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Now, there's no use for you to talk I'm going to do just as I say." "Well, I think that's just dreadful!" said Miss Mattie. "I'd like to know what folks will think of me to hear I turned my own cousin out in the barn." Her voice trailed off a little at the end as the gist of what they might say if he stayed in the house, occurred to her.
As always before, it began with an arraignment of the facts in the case, a search of memory for any forgotten data which might lead to a conclusion. The first crisis arrived on the evening when Judge Tiffany came home in a plain mood of disgust, and announced baldly: "Well, Mattie; our young friend did everything I expected of him." He went on quite simply with the news.
Rachel, metaphorically, sits on a stool and tries to please. To put off 'the Duke' by telephone! what a horrid indignity! But I've just inflicted it." Mattie Field smiled, and was just going away when she was arrested by a timid question from Doris. "Please shall Arthur go down to Pitlochry and engage a room for Miss Wigram?" Miss Field turned in amusement. "A room! Why, it's all ready!
Goodness gracious knows it ain't much of a livin' I've made sin' I come across you, Miss! Exit. Susan! Susan! A tap at the door, and enter MRS. CLIFFORD, with JAMES behind. MATTIE rises. Mrs. C. Wait on the landing, James. James. Yes, ma'am. Exit JAMES, leaving the door a little ajar. Mrs. C. Well, Miss Pearson! That person is still with you, I see! Mat. Indeed, ma'am, she's an honest girl. Mrs.
But I won't never be hard on no buy as wants to make a honest livin'. So you be hoff! I'll show the old gen'leman where he wants to go to. BILL moves two paces, and takes a sight at him. Tho. The Lord be praised! Dosto know eawr Mattie then? James. It's the dooty of a detective hofficer to know every girl in his beat. Bill. My eye! there's a oner! Tho. Tak mo to her, sir, an' aw'll pray for yo.
"I have not that honor," was the haughty reply, the lady drawing up her costly shawl and moving a little away from her interlocutor, who continued: "I thought like enough you might have seen 'Tilda, or Mattie she calls herself now. She is a right nice girl, and Tom is a very forrard boy."
Hawkins and her daughter Mandy." "Speakin' o' Mandy, you know she's got two little boys twins, one named after Deacon Mason, and t'other after your husband's friend Obadiah Strout, ther perfesser and she's got a little girl, nigh on ter two years old named Marthy after me but they don't call her Marthy it's allus Mattie. These new-fangled names fuss me all up.
"Yes, and then I must toddle off and look for something else to do. You see, I haven't much of a gift so to speak for business, Mattie, and it takes me so long to get worked into an understanding of a business or trade that I'm generally asked to quit before you might say I've really commenced.
"I didn't suppose you'd know me, Mattie," said Jedediah, still holding her hand foolishly. "I knew you the minute I set eyes on you," returned Mattie. "You're some fatter and older like myself but you're Jed still. Where have you been all these years?" "Pretty near everywhere, Mattie pretty near everywhere. And ye see what it's come to here I be driving a tin-wagon for Boone Brothers.
He came on board the "Mattie Bell" and personally superintended the lading clothing, corn, oats, salt, and hay besides putting upon the Government boats large quantities of supplies which we could not take on at first, and giving us his blessing, watched us steam out on our joint mission; they putting off rations of meat and meal we supplementing with clothing for the people and feed for the stock.
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