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"This is how Wolfville walks into this petticoat ambush. The camp is gettin' along all peaceful an' serene an' man-fashion.
The glue-works foreman, standing in the doorway of the brick shed, observed his employer's eccentric approach, and doubtfully stroked a whiskered chin. "Well, they ain't no putticular use gettin' so upset over it," he said, as Adams came up. "When a thing happens, why, it happens, and that's all there is to it. When a thing's so, why, it's so.
Hannah, what's the matter with you and me gettin' married?" Hannah stared at him. "Married!" she repeated. "Me get married! Who to, for the land sakes? Are you out of your head?" "Not a mite. What's the matter with you marryin' me?" "My soul! Is this a funny-paper joke, or are you " "'Tain't a joke; I mean it. Is there any reason why we shouldn't marry and settle down together, you and me?
I feel creepy all over." Bill gave it up for that night, but the next day 'e pretended to think Jimmy was gettin' fat an' 'e caught 'old of 'im and prodded 'im all over. He thought 'e felt something round 'is waist, but 'e couldn't be sure, and Jimmy made such a noise that the other chaps interfered and told Bill to leave 'im alone.
As the sharp ring of the little bell announced a customer, she came from behind the pigeon-holed partition that served as a post-office. "Oh, I say, Arabella!" she cried, turning back at the sight of the little wind-blown figure, "mind you, there's a letter for you! Who'd ever 'a' thought o' you gettin' a letter?" Miss Arabella's sensitive face flushed.
"You're gettin' a wholesome white again now. I didn't like that unhealthy greeny-grey. But you've none of you any colour, you gentlemen not you nor your brother nor that pasty Vyvian. None of you but the little curate; he had a nice little pink face. I'm sure I wish some gals cared more for looks, and then they wouldn't go after some as are as well let alone."
She was knocking ashes out of her pipe-bowl against the wall, and nodded in assent. "It's no place for people that can keep shut of it," she said. "If you've ne'er a chance of gettin' into it," said Dan, "I dunno what great good it does you bein' there afore or behind." "Or if you knew there was nothin' left in it you wanted to be goin' after," said his great-aunt, half to herself.
"Why, how can you be so sure I mightn't ever get into jest so bad a way, child? There's none of us can say what diseases we're likely to hev or not to hev. Now there's never been a case o' lung trouble in our family afore mine, not 's fur back 's anybody kin trace it out; 'n' there's been two cancers to my own knowledge; 'n' I allus hed a most awful dread o' gettin' a cancer.
I took both with much relish, and, having appeased an unusually large appetite, got an orderly to wash my face and hands, which were coated with blood. "I dare say you feel as you was gettin' back to civilisation again, sir," he said.
As she stood staring William appeared from the drawing-room staggering under the weight of a priceless little statuette that had been the property of Mr. Brown's great grandfather. "WILLIAM!" she gasped. "I'm gettin' all the little things ready for 'em jus' to carry straight down. If I put everything on the steps they don't need come into the house at all.
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