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I knowed it wuz indeed to them, the big Wonder Place, and beauty spot of the world and their life. I didn't go out that evenin', weariness and rumatiz both kep me to home a settin' on that piazza. And in vain for me did the countless lights burn and blaze. The great tower that lighted up the deep breast of the Atlantic, for milds and milds, couldn't light up my gloomy sperit. Where wuz my Josiah?
What it wer he could not think; but he never consayted there was a freet or a bo thereaway; so he kep near it, watching every spang and turn it took, till it ran into the gripe by the roadside. There was a gravel pit just there, and Tom Ettles wished to take another gliff at it before he went on.
He couldn't stand that forever. This mornin' the pain sorter left him, but there was that one idee on his mind. The ship was all loaded, and he'd got to wait for high tide to git it off, and he wanted to go to sleep, but he couldn't, because he'd got to watch the tide. "'Oh, if I could only rest, now, he kep' a savin', weak and slow. 'If I could only go to sleep now; and so he moaned and moaned.
"Well, they say 't was the little dog that kep' runnin' that got there Saturday night." "Should you play in concerts, do you suppose?" asked Betty, with reverence for such overpowering ambition in the rough lad. "You bet, an' travel with shows an' things," responded Seth.
"Yes, just that." "That is a strong assertion, Lewis, but coming from you it means something. Step aside here and explain yourself," said Col. Zane, getting up and walking out to the fence. "I don't like the looks of things," said the hunter. "A month ago I ketched this man Miller pokin' his nose round the block-house where he hadn't ought to be. And I kep' watchin' him.
But they kep' on to that extent that I had to say, "Josiah and Arvilly, the one that figger represents, said: 'Above all things have charity, for charity covers a multitude of sin." Miss Meechim and Dorothy and Robert Strong clumb clear up into the dome twice as high as Bunker Hill monument or ruther walked up for they hain't stairs, but a smooth wooden way leads up, up to that hite.
"That's all we found on him, miss," said he, "that an' a couple o' cigars. He hadn't no watch, no blunt, no latch-key, no nothink. I kep' this here careful to bring it you. Bless ye, I can read, I can, well, but I've not read that there. I couldn't even smoke of his cigars. No, I guv 'em to a pal. This here job warn't done for money, miss! It were done for for well for you!"
Of the farmer she asked, while her pulses almost stopped, some information about Ephraim. "He's kep up the place to a wonderful degree like his father," said the farmer. From this she gathered that Ephraim was alive and in better health. She asked no more; her lips refused to form his name again.
Then I seen this pretty silk sack and I wanted it terrible. "I says to myself as how I was goin' to keep it. It wasn't my fault if you throwed it into the rubbish can by mistake. My husband he said I hadda right to it, 'cause findin' was keepin'. So I kep' it, but it made me feel bad. I was brung up honest and I knowed it was the same as stealin'. "But I wanted it terrible, jus' the same.
"You've kep' us from startin' to eat 'bout five minutes a'ready, an' I'm as holler as a horn!" It was as cheery, gay, festive, neighborly, and friendly a supper as ever took place in the dining room of the Yellow House, although Governor Weatherby may have had some handsomer banquets in his time. When it was over all made their way into the rosy, bowery, summer parlor.
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