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He didn't answer for a minute, but he looked over her head and then away acrost the room, as if he was watching something that moved. "Your husband was a short, kind of fleshy man, as I remember, wa'n't he?" says he, absent-minded like. "Course he was. But what in the world " "'Twa'n't him, then. I thought not." "HIM? My husband? What DO you mean?" And then Asaph begun to put on the fine touches.
You know her and me and sometimes that Englishman travels along in the amberlanch. She's allowed to me quiet that when the time come for her to go acrost, she'd ruther you and me went along. She's all ready now, if you air." "Very good," said I, "we'll go now they've got a fire there, and are cooking, I suppose." Mandy left me, and I went for my own horse.
There was too many buryin's thin to ask questions, an' the docthor he ran away wid Major Major Van Dyce's lady that year he saw to ut all. Fwhat the right an' the wrong av Love-o'-Women an' Di'monds-an'- Pearls was I niver knew, an' I will niver know; but I've tould ut as I came acrost ut here an' there in little pieces.
I bought me this yere book down in th' settlement, an' thought I'd learn things outen it. But how'm I goin' to learn? I can't make nothin' out of it to get a start with." Instantly the pathos of this situation, not its humor, made appeal to him. "Isn't there a school here?" he inquired. "Nearest school is twenty mile acrost, over on Turkey Creek," she said briefly.
With that she marches out'n our house. Then all the women sings out: "Send fur Brother Cartwright! Send fur Brother Cartwright!" And they sent me scooting acrost town to get him quick. Which he was the preacher of the Baptist church and lived next to it. And I hadn't got no lamming yet!
I did the same thing myself once with a couple o' quid I ran acrost unexpected, on'y, unfortunately for me, I hid it the day afore my missus started 'er spring-cleaning. One o' the worst men I ever knew for getting into trouble when he came ashore was old Sam Small. If he couldn't find it by 'imself, Ginger Dick and Peter Russet would help 'im look for it.
"No, I'd already gone acrost. Keaton here saw it." Keaton took up the tale. "I was there when the old gentleman drove down singing, 'Lo, the Gentile chain is broken. He was awful chipper. Then one of 'em called him old Father Time, and he answered back.
Come along quiet, and you'll see me waiting at the gate for you. "He gave way arter a time, and, fust going 'ome for a cup o' tea, I went on to the wharf to tell the skipper 'ow things stood. "'It couldn't 'ave 'appened better, he ses. 'Uncle Dick is sure to be aboard at that time, 'cos 'e's going acrost the water at eight o'clock to pay 'er a visit. And all the hands'll be away.
Wall, I wrung my hands out of the dish-water they was in at the time, and took the coat and looked at it, and the minute I set my eyes on it I see what ailed it I see she had got the sleeves sot in so the elbows come right in front of his arms, and if he had wore it in that condition to the funeral or anywhere else he would have had to fold up his arms right acrost his back; there wuzn't no other possible way.
There wasn't one of 'em 'ad the slightest suspicion not one." "And wot about my character?" I ses, folding my arms acrost my chest and looking at him. "Character?" he ses, staring. "Why, there's no 'arm in dancing; it's a innercent enjoyment." "It ain't one o' my innercent enjoyments," I ses, "and I don't want to get the credit of it.
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