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"And I ain't seen you now, aunt, since the twenty-eighth of September, but I 've thought of you a great deal, and looked forward to comin' more'n usual," she ended, with an affectionate glance at the pleased old face by the window. "I 've been wantin' to see you, dear, and wonderin' how you was gettin' on," said Aunt Cynthy kindly.

If I go to Lancaster and buy me a whole plate of ice-cream it kinda bothers me. I keep wonderin' what Jonas'd think, for he used to say that half a plate of cream's enough for any woman. But mebbe it was to be that I married Jonas instead of Martin Landis. Martin is a good man but all them children my goodness! I guess I got it good alone in my little house long side of Mrs.

"Why," sez Dick, "you ain't makin' two percent profit, an' I was just wonderin' what you stayed here for if it wasn't for somethin' else beside the filthy looger." Jabez, he jumps to his feet an' goes all through it again, tellin' all he has took in an' all he has paid out; while Dick kept attendin' to his pots an' pans the same as if he was stone deaf.

"Why, I expect there's a way," drawled the rider, fixing Masten with a steady eye; "I've been wonderin' why you didn't mention it before." "Oh Lord!" said Masten to the girl, his disgust making his voice husky, "can you imagine such stupidity?" But the girl did not answer; she had seen a glint in the rider's eyes while he had been looking at Masten which had made her draw a deep breath.

"Afternoon, Scattergood," he said, in a manner which he endeavored to make as like his employer's as possible. "Afternoon, Pliny. Successful trip, Pliny? Plenty of passengers? Eh? Any news down the valley?" "Done middlin' well. Hain't much news, 'ceptin' that young Widder Conroy down to Tupper Falls died of somethin' the matter with her stummick and folks is wonderin' what'll become of her baby."

'Now for the next, says I. Philp's a greedy fellow: he stuck there lookin' so hard at the weighin'-scoop, wonderin' how much overplush he'd get this go, he didn' see me twitch the tailmost sack out o' the line wi' th' end o' my crutch, nor Bill pick it up casual as he came along an' toss it away into the corner.

I liket that wean, wife liket her maybe owre weel; an' my heart has been sair for her mony a time, wonderin' what has come o' her!" Mrs. Maitland lifted a corner of her rough apron and wiped her eyes, as she cried softly at hearing her husband thus speak of their missing daughter. "Do you think she'll be living, Matthew?" she asked looking through her tears at her husband anxiously.

Michael's to Liverpool with a cargo of oranges, and from Liverpool around to Troy in charge of a tug. "I'm wonderin' what 'twill feel like when it comes to my turn," mused his mate Mr Tregaskis, likewise pensively contemplating the Hannah Hoo. "Not to be sure, sir, as I'd compare the two cases; me bein' a married man, and you as they say with the ship for wife all these years, and children too."

Bob sat up. "Why, I never heard there was anything the matter with yore heart. If there is, you hadn't ought to be ridin' these crazy colts you do." "Nothin' the matter with my heart. It's yore's I'm worryin' about." Bob flushed, but said nothing. "I'm wonderin' how long you're aimin' to let that bully puss fellow Walker run over you." "What can I do?" Bob did not look at his companion.

If there is anything that I can tell you." "I was wonderin' who was payin' for this here private room and reg'lar nurse. I been sizin' up things and folks like me don't get such fancy trimmin's without payin'." "Why it was your your father." Pete sat up quickly. "My father! I ain't got no father. I I reckon somebody got things twisted."