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"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 two three extra places." "Moderate Macandrew!"
"You've made one break, an' you're gettin' out of it because my boss ain't dead stuck on attendin' funerals. I reckon you know I ain't got no such nice scruples, an' a funeral more or less won't set so awful heavy on my conscience. There's goin' to be more mourners requisitioned in this country damned sudden if women ain't goin' to be allowed range rights.
So she sets there awaitin' and attendin' to customers for well she knowed him, as he wasn't the chap to let a bit of a jail stand in the way of his station in life. Well, it was three weeks to a day after the wedding, there comes a dusty chap to the 'Peal of Bells' door. That was the sign over the public, you understand." We said we did, and breathlessly added, "Go on!"
She wants, as you might say, a trained mother for'm, while his own untrained one is out gallivantin' the streets, shoppin', an' playin' bridge, an' attendin' the horse-show.
"Indeed we can't say; she's very poorly her appetite is gone she has a cough, an' she doesn't get her rest at night." "Why don't you get medical advice?" "So we did, sir. Dr. Sexton's attendin' her; but I don't think somehow that he has a good opinion of her."
I was over to Lem Hudlow's to ask if he had any hogs stole last night Lem lives nigh the poorhouse, you know. He said he hadn't missed any an' ast me if any hogs had been found. I tole him no, not that I knowed of, but I jest thought I'd ask; I thought mebby he'd had some stole. You never c'n tell, you know, an' it pays to be attendin' to business all the time.
The Perfessor may pull us through, but it's no cert. Much the contrairy. Likely as not you'll be attendin' our funerals within' the week. Dan and Jimmie tuk a notion that they'd like to forgive ye, an' I come along too because I reckon misery loves company. But I made this stippilation no huggin' before me, if you please." "Is he d-d-drunk?" faltered Edna. "I'm nearly drunk," said Pete.
There was a stoup of "Benrinnes" on the mantelpiece and a free-drawing pipe in Geordie's mouth. His subject was the one on which he can be most eloquent an incident of the salmon-fishing season, on which the worthy man delivered himself as follows: "Twa or three seasons back I was attendin' Leddy Carline whan she was fushin' that gran' pool at the brig o' Fochabers.
Before I go out shoutin' about progress I had better be sure that my own bizness is on a good footin'. I generally find that sich people spend too much time gaddin' about instid of attendin' to their own home affairs." And thus Farrington talked for over an hour. He wandered off into all kinds of subjects, made jokes at which the boys laughed, and told funny stories.
Mercy me, you mustn't expect as busy a man as the head of Cabot, Bancroft and Cabot to drop everything else and run around in circles attendin' to my little two-for-a-cent business!" The relative of the great man admitted that there was reason in this line of argument, but he was impatient, nevertheless. His daily walks now included trips to the post office.
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