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And here comes one of them now. Kitty, step here a minute, please. Miss Deems, my friend, Mr. Slimm." And Miss Myrtle Musgrove was off across the room before Ezra's gasp had fully expanded into the smile with which he greeted Miss Kitty Deems, a buxom lass with freckles and dimples enough to hold her own anywhere.
Some other time," he began to say; then blushing scarlet, he seized her hand, and pressing it, said, fervently, "God bless you!" The second Mrs. Slimm is a wholesome little body, with dimples and freckles, whom Ezra declares "God A'mighty couldn't o' made without thinkin' of Ezra Slimm an' his precize necessities."
He rubbed his hands together and hesitated. "'Bout ez fine a set o' young ladies ez I ever see," he said, with real enthusiasm; "but, tell the truth, I but you've a'ready been so kind but There she is now! That tall, light-complected one in pink " "Why, certainly, Mr. Slimm. If you say so, I'll introduce her. A fine, thorough-going girl, that.
Before he had found need of a word of his own, she had drawn him aside, and was saying: "You see, Mr. Slimm, the only trouble with me is that I am already married." "Married!" gasped Ezra, trying in vain to keep the joy out of his voice. "Married, you you don't mean " "Yes, married to my profession the only husband I shall ever take. But your letter attracted me.
No one but himself and Miss Musgrove ever knew the whole story of his wooing, nor why, when in due season a tiny dimpled Miss Slimm came into the family circle, it was by Ezra's request that she was called Myrtle.
Indeed, it had never occurred to him to doubt his own intuition, until suddenly he heard his own name quite near, and turning quickly, he saw a stout matronly woman of forty years or thereabouts standing beside him, extending her hand. Every unmarried woman is a "young lady" by courtesy south of Mason and Dixon's line. "I knew you as soon as I saw you, Mr. Slimm," she was saying.
Ezra Slimm was a widower of nearly a year, and, as a consequence, was in a state of mind not unusual in like circumstances. True, the said state of mind had not in his case manifested itself in the toilet bloomings, friskiness of demeanor, and protestations of youth renewed which had characterized the first signs of the same in the usual run of Simpkinsville widowers up to date.
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