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I'll give you the money, and you can get the linin's too, while you're about it." "I'll send you some samples, Aunty, and then you can take your choice." "And " began Mrs. Ball. "Did you know Mrs. Pendleton was going away, Aunty?" asked Ruth, hastily. "Do tell! Elmiry Peavey goin' travellin'?" "Yes, she's going somewhere for a visit I don't know just where."
Having breathlessly gone that far, she was able to finish with greater self-command. "Ther linin's in sheer rags. I kin be mendin' thet wust place by the sleeve thar whilst ye talks." "The coat kin wait," he declared. Her line of defense was bending now, under the weight of his onslaught, and it was no time for trivial interruption, but Alexander leaned forward and picked the thing up.
His mother 'n' father got turrible sick of it; so much sunshine in the house made a continual drouth, so old Mis' Popham used to say. For her part, she said, she liked to think that, once in a while, there was a cloud that was a first-class cloud; a thick, black cloud, clean through to the back! She was tired to death lookin' for Ossian's silver linin's!
"Thet's proof enough to me he ain't right." "Wimmin," says Watty, as the result of a period of philosophical consideration, "is all crazy about clothes. When a feller's got good clothes you can't make them see no harm into him, no matter what he is. I pressed some of Duncan's last Satiddy. I never see clothes such goods and linin's.
I've mended your coat linin's and sewed on buttons, and darned and patched, and I've took Barbara North's blue hair ribbon back to her the one you found some place and had in your pocket. You mustn't be careless about those things, Roger she might think you meant to steal it." "What did Barbara say?" he stammered. The high colour had mounted to his temples.
"I don't know," sez I sadly, "I don't know, Josiah, and anyway the winds sweep down the lagoons, and azmy lingers on its wings. Pause, Josiah Allen, for my sake, for liniments and poultices as well as clouds have their dark linin's, and they turn 'em out to me as I ponder on your course." Sez I, "Your danger appauls me, and also the idee of bein' up nights with you."
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