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Winship are just as lovely and cordial to you as they are to everybody else, and the boys do not feel well enough acquainted with you to "frolic" with you as they do with us. 'It isn't so, but you are not sensitive enough to see it; and I should never have been poisoned if it hadn't been for you! 'Oh, go on, do! said Polly, beginning to lose her self-control, which was never very great.
It was more as if she had recently read a story full of pathos, whose chief characters were named Hunkie and Dinney, and whose background was a dreary street. She would tell the story to the District Nurse and perhaps evoke a sequel to it from her. "Dear Miss Winship: My uncle and aunt spirited me away the next day, and here I am in this 'Undiscovered Country'! Do you mind if I write you?
Their eyes never left her face. "Are they takin' your things, Sis?" asked Mr. Winship. Her feverish glance answered him. "What's to pay?" he inquired. "Want to keep the stuff, Boss?" asked the head packer. "Yes," I said, seeing her distress, and resolving desperately to find the means, somehow. "It ain't none o' your look-out," interposed Mr. Winship.
Satisfying to the appetite was the dinner which landlord Winship set before a dozen British officers, roast beef, dish gravy, mealy potatoes, plum-pudding, mince pie, crackers and cheese, prime old port, and brandy distilled from the grapes of Bordeaux.
I pulled off a big rodér for 'em and they sold a lot of cattle tryin' to patch things up the best they could, but jest as everythin' was lovely the drouth struck 'em all in a heap, and when the Widde' Winship got the estate settled up she didn't have nothin' much left but cows and good will.
"This isn't can't be not our Helen Winship oh, it's some message from her some " Her voice died away in incoherent mutterings. She drew me into a big hall like a sitting room behind the small parlour. "Come into the light, child, whoever you are. I want to look at you," she said.
'Luby Winship, the anjulls gaved me this string fur ter make an offul splendid tight harness for you, little Luby; and you can drag big heavy stones. Won't that be nice? Lubin looked doubtful, and wagged his tail dissentingly, as much as to say that his ideas of angel ministrations were a trifle different. But there was no end to the string! How very, very curious!
But this is a different matter." "I saw Miss Winship yesterday." "You will not then accuse me of overstatement?" "She is indeed beautiful." The restraint with which I spoke evidently puzzled him. He continued to look at me curiously, as he said slowly: "From a young man I should have expected more enthusiasm.
"Something has happened!" cried Miss Winship, hurrying her footsteps. "I'm afraid someone is hurt." But then, the District Nurse was "always afraid" in that locality. There were so many pitfalls where accidents could happen. As they drew near a boy ran from the crowd toward them. It was Dinney. "What is it, Dinney? Quick!" asked the nurse. "Sal went over the stairs the railing broke.
"Sho, Sis!" said Mr. Winship; "don't my beard hide it? Declare I clean forgot." Soon Helen returned to pin a flower at my button-hole. "Where can Cadge be?" she cried gaily; but her hands shook and she dropped the rose. "Do you suppose she's interviewing a lunatic asylum?" What had changed her voice and burned fever spots in her cheeks? I wasn't so indifferent as I had seemed to Kitty's news.
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