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And he got a feller who wuz a boardin' to his boardin' place to interduce him to Ardelia's relative, Mr. Pixley, and Mr. Pixley interduced him to Ardelia. He told Ardelia's relatives the same story That his father wuz a banker, that he owned a bank and wuz doin' a heavy business.
And she is a good little creeter, and will make him a happy wife; I don't make no doubt. As I said, the old lady is goin' to live with Susan. They went right on in the train, for Ardelia's home lays beyond Jonesville, and Abram wuz goin' home with her by Deacon Tutt's request. They are willin'. Wall, we disembarked from the cars, and we found the old mair and the "Democrat" a waitin' for us.
"He come here after you, all dressed up, an' I told him you was gone down to Ellen's to carry the cake. So he said he'd go along down an' fetch you up, an' I told him he better stop to Ardelia's an' see if you wasn't there. An' then he come back, ridin' like the wind, an' he said I could tell you Mis' Drake said you's goin' to the picnic with Oliver.
Mainly Ardelia's talk was a praise service with her husband for the subject of worship; she was so happy with him and idolized him so that she couldn't spare time for much else. But she did speak a little about herself and, before she went away, she whispered somethin' in my ear which was a dead secret. Even Father didn't know it yet, she said.
And finely, after givin' 'em up as lost, the idee come to us that they might possibly have ketched on the fringe of Ardelia's shawl, and so rode home with her on it. So we sent one of the office-boys home with her mit and asked her if she had seen Josiah's glasses.
I ask nothin' hard of you, I only ask that you demand, demand is the right word, not ask; that would be grovelin' trucklin' folly, but demand that the public that has long ignored my daugther Ardelia's claim to a seat amongst the immortal poets, demand them, compel them to pause, to listen, and then seat her there, up, up on the highest, most perpendiciler pinnacle of fame's pillow.
Ah, if some of us boys grown older might have our mothers back again, would we be as impatient and selfish now? Would we neglect the opportunities? I think not; I hope not. Hephzibah, after she got over the shock of the surprise and the pain of sharing her beloved sister with another, welcomed that other for Ardelia's sake. She determined to like him very much indeed.
"She's Strickland Morley's daughter. There is no doubt of that. Hereditary influence is plain enough in her case." "I know, but she is Ardelia's daughter, too. I don't see how we can tell her, Hosy; not until she's well and strong again." I was never more thoroughly angry in my life. My patience was exhausted. "Look here, Hephzy," I cried: "what is it you are leading up to?
"Apples, at such a time as this;" sez Miss Tutt "When the slumberin' world trembles before the advancin' tread of a new poet When the heavens are listenin' intently to ketch the whispers of an Ardelia's fate Sweet apples! in such a time as this!" sez she. But she took two. "I demand the truth," sez she. "And you are a base, trucklin' coward, if you give it not."
But I see him only a day or two after that, and I didn't like his looks a mite. But he said, and stuck to it, that his father owned a large bank, that he wuz a banker, and a doin' a heavy business. Wall, that raised him dretfully in Ardelia's eyes; she owned up to me that it did. She owned to me that she lead always thought she would love to be a Banker's Bride. She thought it sounded rich.
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