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She was to sail for Liverpool and Keziah was to be a passenger. "I can't hardly wait to get to sea," went on Nat. "Think of it! No more lonesome meals in the cabin, thinkin' about you and about home. No, sir! you and home'll be right aboard with me. Think of the fun we'll have in the foreign ports. London, and you and me goin' sightseein' through it!
Say, how long do you s'pose it'll take a man to get well when one leg is knocked endways with a bullet plum through the bone of it?" "It'll be quite a bit, I'm thinkin' too long for you to stay in Buffalo Meadows at this time of the year. Two months ought to do it, eh, Parsons?" "Well, yes; he won't get 'round any quicker than that."
"Hannah's a good soul, I thank her kindly. Set down, Aileen, set down." "I'm afraid you're too tired to have company to-night, Uncle Jo." "Lord, no you ain't comp'ny, Aileen, an' I ain't never too tired to have your comp'ny either." She smiled and took her seat on the lower step, at his feet. "Jest thinkin' of you, Aileen " "Me, Uncle Jo? What put me into your head?"
"Singular," said John thoughtfully. "Yes, sir," said David. "Wa'al, it come along to the second spring, 'bout the first of May. She'd ben more like folks fer about a week mebbe 'n she had fer a long spell, an' I begun to chirk up some. I don't remember jest how I got the idee, but f'm somethin' she let drop I gathered that she was thinkin' of havin' a new bunnit.
I'll admit it 'pears strange to me, too, but who are you an' me, Jim Hart, to question the ways of foreign countries, thousands o' miles on the other side o' the sea?" "They've found the boat," said Tom Ross, "an' that's enough!" "Is it really true?" asked Mrs. Newton. "It is," replied Shif'less Sol, "an' Henry an' Paul are in it, waitin' fur us. We're thinkin', Mrs.
He's the only Britisher aboard who wouldn't cut and run in a minute; besides he's got a girl at Porto Grande." "And that fellow Anderson who was with Estada?" "The lowest kind of a Swede cur he'll do more dirt than a Portugee. I know what yer thinkin' 'bout. I had them notions too when I fu'st come aboard gettin' all the decent sort tergether, and takin' the vessel.
We didn't plan sleeping in hotels." "All right," he gave in. "I'm game. I was just thinkin' about you." "Then you'd better think I'm game, too," she flashed forgivingly. "And now we'll have to see about getting things for supper." They bought a round steak, potatoes, onions, and a dozen eating apples, then went out from the town to the fringe of trees and brush that advertised a creek.
You must look on the bright side, Mrs. Lathrop, 'n' not twist aroun' like you'd been in bed four weeks 'n' only had two more ahead o' you. The whole six is ahead now, 'n' instid o' wrigglin' 'n' sighin', you'd ought to think how good it is as I'm here to take care o' you. I must say 't, to my order o' thinkin', your leg is goin' to be pretty nigh 's hard on me 's on you.
Martha liked to talk, and the strange child who had lived in India, and been waited upon by "blacks," was novelty enough to attract her. She sat down on the hearth herself without waiting to be asked. "Art tha' thinkin' about that garden yet?" she said. "I knew tha' would. That was just the way with me when I first heard about it." "Why did he hate it?" Mary persisted.
I was thinkin' of Jabez an' myself that mornin', an' wonderin' if age cut so much figger after all. "Do you an' your dad ever talk about your mother any more?" I asked her. "Not much," she said. "When one wants to know all, and one don't want to tell any, the' ain't much satisfaction in talkin' about about even your own mother. Don't you still miss your mother?"
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