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But now, NOW, in the face of the new suspicions that had become convictions by the afternoon's umbrella-sending Nancy only welcomed the question with open arms. She was sure that, with a clean conscience to-day, she could set the love-hungry little girl's heart at rest. "Likes ter have ye here? Would she miss ye if ye wa'n't here?" cried Nancy, indignantly.
Week after week passes without visible change till we hear no more of haste, but owner and neighbors grow impatient, and can't for their lives see why that house wa'n't done weeks and weeks ago! In point of fact, when it appeared almost wholly built, it was hardly begun. The work thus far had been of the sort that can be quickly executed, much of it done by machinery.
I was dreamin' of a friend of mine when I come to and saw" Pete hesitated, sat up and yawned again "another friend that I wa'n't dreamin' about," he concluded. "What makes you think I'm your friend?" queried The Spider. "Oh, hell, I dunno," said Pete, rubbing the back of his head and grinning boyishly. "But there's no law ag'in' my feelin' that way, is there? Doggone it, I'm plumb empty!
I hain't seen him look so longfaced since since he was paid up on a sartin note I knows of, jest as he was smackin' his lips over a nice fat farm that was comin' to him! "Well, I was that plum puzzled that I meant ter find out why Streeter was takin' sech notice, if I hung fur it. So I set to on a little detective work of my own, knowin', of course, that 't wa'n't no use askin' of him himself.
Ho! ho! she had no less'n three of 'em, and they all shook different ways. Ho! ho! ho! If I'd been in the habit of wearin' false hair or teeth or anything that wa'n't growed to or buttoned on me I'd never have risked a trip in one of those omnibuses. "So when the police officer prescribed one for me this v'yage, I was some dubious.
Nowdays the's a good many things I'd sooner have than custard pie, though," he said with a wink, "I gen'ally do eat two pieces jest to please Polly." John laughed. "What was the other thing?" he asked. "Other thing I once bought?" queried David. "Oh, yes, it was the fust hoss I ever owned. I give fifteen dollars fer him, an' if he wa'n't a dandy you needn't pay me a cent.
And Gingerford, touched with genuine emotion, shook his head, sadly. "Yes, Sir, your reward," repeated the old woman, tenderly arranging the sheet over the still breast, and still, folded hands of the corpse. "For makin' his last days happy, for makin' his last minutes happy, I may say. That 'ere smile was for you, Sir. You was kinder to him 'n folks in gin'ral. He wa'n't used to 't.
Betsey Skiles, now, she feels to turn her hand to nursin' an' I've knowed her to go miles in the dead of Winter to set up with a stranger that had some disease she wa'n't familiar with. Dogs would bring others an' only scare a few. Just you leave it all to me. There ain't never no use in borrerin' trouble an' givin' up your peace of mind as security, 'cause you don't never get the security back.
"If it wa'n't for her bein' Miss Jaynes's sister," said she, one day, to Cornelia, who had been praising her friend, "if it wa'n't for that one thing, I should like her remarkable well, a good deal more'n common." "Pray, what have you got such a spite against the Jayneses for?" asked Cornelia. "What do you mean by askin' such a question as that, Cornele?" said Tira, in a tone of stern reproof.
I laughed right out. She had n't taken no time to see 'Liza Jane; she wa'n't 'suagin' no grief for nobody till she 'd seen the circus. 'There, says I, 'I do like to have anybody keep their young feelin's!" "Mis' Price come over to see our folks before breakfast," said John York.
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