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He jerked his head towards the boy, then towards the outhouse or scullery where his wife was. "She takes it terr'ble hard. She wanted me to run. But I said, 'No, I'll stan' it out. Mr. Brown at the Court'll give you the bit wages he owes me. But they'll have to go on the Union. Everybody'll turn their backs on them now."
Tee Wee and Loo are there, and everybody'll be delighted to have you. In the open air all day, sleep ten hours every night, eat your blessed head off. No mosquitoes. No malaria " "I can't go now, Hen. It's impossible. Thank you just the same." He spoke quite irritably, for him, and Hen, having had this subject up more than once before, desisted and turned to go.
"You must come back with me, Barbara. If you don't everybody'll know what's happened." "I can't, Fanny." "He won't be there. You won't see him till your wedding day. He's going to stay with Granny. He says she isn't very well." "I'm sorry she isn't well." "She's perfectly well. That isn't what he's going for." Across the Square they could see the door of the Dower House open and receive him.
"We can't afford to take another holiday on grub wages, and we're only two to work today," said Demorest, with a slight increase of color and the faintest tremor in his voice. "And it won't do, old chap, for us to be seen bumming round with you on the heels of your good fortune. For everybody knows we're poor, and sooner or later everybody'll know you WERE rich even when you first came to us."
I give religion its due he wants to do his duty, only he doesn't see what it is. He must live with his wife. His prayers will come in nicely afterwards." Sir Peter chuckled. "There's something in your idea, Sarah," he admitted. "But it's a damned expensive process. All my strawberries will go. And if it rains, everybody'll come into the house and scuttle over my library like so many rabbits."
"Now that's a fine question for a ten-hours' wifey to ask her hubby, ain't it? Am I sorry, she asks me before the wedding crowd has turned the corner. Lord, honey, I never expected anything like you to happen to me!" She stroked his coat-sleeve, mouthing back tears. "Now everybody'll say you're a goner for sure marrying a Popular Store girl."
"Now, Rose," said she, "you are making half of this, for you know as well as I, that grandma's house hasn't got any shutters." "Oh, mercy, no more it hasn't. What shall I do?" said Rose, half crying with vexation. "That coarse muslin stuff is worse than nothing, and everybody'll be looking in to see me."
And everybody'll be kind, then, and never run away and hide; and there won't be any post offices, or anything disagreeable." "What'll you be, Johnnie?" asked Clover, anxious to change the subject, for Elsie's voice was growing plaintive. But Johnnie had no clear ideas as to her future. She laughed a great deal, and squeezed Dorry's arm very tight, but that was all. Dorry was more explicit.
"Think of that, Pete! And she soliciting us. That'll be good news for your loving husband. Come along, Queenie. Your record's against you. Everybody'll know you've dropped back to your old ways." "I am going to my husband," said she quietly. "You had better not annoy me." Pete looked uneasy, but Black Mustache's sinister face became more resolute.
"There," broke in Miss Jerusha, "a cat can't sneeze in this town but everybody'll know it in quarter of an hour." And then Mrs. Henderson took Polly out to see a brood of new little chicks, that had just popped their heads out into the world; and to Polly, down on her knees, admiring, the time passed very swiftly indeed.
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