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We have offered time and time again to build you a house fo’ buzzuds, they bein’ the only birds hyearabouts, but you ’low that you ain’t fav’ble to tamin’ ’em." "I wuz raised in Tennessee, an’ we-uns had a house for martins made out’n gourds, an’ it was pearty." The pride with which she repeated this particular claim to honor in an alien land never diminished with repetition.
An' yet often, when he was pintin' out yer letters ter yer, or showin' yer pearty tings, like as you was a chile, he look so happy and gentle like, dat I say he jes' like a moder." Grace was touched, and yet deep, deep in her soul she felt that a wrong had been done her, no matter what had been the motives.
All de picters you'se eber seen can't beat dat!" and Grace gazed long and fixedly at the lovely creature that gazed back with troubled and bewildered eyes. "Was was I like that when when he married me?" "Yes, an' no, honey. You only look like a picter of a woman den a berry pearty picter, but nothin' but a picter arter all. Mas'r Graham hab brought yer ter life."
To her the case was analogous to releasing a child from the duress of a corner and turning him loose to play with matches. "How kem they to let him out?" she repeated, the still rocking-chair conveying the impersonal dignity of the pulpit or the justice-seat. "I ’ain’t hearn tell of so pearty a couple as the jail an’ Jim in years."
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