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She'd seem to come an' hang over my bed-canopy same ez a chandelier, with them side curls all a-jinglin' like cut-glass dangles. It's true, she used mostly to appear with a long peach-switch in her hand, but that was nachel enough, that bein' the way she most gen'ally approached me in life. But of co'se I come th'oo without taller.
He'd spent days in the woods a-loggin', and he'd been up to the deestrict o' Maine a-lumberin', and was about up to any sort o' thing a man gen'ally could be up to; but these 'ere March winds sometimes does set on a fellow so, that neither natur' nor grace can stan' 'em.
Paul laughed at Shif'less Sol's tone of deep satisfaction. "Yes, it's good, Sol," he rejoined, "but it won't last. We won't have more than a day of it." The face of the shiftless one took on a look of deep disgust. "Nuthin' good never lasts more'n a day," he said, "an' ef it does last more'n a day you gen'ally git tired o' it." Adam Colfax resumed his watch of the shores.
Folks expects progress of you. Look up to you, kind of. Take their idees from you." "I dunno," said Marvin, visibly pleased, but deprecatory. "Careful, cautious but most gen'ally right, that's what I hear folks say. Quite a bit of talk goin' around about you. Politics. Uh-huh! Heard several say it was a pity Marvin Towne couldn't be got to go to the legislature. Heard that, hain't you, Bogle?"
"Wa'al, sir," he said, "that dum'd egg was about 's near raw as it was when i' was laid, an' the' was a crack in the shell, an' fust thing I knowed it kind o' c'lapsed, an' I give it a grab, an' it squirtid all over my pants, an' the floor, an' on my coat an' vest, an' up my sleeve, an' all over the tray. Scat my ! I looked gen'ally like an ab'lition orator before the war.
The deacon was mowing the front yard of his house when Grant came up to his front gate. "Good-morning, Deacon Gridley," said the minister's son. "Mornin', Grant," answered the deacon. "How's your folks?" "Pretty well in health," returned Grant, coming to business at once, "but rather short of money." "Ministers most gen'ally are," said Deacon Gridley, dryly.
"Yes, I'm shif'less. I'm gen'ally considered shif'less," said William Benslow. He spoke in a tone of satisfaction, and hitched his trousers skilfully into place by their one suspender. His companion shifted his easel a little, squinting across the harbor at the changing light. There was a mysterious green in the water that he failed to find in his color-box. William Benslow watched him patiently.
"I notice that them things mostly come contrariwise," said Shif'less Sol. "When I know that I'm goin' to hev hard luck it's gen'ally good. We'll look for you, Henry, at sundown." But Paul, youthful and imaginative, was impressed, and he regarded Henry with silent sympathy.
That's the way to live, an' all's well 'at ends well, as we hope she will this little orphant thrust upon us without no druther of our own, an' a bad beginnin' gen'ally makes a good ending; an' I 'low I'd best take one more peek into the sittin'-room chamber, afore I go to bed myself. Good night. Don't worry. I've fixed fish-cakes for breakfast."
Harum's face was straight to the front, and betrayed nothing. "It wouldn't be no more 'n natural," he went on, "an' mebbe it would be best for ye. You're too good a man to spend all your days workin' fer Dave Harum, an' I've had it in my mind fer some time somethin' like that pork deal to make you a little independent in case anythin' should happen, an' gen'ally.
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