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"Well," said Calliope, then, "it's the children. No it ain't, it's Friendship. The town's about as broad as a broom straw an' most as deep. Anything differ'nt scares 'em like something wore out'd ought to. Friendship's got an i-dee that Christmas begins in a stocking an' ends off in a candle.
Now 't is differ'nt, an' His rage be waxing." "Your blessed God 's got no common sense, then an' that's all I've got to say 'bout it. What would you have me do?" Will put the question to Mr. Blee, but his wife it was who answered, being now worked up to a pitch of frenzy at the delay. "Go! Dig dig as you never digged afore! Dig the holy stone out the ground direckly minute!
Come to think of it, I donno but a shroud does become most folks like they was rilly well-dressed at last. "She come an' set down to table, quiet as you please an' differ'nt. Your clothes don't make you, by any means, but they just do sort o' hem your edges, or rhyme the ends of you, or give a nice, even bake to your crust I donno. They do somethin'. An' the shroud hed done it to that girl.
I haven't got your snake's patience. Let me have what I've got to have, an' suffer it, an' make an' end of it." "You're in a hurry for a dish that won't be pleasant eating, I assure you." "It's just an' right I tell 'e; an' I knaw it is, though all these years cover it. Your paart 's differ'nt. I lay you 'm in a worse hell than me, even now." "A moralist!
She was a woman that worked, like me, but yet she was wonderful differ'nt. That was when we had our shop together in the house where we lived with the boy I'll come to him in a minute or two. Besides lace-makin', Calliope had a piano an' taught in the fittin'-room that was the same as the dinin'-room. Six scholars took. Sometimes I think it was her knowin' music that made her differ'nt.
I made up my mind that we couldn't go through another winter as we have," was my uncle's answer. "How much did it cost?" she asked. "Not much differ'nt from thirty-four dollars in sheep and grain," he answered. Rodney Barnes stayed to supper and spent a part of the evening with us. Like other settlers there, Mr. Barnes was a cheerful optimist.
'S truth!" he continued, with a gesture of supreme irritation, "but it's a hard thing to be snatched apart like this man an' wife. If I was takin' 'e home to some lew cot, all our very awn, how differ'nt 't would be!" "You will some day." "So I will then. I've got 'e for all time, an' Jan Grimbal's missed 'e for all time. Damned if I ban't a'most sorry for un!" "So am I, in a way, as you are.
"So I do pride myself on my common sense, an' I've some right to. A cross is a cross I allow that and whatever I may think, I ban't so small-minded as to fall foul of them as think differ'nt. My awn mother be a church-goer for that matter, an' you'll look far ways for her equal. But of coourse I knaw what I knaw. Me an' Hicks talked out matters of religion so dry as chaff."
"Nonsense your tellin'," 'Bert interrupted. "Father's put on his uniform. How can you make it that things ben't differ'nt, after that?" "An' he's here!" 'Biades nodded, over his half-lifted spoon, at Nicky-Nan. "Oh!" said 'Bert, "that isn' because of the War. That's to say Good-bye, because he's turnin' out this week."
Yet not much, neither, for wheer the auld stones be, theer you 'm to be expected." "How are you, Chris? But I needn't ask. Yes, I'm fond of the stones." "Well you may be. They talk to 'e like friends, seemingly. An' even I knaw a sight more 'bout 'em now. You've made me feel so differ'nt to 'em, you caan't think."
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