even after the preacher sharp gives his p'role, Abby acts plenty doobious. She ain't shore it's wise to throw him loose. It's Doc Peets who reasshores her. "'My dear young lady, says Peets, at the same time bowin' to the ground, 'you may trust this maverick with me. I'll pledge my word to prodooce him at the moment when he's called for to make these nuptials win.
"And as for you, sir, not a stick or shingle shall you have" "If you'll only take the girl, you're welcome to the house, sir," says Mr. James. "Oh, I am, am I? Then, by gad, sir, I'll take both houses, and Sam Dowse's daughter'll live in one, and your mother and I in the other!" "Sam Dowse's daughter?" "Yes, sir, Miss Abby Dowse. Have you any objections?"
And here comes along a young woman with money ... I'd like mighty well to know just how much she's got an' where it come from. I asked the Judge, and he says, blamed if he knows.... But this 'ere young female spells op-per-tunity, Abby.
"Why, do you know anything I haven't been told, Miss Ames? I thought we had pretty well sized up the situation." "Yes, but I can tell you something that nobody else will listen to, and I think you will." Eunice started up again. "Aunt Abby," she said, "if you begin that pack of fool nonsense about a vision, I'll leave the room I vow I will!"
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