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"I've heard, and I know it for a fact, that money grows in the pockets of the rich. Why not in the pockets of the poor as well? Why should you be su'prised at wot 'appens every day?" "Had you any money of your own about you at the time?" "Where could the like of me get money? asking pardon for making so bold as to catechise your ladyship."
Mis' Bates and Mis' Moran, with one impulse, ran to the side door, and Mis' Winslow followed. "Emily," said Mis' Moran, "put on your hood this minute." "Gussie," said Mis' Bates, "put on your cap this instant second. What you got it off for? And little Emily doing as you do I'm su'prised at you."
"I won't have those poor people made unhappy any longer, or separated from their little boy. Why, it's dreadful, Kaliko, an' I'm su'prised at you. You must be more wicked than I thought you were." "I can't do it, Dorothy," said the Nome King, almost weeping with despair. "I promised King Gos I'd keep them captives. You wouldn't ask me to break my promise, would you?"
I'll git de drawin's early dis evenin', an' go ma'chin' home wif a new silk fu' huh, an' money besides. I do' want my wife waihin' no white folks' secon'-han' clothes nohow. My, but won't she be su'prised an' tickled. I kin jes' see huh now. Oh, mistah policy-sha'k, I got you now. I been layin' fu' you fu' a long time, but you's my meat at las'." He marched into the policy shop like a conqueror.
I shouldn't be su'prised if she's mighty countrified, for the farm is several miles from a railroad, and the people she lives with don't think of anything but work, yeah in and yeah out." They had reached the post-office by this time, and Rob held out his hand for the letters. "I'll put them in for you," he said.
"That's the best cider-cellar I know of," said 'Lias Mullins, "and Uncle Joe allus had the best bar'ls; but they wa'n't used last year, an I'm turrible 'fraid they've gone musty." "Shouldn't be su'prised," agreed old Nat, mournfully. "An' it's a great pity." "Bet you a quarter apiece they're as sweet as ever," proposed Chairman Westbury.
He pinched out the blaze of his match, as usual, and then spat upon it for added safety before throwing it away. "If this heat doesn't let up," he remarked, "the grass is going to blaze up from sunburn." "It won't need to, if you ask me. I wouldn't be su'prised to see this hull range afire any time. Between you an' me, Kenneth, them Double Diamond fellers ain't watching it as close as they might.
"'Well, I didn't mean it that way, s'I, reticent an' said no more, with the exception of what I'd rilly meant. "'Why under the canopy, I ask' him, for a hint, 'don't you take the Sum Merriman store, an' run it, an' live on your feet? I ain't any patience with a man, s'I, 'that lives on his toes. Stomp some, why don't you, an' buy that store? "An' his answer su'prised me.
When I got home with it, Eb was settin' on the front stoop with Elspie, an' when he heard about the wrist, he come in an' done the lightin' up. An' Elspie, she fair su'prised me. "'Where do you keep your rags? s'she, brisk. "'In that flour chest I don't use, I says, 'in the shed.
"Nex' day I was gettin' ready for Sum Merriman's funeral, it was to be at one o'clock, when Elspie come in my room, sort o' shyin' up to me gentle. "'Miss Cally, 's'she, 'do you think the mourners'd take it wrong if I's to go to the funeral? "'Why, no, Elspie, I says, su'prised; 'only what do you want to go for? I ask' her. "'Oh, I donno, s'she.
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