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This was audacity and yet she liked it. "I am very fond of Moses," she said quickly. "You always was charitable, Cynthy," said he. "Haven't I been charitable to you?" she retorted. "G-guess it has be'n charity," said Jethro. He looked down at her solemnly, thoughtfully, no trace of anger in his face, turned, and without another word strode off in the direction of Coniston Flat.
Dun'no' how all dem oth' young ladies goin' take it!" He laughed with immoderate delight, yet, as to the volume of mere sound, discreetly, with an eye to open windows. "You got 'em all beat, Miss Airil! Dey ain' be'n no one 'roun' dis town evah got in a thousum mile o' you!
"We've be'n wiped out," said the original spokesman. "Cosmo Versal has done a pretty clean job with his flood. There's a kind of a cover that we three hev built, a ways back yonder, out o' timber o' one kind and another that was lodged about. But it wouldn't amount to much if there was another cloudburst. It wouldn't stand a minute. It's good to sleep in."
"Don't know nothink about it, gov'ner." Blake pointed to the spot upon the deck. "What's that, then?" he demanded. The steward moved, uneasily. "A spot I just be'n a-cleanin' of, gov'ner." Blake pointed to the bucket. "And that?" he persisted. "Water, sir." "And ?" The steward slowly drew the back of his hand across dry lips. And then, in a swift rush of strangled words: "Blood, gov'ner.
"You you didn't happen to see him anywhere this this afternoon?" "No'm, I ain' SEE him." Sam's laughter vanished and his lowered voice became serious. "I ain' SEE him, but I hearn about him." "What did you hear?" "Dey be'n consid'able stir on de aidge o' town, I reckon," he answered, gravely, "an' dey be'n havin' some trouble out at de Beach " "Beaver Beach, do you mean?" "Yes'm.
"Well, yes, he had been," answered Bolton. "But she'd be'n in the asylum ever since the child was born." "Oh," said Miss Kilburn, with relief; and she fell back upon the seat from which she had started forward. Bolton might easily have taken her tone for that of disgust. He faced round upon her once more.
Remember there are aged parents; two brothers living one railroading in Spokane Falls, the other clerking in Washington, D.C. Don't mention the Universalists there's be'n two in the fam'ly; nor insanity there's be'n one o' them. The girl in the corner is the one that the remains has be'n keeping comp'ny with. If you can make some genteel allusions to her, it'll be much appreciated by his folks."
"I see you'd be'n putting up some kind of job on her the minute she mentioned the cars. Don't you fret any, Miss Kilburn. Rebecca and me'll get along with her, you needn't be afraid."
He was the strongest swimmer that I ever knowed, the strongest and the fearlessest! "George Olver never'll be content. He would 'a' gone in after him. We'd be'n driv' a furlong back, I reckon, and every mark was lost. It 'ud be'n naught but to swaller him, too. He lost his sense. We had to holt him back. He raved thar', like a madman.
I've got to go on with the boys, now." Abruptly he left the room, and once more paused in the hall before passing through the office. "She's game, all right. An' the way she can look at a fellow out of those eyes of hers By God! Purdy ought to be'n killed!"
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