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As she spoke, she handed Frank a haversack, such as he had often seen used by the soldiers of the rebel army, filled with corn-bread and cold ham. Frank slung it over his shoulder, and, after pulling his rifle out from under the bed, said: "Aunty, I thank you for your kindness to" "Lor' A'mighty, chile!" interrupted the woman, "don't say one word 'bout dat, I tol' you.
"Well, I don't mind," said Billy Morrison amiably. "May's well get you jaunting done 'fore harvest comes on. And here, Jord; take this quarter and get some oranges for Aunty Nan. Needn't mention it to headquarters." Billy Morrison's face was solemn, but Jordan winked as he pocketed the money.
The cherries on her black straw bonnet were shaking on their stems in a way which fascinated Ruth. "I'll take my things out of the south room, Aunty," she hastened to say. "You won't, neither," was the unexpected answer; "that's the spare room, and, while you stay, you'll stay there." Ruth was wondering what to say to her new uncle and sat in awkward silence as Aunt Jane ascended the stairs.
William whisked out of the kitchen, pretending not to see the tears that were falling over Aunty Nan's withered pink cheeks. Aunty Nan was really getting very childish, Mrs. William reflected, as she marched down to the shore field. Why, she cried now about every little thing! And such a notion to want to go to the Old Timers' concert at Kensington and be so set on it!
What was she to believe from this night's events? One thought leaped vividly above the others that rioted in her mind: Trevison had again sinned against the law, and this time his crime was murder! She shrank away from the door and joined Agatha at the foot of the stairs. "Aunty," she sobbed; "I want to go away. I want to go back East, away from this lawlessness and confusion!"
Rayburn began to sing. At the first note Ethelwyn slipped down, and stood with her hand in her mother's. Then Elizabeth eluded Aunty Stevens's vigilant eye, slipped out of the seat and walked up and stood on the other side, her head raised looking into her mother's face, and to their great delight the three verses were sung.
No girl is to be more envied you have had a wonderful ten years of being a 'Gorgeous Girl, as your dear papa calls it, and at twenty-six you are to become the bride of a wonderful man neither too early nor too late an age. I cannot really grieve when I realize how happy you are going to be, and yet " "Don't work so hard, aunty," Bea said, easily.
So do I. She could not even make the man perceive that he was acting to use her poor dear old-fashioned word reprehensibly in frightening the prince to further your interests. From what I gathered he went off in a song about them. She said he talked so well! And aunty Dorothy, too! I should nearly as soon have expected grandada to come in for his turn of the delusion. How I wish he was here!
It was Randerson's voice, and it made Ruth's heart feel heavy and cold within her, for in it was contempt, intolerance, rage suppressed she felt that the words had come through clenched teeth. "I reckon I'll be seein' Pickett, aunty." And then he patted Aunt Martha's shoulders and started for the back door. Ruth heard him open it; he must have been standing on the threshold when he spoke again.
I asked him if he needed any help, but he said no, and he was so terrible big and strong that he lifted the trunks as if they were boxes. After he had gone, Aunty Edith said she must unpack, and Aunty May said, "Do, Edith; Billy and I will do the dishes." So Aunty May tied a big clean towel around my waist, and she washed and I dried.
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