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"My suz! We've never had such a storm sence I can remember, an' Katy in nothin' but ducks! Eunice has wrote right away, soon's she made up her mind to keep her, to that stepmother o' hers to take an' buy the child some good strong shoes an' dark warm dresses, fit for a girl to wear in a country village.
"Well, there, Moses Jones! How many times have you jeered an' gibed at me for believin' in 'tramps'? Wasn't 'none, was there? Well, there is. I've seen him. He he chased me! All the way from the Mansion till I got clean to the post-office an' then then he he cut for the woods! Oh, my suz! Be I dreamin' or awake?"
Aunt Sally immediately went and closed the door and locked it; then fastened the windows and pulled the shades over them. At which a shout arose that the old lady heeded not a whit. She clasped her hands over her breast and her round face turned pale, as she whispered shrilly enough for all to hear: "We're undone! We're all undone! We're a passel of fools and and Oh, suz!"
"O dear suz," said she, one morning, "I'm so glad there happened to be a world, and God made me!" "What, you here, Prudy?" said grandma Parlin. "What made you get up so early?" "O, the flies waked me, I s'pose. I was dreaming about my pignig. I thought I had it on top o' the trees."
Maybe I won't have to tell her, unless she asks me. But I know it. And, pray, what am I to do? Of course, I can act like Marie here all right, if that is what folks want. They're all Mary. That's all I brought. Oh, dear suz me! Why couldn't Father and Mother have been just the common live-happy-ever-after kind, or else found out before they married that they were unlikes? September.
So it ain't no favor on my part, and you can take out your board in tendin' baby and putterin' over them little tykes." "I should like it so much! But I forgot my debt to Mrs. Flint; perhaps she won't let me go," said Christie, with an anxious cloud coming over her brightening face. "Merciful, suz! don't you be worried about her.
And when Katharine had exclaimed in amazement, had replied: "My suz! That's nothin' to what some keeps it. Mis' Turner, she's got part her weddin' loaf yet, an' she's been married more years 'an I can exactly recollect; while her own mother has some 'at's twenty-five years old. Fact.
"It, it is a great disappointment, Robert." "Well, well!" replied Mr. Sherwood, perhaps not without some secret relief. "It will all come out right. At least, your cousin hasn't refused his assistance. We shall be established somewhere before he returns from his Mexican trip." "I, I did depend so much upon Adair's good will and advice," signed Momsey. "But, dear me suz!" gasped Nan impatiently.
Then he had a very good dinner, and he stayed all night at the toad family's house and watched the little ones hop some more, and he and the papa toad talked about the weather. Well, in the morning when Uncle Wiggily got up and washed his face and paws, and combed out his whiskers, he suddenly heard all the little toads crying. "Hum! Suz! Dud!" he exclaimed, "some of them must have the toothache."
Men are so wicked, and young girls are full of deceit and so ready to listen to all sorts of artful creturs that take advantage of their ignorance and tender years." She wept once more, this time with sobs that seemed irrepressible. "Dear suz!" said the nurse, "I won't believe no sech thing as wickedness about Myrtle Hazard. You mean she's gone an' run off with some good-for-nothin' man or other?
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