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Stan spoke so calmly that this time the dragon began to get a little frightened, though he did not quite believe that things would be as bad as Stan said. They returned to the house, took all the food that could be found in the old mother's larder, and carried it back to the place where the club was lying.
"Ah don' see how ye c'n stan' him, nohow, Bud," she often said, and Bud as often replied, "Ah never did see anythin' like the prejudice o' women! They certainly ain' no doubt about yo' sex, M'lissy." Pink bore his part in the present conversation with no trace of embarrassment. Indeed, there was an assertiveness in his bearing that reacted upon Melissa to produce extreme shyness.
'She hasn't named the day, I said. 'Sooner the better, said Uncle Eb as he drew on his coat and sat down. 'Used if be so t'when a young couple hed set up 'n held each other's han's a few nights they was ready fer the minister. Wish't ye could fix it fer 'bout Crissmus time, by jingo! They's other things goin'if happen then. s pose yer s'happy now ye can stan' a little bad news.
While I'm cookin' 'em you fellers will stan' 'roun', an' them sav'ry smells will make you so hungry you can't bear to wait, but you'll hev to, 'cause I won't let you touch a duck till it's br'iled jest right. Are thar any more whar these come from, Sol?" "Not jest at this minute, Jim, but thar wuz, an' thar will be.
Half rising from his chair, he leant forward with hot face and burning eyes, and cried: "Sit doon, James Moore! Hoo daur ye stan' there like an honest man, ye whitewashed sepulchre? Sit doon, I say, or" threateningly "wad ye hae me come to ye?" At that the Dalesmen laughed uproariously, and even the Master's grim face relaxed. But the squire's voice rang out sharp and stern.
"I doesn't care; I's willin'," replied Tidy, good-naturedly. "What's de matter wid yer? Been sick?" proceeded France, with a roguish twinkle of the eye. "Specs you's had measles or 'sumption, yer's pale as deaf; and yer hair, laws, sakes, it'll a'most stan' alone! de kind's all done gone out of it." "Never had much," said Tidy, laughing.
I thought I'd better quit them parts; but aunt she showed me her will all done complete, 'sceptin' the fust name er the legatee. 'There, sez she, 'it all depends on yeou, whether that place is took by Hiram or Josiah. It's easy done, an' so it's goan tew stan' till the last minnit. That riled me consid'able, an' I streaked off tew May Jane Simlin's.
Stan was fascinated by the plants and animals Domber kept there. Domber laughed softly. "I experiment much," he said. Then he added, "I have done much with poison gas as well as with rare drugs." "You plan to use poison gas?" Stan asked. "If our plans work out well, yes," Domber said frankly.
"Of course I'd club him over the head with a salt fish twice a day under ord'nary circumstances," Cephas confided to his father with a valiant air that he never wore in Deacon Baxter's presence; "but I've got a reason, known to nobody but myself, for wantin' to stan' well with the old man for a spell longer.
"Aye, aanything in th' world." "Ye won't glunch nor ask questions?" "Not a question." "Shut yer eyes an' stan' close t' th' table." I obeyed. She put into each hand a smooth stick with which Jamie had smoothed the soles of shoes. "Jist for th' now these are the handles of a plow. Keep yer eyes shut tight. Ye've seen a maan plowin' a field?" "Aye." "Think that ye see a long, long field.
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