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I wan't as old as I be now, and " "Ase, don't tell your heart secrets, even to me. I might get absent-minded and mention 'em to Matildy. And then whew!" "If you don't stop tryin' to play smarty I'll go home. What's Matildy Tripp to me, I'd like to know? And even when Mary Thayer was here I was old enough to be her dad. But I remember what a nice girl she was and how the boarders liked her.
As for Mabel, she was one of them gushy, goo-gooey kind of girls, and she was as struck with the shebang as her dad. She said the house itself was a "perfect dear." And after supper they paired off and got to talking, the colonel with Mrs. Badger, and Asaph with Mabel. Now, I can just imagine how Ase talked to that poor, unsuspecting young female.
Aw, don't be so mean, Ase! Showin' off your importance like a young one! What did Heman say about the appropriation? Is he goin' to get it?" Mr. Tidditt paused before replying. Then, bending over, he whispered in his chum's ear: "He never said one word about the appropriation, Bailey; not one word. He wanted to know if we'd got this year's taxes on the Whittaker place.
Beasley's ears had been ordinary ones she might have heard the unflattering description in the kitchen; as it was Mr. Tidditt felt no fear. "Comin' here so's you could be company for her! The idea! Good to herself, ain't she! Godfrey scissors! And Bailey was fool enough to " "There, there! Don't let it worry you, Ase. I've about decided what to say when I let her go.
He was just crooning the 'Humors of Glynn' to himself and thinking that it was a very hard case that he couldn't save anything at all, at all, to help him to the wife, when, on coming down a bank in the middle of the bog, he saw a dark-looking man leaning against a clamp of turf, and a black dog, with a pipe of tobacky in his mouth, sitting at his ase beside him, and he smoking as sober as a judge.
You're diff'rent from Ase and Bailey and their kind not meanin' anything against them, either. But you're broad-minded and cool-headed and and Do you know, if I'd had a woman like you to advise me all these years and keep me from goin' off the course, I might have been somebody by now." "I think you're somebody as it is." "Don't talk that way.
And Mary married Henry Thomas, after she went with the Howes tribe to Concord, and he got rid of it for her in double quick time all but the Orham land." "So that was all you could find out, hey, Ase?" asked the captain. "Well, it's at least as much as I expected. You see, teacher, these story-book notions don't work out when it comes to real life." Miss Dawes was plainly disappointed.
"Are YOU going to see her, Captain Whittaker?" asked Phoebe. The captain shook his head. "Why, no, I guess not," he said. "I don't take much stock in what she'd be likely to know; besides, I'm a good deal like Ase I've had about all the Debby Beasley I want." "Mrs. Bangs," said the schoolmistress, as if it was the most casual thing in the world, "I want to borrow your husband to-morrow."
The younger generation here in Bayport regard their town clerk as something of an oracle, and this regard has made Asaph a trifle vain and positive. Bailey chuckled again. "We WAS a spunky, dare-devil lot in the old days, wan't we, Ase?" he said. "Spunk was kind of born in us, as you might say. And even now we're " The Atkins tower clock boomed once a solemn, dignified stroke. Mr.
"De Debby Beasley!" he stammered. "Debby Beasley!" "She was that deef housekeeper Bailey hired for me, teacher," explained the captain. "I've told you about her. Ho! ho! so that's the end of the mystery huntin'. We go gunnin' for Heman Atkins, and we bring down Debby! Well, Ase, goin' to see the old lady?" Mr. Tidditt's retort was emphatic. "Goin' to SEE her?" he repeated. "I guess not!
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