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Mis' Battis told Luther Goodell afterwards, that she "jest looked in from the next room, at that, and if ever a woman felt cheap all over and as if she hadn't a right to her own toes and fingers, and as if every thread and stitch on her turned mean, all at once it was Mrs. Gimp, that minit!" "Has Faith returned?" Mr. Armstrong asked, of Mrs. Gartney, after a little pause in which Mrs.
Pinkey nodded her head, with its crown of hair that glittered like bronze. Chook stopped to think. "I'm orl right," he said to Waxy and Joe; "I'll ketch up with yer in a minit." They understood and walked on. He stood and stared at Pinkey with a scowl that softened imperceptibly into a smile, and then a passionate flame leapt into his eyes. "Cum 'ere," he said; and Pinkey obeyed him like a child.
Key, that ef she'd been alive she'd bin yere that I believed it true for a minit! And that was why, afore this happened, I had a dream, right out yer, and dreamed she kem to me, all white and troubled, through the woods.
An' thar's no gittin' them out, nuther. I snaked under the house yestiddy an' sarched, an' sarched! an' I never fund but two. An' Towse, he dragged hisself under thar, too jes' a-growlin' an' a- snappin'. I thought fur sartin every minit he'd bite my foot off."
"I was down there last fall, and who should I see but Thomas Rigby, of Windsor. He knew me the minit he laid eyes upon me, for I had sold him a clock the summer afore. 'Why, says I, 'possible? is that you, Mr.
"'He-uh, uh! cert'nly not, he says. "'Wait a minit, I says. 'I can't sell him fer that because I said I wouldn't; but if you feel like drawin' your check fer one-seventy-six, I says, 'we'll call it a deal," The speaker paused with a chuckle. "Well?" said John. "Wa'al," said David, "he, he, he, he! That clean took the wind out of him, an' he got redder 'n a beet.
Great was the dissatisfaction of the stout-hearted Splinter at my retreat, as he called it, from the enemy's ground. "I'd ha' liked nothin' better than to beat up them quarters. I thought every minit' you'd be calling me, and was ready to go in." And he clenched his fist in a way that showed unmistakably how he would have "gone in" had he been summoned.
'But the man snarled at her, and says, "Naw, I won't; I'm tired's you be. Hustle now, an' bring me the grub mighty quick." 'I scooted back to my chair then, and in a minit or so she come in an' motioned me to come into the other room. I see they had mistook me for some deef nurse, an' I begun to think I'd grabbed more'n I could hold, an' to wish I was out.
"Not this time," said Lee, shaking his hard fist in Charles's face; "but we may come acrost you some time when you hasn't nobody to stand up for you; then you had better look out hadn't he, Pete?" "Hadn't he, though!" was the answer. Charles did not need any urging, and he was quickly out of sight. "I'd like to see you jest a minit, Frank," said Lee, as the former was about to move away.
But it was overlooked by Collinson, who was taking his gun from beside the tree where he had placed it, "Where are you going?" she said suddenly. "I reckon them fellers ought to be warned o' what you heard. I'll be back in a minit."
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