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"I ain't quite made up my mind," said her mentor. "I'll talk it over with the neighbors. But I 'spect, if we kin skeer up a quarter, that you'll answer by the mornin's mail." That night Lovey Mary sat in her little attic room and held Tommy close to her hungry heart.
"It's a poor business looking at the sun with a cloudy face." The long, hot summer days that followed were full of trials for Lovey Mary. Day after day the great unwinking sun glared savagely down upon the Cabbage Patch, upon the stagnant pond, upon the gleaming rails, upon the puffing trains that pounded by hour after hour.
You leave Krill and its old Baileys, if old Baileys there are in it, alone, my lovey, and be Miss Norman till the passon and the clark, and the bells and the ringers, and the lawr and the prophets turn you into the loveliest bride as ever was," and Deborah nodded vigorously.
We walked downhill beside him, holding on to the superstructure to prevent her capsizing. These technical details, 'owever, are beyond me. He waved his pipe towards Leggatt. 'I saw there was two deepish ruts leadin' down 'ill somewhere, said Leggatt. 'That was when the soldiers stopped laughin', and begun to run uphill. 'Stroll, lovey, stroll! Pyecroft corrected.
And so it came about that Gyp, who, by nature also never set foot anywhere without invitation, was always hearing the words: "Step in, Miss Gyp"; "Step in, and sit down, lovey," and a good many words besides from even the boldest and baddest characters. There is nothing like a soft and pretty face and sympathetic listening for seducing the hearts of "the people."
When Lovey Mary stumbled over the Hazy threshold with the sleeping Tommy and the duck in her arms, Miss Hazy fluttered about in dismay. She pushed the flour-sifter farther over on the bed and made a place for Tommy, then she got a chair for the exhausted girl and hovered about her with little chirps of consternation. "Dear sakes! You're done tuckered out, ain't you? You an' the baby got losted?
Lovey Mary did not understand very clearly what Miss Viny was talking about, but she was glad to follow her in the winding paths, where new beauties were waiting at every turn. "These is geraniums, ain't they? One of the girls had one, once, in a flower-pot when she was sick." "Yes," said Miss Viny; "they're Methodist.
John Bagby burned the rest of the calcium powder during the last verse, and the entertainment concluded in a prolonged cheer. "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie." When the paint and powder had been washed off, and Tommy had with difficulty been extracted from his new trousers and put to bed, Lovey Mary sat before the little stove and thought it all over.
When a certain course of action was once understood to be the proper thing, every resident promptly fell in line. The victim of "celebrated concussion" was overwhelmed with attention. She lay in a pink wrapper in Miss Hazy's kitchen, and received the homage of the neighborhood. Meanwhile Lovey Mary worked extra hours at the factory and did sewing at night to pay for Kate's board.
"Do I look so different?" "I should say you do," said Miss Hazy, admiringly, as she spread a newspaper for a table-cloth. "I never seen no one answer to primpin' like you do." When it was quite dark Lovey Mary rolled something in a bundle and crept out of the house.
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