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"I'll leave you a clear two hundred for yourself and the kids that's all right, isn't it? Two hundred, and you won't have my enormous appetite to cater for! You'll do very well, won't you, Mrs. Osborn?" "Thank you. We shall do quite well." "I'll arrange at the bank, and give you a chequebook." She said next: "A whole year! Baby'll forget you."
If he ever was, he don't look much like one now, for he's six-feet nothin' in his socks, an' drinks like a fish, if he don't do nothin' wuss. Good-night Capp'n. Baby'll ketch cold if I keep on jawin' here. Mind your weather eye, and port your helm when you reach the landin'. If you'll take the advice of a young salt, you'll clew up your mainsail an' dowse some of your top-hamper ah! I thought so!"
"Do you remember this, Jake?" she asked, holding up a baby's rattle. "I bought it for your little Joey, and put it away in my desk till he would be big enough to use it, and it's been there ever since. Maybe the new baby'll like it." The man's eyes grew misty as he took the little toy and gazed at it tenderly. The woman's face had lost all its sternness; her gray eyes were very kind.
"How shall I meet her, then? If it were done by chance it would be best." "I'll manage it somehow. The house is very quiet: I've sent all the children away, except the baby. The baby'll comfort her, poor dear! afterwards." And, again drying her honest eyes, Mrs. Tod ran out of the room. We could do nothing at all that morning.
"Take my advice, and go straight back and ask 'er to overlook it, this once." "Oh, no, she'd never take me back." "Yes, she will; you suits the child, and that's all they think of." "I don't know what will become of me and my baby." "No more don't I. Yer can't stop always in the work'us, and a baby'll be a 'eavy drag on you. Can't you lay 'ands on 'is father, some'ow?"
"But you see, ma'am," said Pomona, "we don't expect the baby'll ever come over here ag'in, an' when she gits older, I'll tell her all about these things, an' it'll expan' her intelleck a lot more when she feels she's seed 'em all without knowin' it.
I asked, when he had me out in the rain again. "About one thousand three hundred dollars. I can't stop to calculate it for you in pounds or francs. I'm too excited. Oh, how wet you are, poor Man! And all for me! But wasn't it splendid! And I just know that baby'll be better to-morrow. You see if she isn't." She was.
He gits all wore out actin' the way he does, an' then he's terrible scared for fear I've made way with myself, an' he's all bowed down." "Oh!" said Raven. "And you've got him where you want him. And you settle down and wait for another spell. How long do you generally stay away?" "Long's I can," she answered simply. "Till I'm afraid baby'll git cold.
"Oh, well," said Mary, "the baby'll be your Christmas. The town can't help that, I guess." "I know," Jenny flashed back brightly, "you and I have got the best of them, haven't we? We've each got one present coming, anyway." "I s'pose we have...." Mary said.
"Mother," says Nannie, as the hardened band moved away leaving the one mourning heart by itself, "mother, come home now, 'tis no use staying here, and baby'll be crying for ye, ye know." Baby! oh! what a link to earth was that! "Where is the child?" said the mother, with a frantic start, as if just awakened from a frightful dream. "Isn't she dead, Nannie?
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