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"I have always brought up my children to make other folks happy, all they can, and in rehearsin' this lovely and remarkable poem, Ardelia will be not only makin' you perfectly happy, givin' you a rich intellectual feast, that you can't often have, way out here in the country, fur from Tuttville; but she will also be attendin' to the business that brought us here.
"Shall you be attendin'? Really, now!" With an accent of reproach he asked how she could imagine that a business so nearly concerning her could find him other than watchful. On leaving he repeated his good wishes for the twelvemonth to come, and with a warmth of intention which she perversely chose to ignore. To be sure he meant to attend the sale.
"'May you live long and happy years together, says the preacher, and he had a different look on his face more's if it was a pleasure instead of business he was attendin' to. "Whilest we stood there, kinder awk'ard, Charley made a high play. He gathered all his winnings in a heap. 'For laly, says he, makin' her a bow. "Maggy, she cried.
Havin' such feelin's for Christopher Columbus, as I had, and havin' such feelin's for New Discoverers, do you spoze I wuz a-goin' to have a celebration gin for him, and also for us as bein' discovered by him, without attendin' to it? No, indeed! I made calculations ahead from the very first minute it wuz spoke on, to attend to it.
"Have you seen or heard anything of Aileen since I left?" "Nothing, except that she's been somewhat out of sorts, and her father has sent her up to London for a change." "Has he gone to London with her?" "No, I believe not; he's taken up a good deal wi' the cargo o' this ship, and comes down to see us now and then, but for the most part he remains at home attendin' to business."
"Do I understand you'll do that, and guarantee regular notices, if we leave the advertisement with you?" Mr. Macandrew looked at her expressively and tore, with a gesture of moderated recklessness, the notice of withdrawal in two. "Rest easy," he said, "I'll see about it. I'd go the len'th of attendin' myself to-night, if ye could spare three extra places." "Moderate Macandrew!" "Moderate enough.
We've been singing hymns, and recitin' lovely poems, and listenin' to reports as to how money spent for liquor would pay off the national debt; and we've been sayin' prayers, and pledgin' ourselves not to do things none of us ever was tempted to do, or thought of doin', and wearin' ribbons, and attendin' conventions, and talkin' about influencin' legislation at Washington, and eatin' sandwiches, and drinkin' weak tea, and doin' goodness knows what; but we've not done a blessed thing to stop men drinkin' right here in Durford and breakin' the town law; you know that well enough."
I don't approve of pickle, or cocoanut, either, as for that" he tapped a jar filled with water, in which soaked broken pieces of the fruit of the tree forbidden by most Yorkburg mothers "but business is business, which I ain't attendin' to or I'd be takin' your order 'stead of wastin' your time." And again the black little eyes gleamed like polished chinquapins sunk in a round red peach. "Oh no!
"Why," sez Dick, "you ain't makin' two percent profit, an' I was just wonderin' what you stayed here for if it wasn't for somethin' else beside the filthy looger." Jabez, he jumps to his feet an' goes all through it again, tellin' all he has took in an' all he has paid out; while Dick kept attendin' to his pots an' pans the same as if he was stone deaf.
Women that has all their finery on can't walk, and some things is ondecent. It's as ondecent for a woman to be seen walkin' to meetin', as it is to be caught at what shall I say? why caught at attendin' to her business to home. "The women are the fust and the last to meetin'; fine clothes cost sunthin', and if they ain't showed, what's the use of them?
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