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"Off with it this minute, then, Miss; it's better nor nought. Now, then, my lamb! my pretty! see ef Maggie don't pull you round in a twinkling!" She rubbed and chafed the little creature's limbs, and soon baby opened her eyes, and gave a weak, piteous cry. "I wish I had something to give her afore I put her in the bath," said Maggie. "There's sure to be sperits of some sort in a house like this.
Seth looked grimly at his wife. "Don't look much ez ef he could hurt anybody." "He looks like a sick man," returned Mrs. Rivers calmly.
"Oiling the saw again, I see," I said at last glancing with reverent admiration of such benign industry at the oil-can. "No," said Captain Leezur kindly; "I wa'n't, I was a-goin' deown, by 'n' by, to the cove, to ca'm the water deown, 'n' see ef I c'd spear up a few fleounders; but I ain't in no hurry. I'd jest as soon set areound on the int'rust o' my money!"
He was so happy that he could n't let go her hand. "An' jes' look at the boy! Ef he ain't got the impidence to be waihin' a mustache too. You must 'a' been lettin' the cats lick yo' upper lip. Did n't expect to see me in New York, did you?" "No, indeed. What you doin' here?"
Nancy slipped from the seat, and together they left the car and stepped out upon the platform. "I didn't ask ye ef ye wanted ter bring anything with yer?" said Sue. "Ye could hev packed a little bag with anything ye'd want while ye was here." "Why, what should I want to bring in a bag?" Nancy asked in surprise. "I didn't know but you'd want a apron, a night-gown, or something," Sue replied.
They let me stake a claim, but nobody offers to lend me a pick or a shovel, an' nobody ever comes to the shanty to spend the evenin', 'less it's a greenhorn. Curse 'em all! I'll make some of 'em bleed fur it. I'll git their dust, an' go back East; ther's plenty of folks thar that'll be glad to see me, ef I've got the dust.
I bought the land of you fer a thousand dollars each an' there's my deed to it, that you jest signed I reckon you can read it. Ef I sell the land to the company it's none o' your business what I git fer it. "Well, I can't read not greatly. I don't know how I knowed but I did know that he was gittin' from the company the five thousand dollars apiece that we was to have had.
Williams is dying, they say; I cannot stop a minute," and he was out of sight while the baffled parishioners stood confounded at their ill-luck. "Now jest as like's not we shan't never know what was in that letter," said. Eben Hill, disconsolately. "Ef we'd ha'gone in and set down while he read it, we sh'd ha' had some chance."
"Danged ef I don't send that feller a pair of shoes unbeknownst, to-morrow! He's workin' hard, an' it's not for money." The great Peace held even its erring Church, as Adam dully saw. The streets were darkening, but full even yet of children crowding in and out of the shops.
Woodridge; "ef ye keer to join us thar's a seat in the wagon, and I'll turn on a couple of Chinamen to do the work for you, just now; and Nelly or the old woman will give you a lift this afternoon with the counting up." Reddy felt instinctively that the invitation had been instigated by the young girl.
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