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Tom grasped his hand, and continued, "Ye mustn't, now, tell Chloe, poor soul! how ye found me; 't would be so drefful to her. Only tell her ye found me going into glory; and that I couldn't stay for no one. And tell her the Lord's stood by me everywhere and al'ays, and made everything light and easy. And oh, the poor chil'en, and the baby; my old heart's been most broke for 'em, time and agin!
It al'ays seems to me as if 't was darker when she rises late towards mornin' than when she's gone altogether. I do' know why't is." "I rec'lect once," Mrs.
'If you please, your worship, Master Barrell the coachman let me in at the church wicket, 'cause I do be working mostly al'ays for the family. 'Then Master Barrell the coachman may let you out again, said Mr Plomacy, not even conciliated by the magisterial dignity which had been conceded to him. 'What's your name? And what trade are you, and who do you work for?
I al'ays forgit that. I feel as if the things could git out an' walk. Here! you let it alone, an' byme-by we'll open it. Se' down here on the lounge. There, now! I guess I can tell ye. It was sister 'Liza's chist, an' she kep' it up attic. She begun it when we wa'n't more 'n girls goin' to Number Six, an' she's been fillin' on't ever sence." "Begun it! You talk as if 't was a quilt!"
He relaxed his exertions sufficiently to take this new burden on his brain, and immediately cast it off. "Ah never thinks when I feeds Ah was al'ays a bad hand at 'counts. Gi'es it up." "Why, you're like a horse that never was rode! Try again, old man," said the farmer. "If I drags a cart," Master Gammon replied, "that ain't no reason why I should leap a gate."
Andy backed out of the door, an' then Toot ordered Uncle Mack to play, an' tried to get the girls to dance with 'im, but nobody would, so he danced by 'isse'f, while Doc White an' Mis' Lumpkin worked on the wounded men in the next room. Since then Toot has al'ays wore his hat at dances. He swore he never would go to one unless he did." Westerfelt laughed. "Who's the young lady?" he asked.
"Oh, she was a widow then?" interrupted Mrs. Cross. "There now, what notions folks do get in their heads. I al'ays made sure and certain as your sister-in-law was a single woman afore she was your sister-in-law." "No, my dear," said Mrs. Domeny impressively. "She was a widow, Mrs. Cross, that's what she was.
Wife, she's said to me a hundred times, 'Why don't you overhaul them old things and burn 'em? She's al'ays at me about letting the property, as if it were a corner-lot in Broadway. That's all women-folks know about business!" And here the captain caught himself tripping, and looked uneasy for a minute.
"Oh, Jim's wife's a pretty tough-hided creatur', an' as for him, I al'ays thought the way Nancy behaved took him kind o' by surprise, an' he had to give her her head, an' let her act her pleasure. But it made a sight o' town talk. Some say Nancy ain't quite bright to carry on so, an' the women-folks seem to think she's a good deal to blame, one way or another. Anyhow, she's had a hard row to hoe.
"Ah, you were al'ays a soft natured man, Reuben, too soft natured for yo' own good, I used to think." "'Twas that that stood against me with you, Sarah, when we were young. Do you remember the time you refused to drive back with me from that picnic at Falling Creek because I wouldn't give Jacob Bumpass a hiding about something? That was a bitter pill to me, an' I've never forgot it."
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