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He's the workingest man in this here county, ba thundas! What! Jim he don't sit 'round like you fellers down on th' creek an' wait fer pawpaws to git ripe, so he can git a square meal, ba thundas!" The bold mountaineer wilted. Uncle Ike proceeded with the business of his office. "Here's Sallie Rhodes done writ her maw a card from th' Corners. Sallie's been a visitin' her paw's folks.
It's some stuck-up notion of hers this thing of them not visitin' their neighbours." Susan looked up at him indulgently. "You won't refuse to be good friends with her for my sake, Nate. She was as glad to see me as a little child." "Why don't she come t' see you then?" Nathan asked sternly, able only to see the one point. "I don't exactly know, Nate.
There he was, though, out on that mussy rock; and here she was, visitin' in New York, leadin' the giddy life, and gettin' her gowns ready for the Horse Show. If Millie had passed out the heartaches casual along her former trails, here was where she gets at least one of 'em back on the rebound.
"Then the Rummage Sale come on an' he met Delia. Delia was eighteen an' just back from visitin' in the City, with her veil a new way, an' I never see prettier.
S'pose now that, without so much as a visitin' card, I nosed in on you with 'So that's your poor dear husban's portrait, that you nagged to his grave and a speakin' image of him too, afore he took to the drink as the better way An' what little lux'ries might you have cookin' in the apparatus, such as a barren woman might reas'nably afford?
There was Ruth Parlet, that must be always a visitin' and goin' well, I won't say that there wasn't a time when I wished for the chance." Justice always won the day in such minor questions as this. Ruth Parlet's name started the usual thoughts, but somehow or other Mercy could not find it in her heart to be as harsh as usual. She remembered one thing after another about their girlhood together.
Well, I'll find out afore I sleep, or my name ain't Meg-Laundress, an' I say it. Guess Jane'll open her eyes when I up an' tells her how one them grand folks she sees crossin' the bridge so constant has got astray in the Lane an' come a visitin', actilly a visitin', one our own folks. But then, I always knowed, we Elbowers was a touch above some, an' now she'll know it, too.
"'Twere th' hardest thing I ever done, tellin' she, an' 'twere all I could do t' keep from breakin' down myself. I 'most cried, I were feelin so bad for un. "Douglas were there an' Bessie were visitin' th' sick maid, which were a blessin', fer Richard were away on his trail.
"If you include me on that cannibal's visitin' list, and go to contradictin' me agin, I'll " "Mac," interrupted Mr. Gibney angrily, "control yourself. It's agin the rules to have rag-chewin' and backbitin' on the Maggie II. Remember our motto: 'All for one and one for all' " "Here comes that sneakin' bushy-headed murderer back to the vessel," interrupted McGuffey.
The old woman drew herself up proudly and replied with freezing politeness: "I beg yo' pardon, sah but I was not awares that I had any nephew in the mill, or was related to anybody in here, sah. I hav'nt my visitin' cyard with me, but if I had 'em heah you'd find my entitlements, on readin', was somethin' lak this: Miss Maria Conway, of Zion!" Kingsley flushed, rebuked.
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