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And what wuz rooted up and washed away by them tears I don't know, and I don't s'pose anybody duz.
So he camped down before it, as you may say, for life that is, he thought so; but Providence wuz a-watchin' over him, and his thoughtful, unselfish kindness to a stranger, or strangers, wuz to be rewarded with the prize of love and bliss. Wall, the World's Fair wuz, I spoze, looked on by many a pair of glad eyes. Hearts that throbbed high with happiness beat on through them majestic rooms.
They forgot everything that had gone by in their worship, and I don't know but I ort to. Mebby I had. I shouldn't wonder a mite if I had. But all the while, all through the agony and the labor, and when too wearied he lay down the pen, he wuz on duty.
'Nen the dogs begin to bark an' he thought mebby it wuz Mr. Lapelle, so he say, you mustn't get Mr. Lapelle mixed up in this. He " "I know all about Mr. Lapelle, Moll," interrupted the older woman. The girl gave her a sharp, almost hostile look. "Then you hain't goin' to let him have your girl, air you?" Mrs. Gwyn shook her head. "No, Moll, I am not," she said.
Finally, jest as the three men come hurryin' back into the room to rescue or die with us I spoze, the boilin' water gin a louder, angrier roar, and riz up out of the tank three feet into the air and poured and steamed and deluged all over the floor. Well wuz it I took up the carpet.
En sho' 'nough dar wuz Marse Dan lyin' unner a pine log dat Marse Bland hed roll up ter 'im ter keep de Yankees f'om hittin' 'im; en w'en he ketch sight er me he des blink his eyes fur a minute en laugh right peart. "'Wat dat you got on yo' haid, Big Abel? he sez." "Big Abel's a hero, there's no mistake," put in Dan, delighted.
"What have you here, my lad?" "Me pie," responds he, with an innocent look; "I wuz scart it would get stole." A little fellow who has been eying one of the visitors attentively takes his knife out of his mouth, and points it at him with conviction. "I know you," he pipes. "You're a p'lice commissioner. I seen yer picter in the papers. You're Teddy Roosevelt!"
Would the gloom ever be lifted from his beloved liniment? So my heart questioned itself as we helped ourselves out of the Democrat, Ury tendin' to the trunks. It wuz a Monday mornin', for I felt that I wanted to tackle this job jest as I would a three weeks' washin', the first day of the week.
Do you spoze that if women formed half the committee of selection which they should since it wuz a woman's gift that made such a place possible do you spoze that if she had an equal voice with men, the names of noble wimmen would be tucked away in a remote unroofed corner?
I spoze Dorothy, though she didn't tell me so, for fear it would make me oneasy and nervious, but I spoze she wuz afraid that some bold thief might rob me of that valuable jewel; she knowed that cameo pin fell onto me from Mother Smith and fell onto her from her ma. This rim of memory sot it round and rendered it valuable aside from its intrinsic worth, which wuz great.
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