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Then maybe she ain't come back yet, an' we could meet her on the way. Eh?" "Oh, I'm afraid she must have gone back to the girls long ago," said Bessie. "Well, you jump in behind there, and get under cover. Ain't no one goin' to look in you'll be snug there, if it is a mite hot. An' I'll just drive along an' see if I can't meet your Miss Mercer. Then we'll know what to do.
Still, if I must spend it, there is the Howard Society, and the women and children without food and clothing at the Agricultural Hall. I thank the generous gondolier, and we go to the Hall, a dismal, bleak place, ghastly with the memories of last year's opulence and plenty, and here Giuseppe's fare is swelled by the stranger's mite.
You said, you understood me, but you don't, one mite or morsel; but men are made differently, some people's narves operate on the brain sensitively and give them exquisite pain or excessive pleasure; other folks seem as if they had no narves at all. You understand my words, but you don't enter into my feelings.
Her national pavilion is built of red brick and stone and is a reproduction of the Orangery, a building two hundred years old. It wuz Queen Ann's favorite home, and I didn't blame Ann a mite for lovin' it. As I walked through the beautiful and stately rooms I thought I would have loved to neighbor with Ann and spend some time with her.
And when Mac said they must pool their stores, the Colonel and the Boy agreed as readily as O'Flynn, whose stores consisted of a little bacon, some navy beans, and a demijohn of whisky. O'Flynn, however, urged that probably every man had a little "mite o' somethin'" that he had brought specially for himself somethin' his friends had given him, for instance. There was Potts, now.
Wherefore, pray, as a token of my respects to you, accept of this small mite; so she put a gold angel in his hand, and he made her a low obeisance, and said, Let thy garments be always white, and let thy head want no ointment. Let Mercy live, and not die, and let not her works be few.
"H-how'd you know it how'd you know it, Cynthy?" How did she know it, indeed? "I guessed it," said Cynthia, desperately, "knowing you, I guessed it." "A-always thought you was smart, Cynthy." "Tell me, did you do this thing?" "Th-thought you knowed it th-thought you knowed." "I believe that these men are doing your bidding." "Hain't you guessin' a little mite too much; Cynthy?"
"May the Lord look out for you," she said, "if you should happen to outlive me! I don't know what would become of you, Maria, you are so heedless, wearing your best things every day, and everything." Maria's face paled. "Mother, you aren't any worse?" said she, in a terrified whisper. "No, I am not a mite worse. Run along, child, and hang up your dress, then go to bed; it's after nine o'clock."
"O, I'm sorry you should have taken so much trouble," she exclaimed. "I wonder if the phæton will be ready soon?" "Mr. Ingraham he's got back," replied the lady. "He says Rylocks'll be through with it in about half an hour. Don't you be a mite concerned. Jest set here and drink your tea, and rest. Dot, I guess you'd as good's come down-stairs. I shall be wantin' you with them fly nets.
It was such a responsibility they must not have the baby grow up to suffer as they had. And this indeed had been the first thing that Jurgis had thought of himself he had clenched his hands and braced himself anew for the struggle, for the sake of that tiny mite of human possibility.
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