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You wouldn't have to go away then, nor My soul and body! some one's knockin' at the door! The last sentence was a smothered shriek. Keziah heeded not. Neither did she heed the knock at the door. Her hands were opening and closing convulsively. "Be glad!" she repeated. "Glad to marry a good-for-nothin' sand-peep like you! You sassy GET down off that chair and out of this house!
I gathered up my portion of matter from the illuminated heap of "government," beside the sand-peep pie on the table, and with a fond smile at Lunette I also departed. Always now on the evening of post day, after I had read my newspapers, came the worn shawl and the dark, weary eyes Vesty, to sit awhile with Miss Pray.
Tyson come home with a harf-bushel, an' what are ye goin' to do? Onct a year, Ty says, he wants ter jest stuff himself to the collar-bone on sand-peep pie, an' then he don't want to see nary one, nor hear 'em mentioned in his sight not for another year."
A murmur of approval ran through the room. Blushing, embarrassed, but swollen with pride, I picked up another sand-peep to pluck. At that instant "Snipe," the household and post-office dog, ran across the floor with high-careering head, holding a huge envelope in his teeth. "Stop him! stop him!" cries arose: "it's Elvine's registered letter, 't 's goin' to Boston for a tea-set!"
Ef I was so dyin' crazy for news 's that, I'd go an' live to Machias!" "That does seem dissipated and unreasonable, certainly," I assented, interested in the endeavor to extract the minutest pin-feathers from the tail of the sand-peep. "Ef they was all like Major Henry, I told 'em, the post-office 'ud be easy runnin', an' I don't care if I do say it afore his face.
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