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Hannah's mother was bending fretfully over the kitchen stove, and Richmond, her father, was drawing off sodden leather boots. He was a man tall and bowed, stiff but still powerful, with a face masked in an unkempt tangle of beard. "H'y, Calvin," he cried; "you're just here for spoon licking! Lucy was looking for company." Mrs.
Rutherford Berry was a slightly-built man with high, narrow shoulders, and a smooth, pasty-white face. He was clerk in a store at the farther end of Greenstream valley, and had flat, fragile wrists and a constant, irritating cough. "H'y, Gord!" he shouted; "your sister wanted to visit with you over night, and see Lettice. We only brought two the oldest and Barnwell K."
Sentimental tears rolled dustily over Phebe's cheeks as she kissed and embraced her mother and sisters. "H'y," Richmond Braley awkwardly saluted her; and "H'y," she answered in the local manner. "Well," he commented, "you hain't forgotten that anyway." Calvin was asked to stay for the supper that had been delayed for Phebe's return, but when he declined uncertainly he wasn't pressed.
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