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First the Abby asked the children to recite the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments in unison, and when they had done this without a mistake, he said "Bravo! Now I wonder if you can each do as well alone? Let me see, I will call upon " He paused and looked about as if he were searching for the child who was most likely to do it well.
"William Lee, Nancy Lee, James Whittaker, and I forget the others," recited Jane, like an obedient parrot. "And it will be splendid to have James Whittaker, for he really came to Albion," said Mary. "Perhaps he stood on this very spot more than once," mused Abby.
I remember how sick the smell of the hay made me, and when the sweat run down into my eyes I was glad to feel 'em smart and sting well, Abby, you just wait till you hear your Nathan'l is shot through the head and you'll know how it was well, all of a sudden somebody took the fork out'n my hand an' an' said 'here, you drive an' I'll pitch and there 'twas 'twas " "Why, Grandma Pritchard! You're "
"Oh, I heard the men talking the other night after I'd gone to bed. Maybe it isn't true that he's thinking of cutting down the wages." "It can't be," said Ellen. "I say so, too," said Maria. "Well, I hope not," said Abby. "You can't tell. Some chimneys always have the wind whistling in them, and I suppose it's about so with a boot and shoe shop.
"If we needed it, we've received it," Abby ejaculated, as she pushed her darning-ball into the foot of a stocking. "Nothing has happened since I came here thirty years ago that has troubled me like the running away of Nathan and Hetty.
The Abby de Montesquiou wrote to the Prince a letter, which was carried to him by Viscount Sosthenes de la Rochefoucauld, one of the individuals who, in these difficult circumstances, most zealously served the cause of the Bourbons. On the afternoon of the 11th Monsieur arrived at a country-house belonging to Madame Charles de Dames, where he passed the night.
My pluck has come back, and my strength. I've learned a good deal here about casting out my own devils; now I am going home and help him to cast out his. Perhaps he won't be there; perhaps he does n't want me, though when he was his very best self he loved me dearly; but that was long, long ago!" sighed Susanna, drearily. "Oh, this thing the world's people call love!" groaned Abby.
Mis' Abby Winslow, mother of seven under fifteen, looked up from her rocking-chair Mis' Winslow always sat limp in chairs as if they were reaching out to rest her and, indeed, this occasional yielding to the force of gravity was almost her only luxury. "You ain't thinking of the children, Mis' Bates," she said, "nor you either, Jane Moran, or you couldn't talk that way.
People got tired of hearing him preach. This made me so angry I did not speak to Aunt Abby for two years, except when I was obliged to. But I see now that she was right. As I read over papa's sermons I see that they would seem very strange to common men and women. He saw much more in every little thing than people generally do.
Once in every week Abby vowed she would leave, but habit was too strong. Once in every week Miss Webster vowed she would turn the companion out, but dependence on the younger woman had grown into the fibres of her old being. Strowbridge returned the following summer. Almost immediately he called on Miss Williams.
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