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At last Miss Swan abruptly brought out the studies of Lemuel's head, and put them in a good light; 'Manda Grier and Statira got into the wrong place to see them. 'Manda blurted out, "Well, he looks 's if he'd had a fit of sickness in that one;" and perhaps, in fact, Miss Carver had refined too much upon a delicate ideal of Lemuel's looks. "So he d-o-o-es!" drawled Statira.
Lemuel's mother did not ask him much about his life in Boston; she had not the materials for curiosity about it; but he told her everything that he thought she could understand. She recurred to his hopes when he left home and their disappointment in Sewell, and she asked if Lemuel ever saw him nowadays.
"I suspect you'll find it more interesting than I shall," said the minister, inwardly preparing himself for the amusement which Lemuel's history always created in his hearers. It seemed to him, as he began, that he was always telling this story, and that his part in the affair was always becoming less and less respectable.
"Ah," said Sewell, putting the card in his pocket, "I'm very glad to hear that." He had something, but not so much, of the difficulty in overcoming Lemuel's reluctance that he had feared, and on the morning named Lemuel presented himself at the address on Bellingham's card exactly at nine.
Bellingham tells me you know my friend Sewell," said the clergyman. Lemuel's face kindled. "Oh yes! Do you know him too?" "Yes, I've known him a long time. He's a capital fellow, Sewell is." "I think he's a great preacher," ventured Lemuel. "Ah well yes? Is he? I've never heard him lecture," said Mr. Seyton, looking down at his bread.
"Morning, mates," said Lemuel's friend cheerfully, as he entered the shed, and put his horse down beside one of the piles. "Thought we'd look in and see how you was gettin' along. Just stepped round from the Parker House while our breakfast was a-cookin'. Hope you all rested well?" The men paused, with their saws at different slopes in the wood, and looked round.
To be sure, you might say that if a fellow came along and offered to pay you fifty cents for changing a ten-dollar bill, you had a right to take it; but there was a voice in Lemuel's heart which warned him that greed to another's hurt was sin, and that if you took too much for a thing from a necessitous person, you oppressed and robbed him.
In the midst of his own uneasiness Sewell noted Lemuel's. "Is there anything something you wished to speak with me about?" "No. No, not anything in particular. I just saw the light, and " Sewell took his hand and wrung it with affection. "It was so good of you to run in and see me. Don't fancy it's been any disturbance.
He was about to pass without noticing her, but she again secured attention by her usual preface, "Say," when she had a somewhat extended communication to make. "Come to the dairy room, Jane, and say your say there," said Holcroft not unkindly. "She aint goin' to Cousin Lemuel's," said the girl, from the door. "What is she going to do." "Rock in the parlor. Say, can't I help Mrs.
"I thought may be there was a mistake all the while," said the captain to the officer, while he wrote down Lemuel's name. "But if a man hain't got sense enough to speak for himself, I can't put the words in his mouth. Age?" he demanded savagely of Lemuel. "Twenty." "Weight?" "A hundred and thirty." "I could see with half an eye that the girl wan't very sanguine about it. But what's the use?
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