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Ye've won her, stranger! an' ye've got her. All I kin now do is to say, that, from the bottom o' my heart I consent to yur keepin' her." "Thanks thanks!" Lilian was mine for ever. The curtain falls upon our drama; and brief must be the epilogue.
"My word, but Muster Maurice he wor the clergyman here then, miss wor set on Mercy Moss. He and his wife they flattered and cockered her up. Ther wor nobody like her for keepin' school, not in their eyes till one midsummer she well she I don't want to say nothink onpleasant but she transgressed," said Mrs.
The fellow seemed now to try to be more respectful, for he had a hat on his head which he took off, and made a clumsy attempt at a bow. "Beg pardon, miss," said he, "for keepin' you waitin'; but I had to put the hosses in. Mr. Wiggins says as how you're to come up in the brougham, an' your trunks an' things 'll be took up afterward. "But I want to drive up in this coach.
I must say, it's kind of a draggy rush line they formed, Tidman havin' to be almost pushed, and Peters keepin' well in the rear. I finds myself leadin' the assault, with Waldo a bad second, but tellin' me which turns to make and urgin' Tidman to follow close. Sure enough, though, there on the laundry floor we discovers the victorious Mrs.
Before she went away she had been, to use the vernacular of the Settlement, "keepin' company with Jim-Ed A'ki'son;" and now, to her, the young man seemed to unite and concentrate in his person all that she had been wont to persuade herself she had outgrown. To be sure, she not seldom caught herself dropping back comfortably into the old conditions.
She bought, too, for such hotels as the Blackstone and the Congress, and for half a dozen big restaurants. She gave him bare facts, but he was shrewd enough and sufficiently versed in business to know that here was a woman of established commercial position. "But how does it happen you're keepin' it up, Emma, all this time?
He was going to be president of the college some day, like his father before him; an' it was her place to help him in every way she could help him to be popular an' well-liked by all the college people an' students; an' he couldn't be that if she insisted all the time on keepin' him to herself, or lookin' sour an' cross if she couldn't have him.
"I'll ride up ahead with Williams you're pretty full up, back here in the car, anyway and then you'll know that two of your own men are keepin' tab on the run. With the wrecks we're enjoying " Lidgerwood was impatient of mysteries. "What do you mean, Andy?" he broke in. "Anything new?" "Oh, nothing you could put your finger on.
There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough. An' you've nothing to show for't when it's done, if it isn't a yallow face wi' eatin' things as disagree." "Nay, nay," said Mr.
Well, I'd got the main- halliards led aft to where I was sittin', and as they closed, I gently sways the sail up, a few inches at a time, and keeps grad'lly away, until we was all spinnin' away dead to the south'ard, they paddlin' like fury, and I just keepin' far enough ahead to be out of range of their harrers.
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