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You don't go every day, I fancy, eh?" "Sugar! How'd he know that, now?" chuckled Hezekiah, turning to his wife in open glee. "So we don't, stranger, so we don't," he added, turning back to the man. "Ye hit it plumb right." "Hm-m! great place, Boston," observed the stranger. "I'm glad you're going. I think you'll enjoy it." The two wrinkled old faces before him fairly beamed.
It would set some woman to thinking about the next time the young people are to gather in her home for a delightful social evening with her own daughters. She will think about some forms of pastime that are found everywhere. They are not wrong, that has been conclusively proven. But to please Him. Hm-m. And these will go out.
"Yes, and some concert engagements good ones, for next season. Accompaniments, you know." Billy nodded. "Yes; I've heard of you already twice, lately, in that line, and very flatteringly, too." "Have you? Well, that's good." "Hm-m." There was a moment's silence, then, abruptly, Billy changed the subject. "I had a letter from Belle Calderwell, yesterday."
"Hm-m; that does look suspicious," murmured Cyril. "What's up, do you think?" "Don't know; but something, sure. Still, of course we may be wrong. We won't say anything to Will about it, anyhow. Poor old chap, 'twould worry him, specially if he thought Billy's feelings had been hurt." "Hurt? nonsense! Why, we did everything for her everything!"
I was thinkin'." She hesitated a moment, then added, a little feverishly: " it's ever so much cooler here than up ter the fair grounds now, ain't it, Hezekiah?" The old man threw a sharp look at her face. "Hm-m, yes," he said. "Mebbe 't is." From far down the road came the clang of a bell.
He could see on its face the Division headquarters stamp Lethbridge but why all this ceremony and pother about an official note that came almost every day? He recalled suddenly that his wife would be holding lunch for him with fresh fish he had seen unloaded little more than an hour ago from the through train from Vancouver. He could almost smell it sizzling on the natural gas cooker. "Hm-m!"
There was no word could describe the ferocity of the terrible creature's pallid countenance! and, as for speed Well, Susanna herself had made the record of her life, yet he, with several minutes' disadvantage, had actually overtaken her and grabbed at her shawl. Witness! said shawl dragging behind her when she entered. "Hm-m!
"Quite an oversight that you were not consulted. We are selling to Doan, Rockwell & Haight. Ever heard of them?" "Who says we're selling?" "I say so. And, if you've got to have all the news, Miss Sanford says so." "She does, does she? Hm-m. First I knew of it. What figger?" "Really, does that concern you? If the price suits me and Miss Sanford, who own the stock, does it in any way affect you?
"I frisk 'em while they're good and healthy, and you 'take' 'em when they're feeble. I don't see no difference to speak of." "It's an interesting viewpoint," the physician agreed, seriously enough, "and I respect every man's opinion. Tell me, how did you acquire that cough?" "Livin' in a ground-floor apartment." "What's your business?" "Harness-maker." "Hm-m! You'll do well up here."
"But Heaven only knows what I'm going to do with him when I get him. What shall I say to him, anyway? How shall I write? I don't know how to get up a letter of that sort!" "Why not take him at his word and telegraph? I fancy you won't have to say 'come' but once before you see him. He doesn't seem to be a bashful youth." "Hm-m; I might do that," acquiesced William, slowly.
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