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'Yes; she said she felt her feet a-gettin cold and I must run. But I don't believe she's no worse. John stood looking down, ruefully. Suddenly the figure in the bed turned. 'John, said a comparatively strong voice which made Bolderfield start, 'John Muster Drew says you'd oughter put it in the bank. You'll be a fool if yer don't, 'ee says.
"The whole of it, Lois and now I'm selling it cheap." The girl laughed aloud, but there were tears in her eyes while she did so. What a day for them both. She was angry almost with him for telling her. "Why, if father ain't a-gettin' on the prophet line he said you would, Alb. So help me rummy, I was that angry with him I couldn't hear myself speak. And now it's all come true.
And everything else was jes as slick and smooth as if she was slidin' off the stocks. She's good-lookin' enough, Sam, but she ain't got no mind, and I didn't fix up that house, and bother myself year in and year out a-gettin' it all right, to take it and give it to a woman what's got no mind.
Depper he can look arter hisself; his time for prayin' ain't, so ter say, come yet. Yours is. I should like to hear a 'Lord help me, now and agin from yer lips, when I tarn ye in the bed. I don't think but what yu'd be the better for it, pore critter. Your time's a-gettin' short, and 'tis best ter go resigned." "I cud go resigned if 'tweren't for Depper," the dying woman made her moan.
And now I am goin' to relate the very singulerist thing that ever happened in Jonesville, or the world although it is eppisodin' to tell on it now, and also a-gettin' ahead of my story, and hitchin', as you may say, my cart in front of my horse. But it has got to be told and I don't know but I may as well tell it now as any time. Mebby you won't believe it.
Trapes I'm leaving, I'll get ready." Obediently the Old Un rose. "Mrs. Trapes is a-gettin' into her bonnet to come along wi' us!" said he, and putting on his hat with a flourish, took his departure. When he was gone, Hermione turned and looked down at Spike, who, meeting her eyes, flinched as from a blow and made no effort to rise from his knees.
They was perched upon the lee side of the roof, and sometimes an eddy of wind would take a feller right slap off his legs, and send him floppin' and rollin' and sprawlin' and screamin' down to the ground, and then he'd make most as much fuss a-gettin' up into line agin. They are very fond of straight, lines is turkeys.
"You just oughter seen the Colonel when the old boat righted herself, and he had climbed up and stood 'longside the Major a-talkin' it over. "Pretty soon he came up to where I was a-gettin' the tackle ready to lower the stone in the hold, and he says: "'Well, you made your word good, Cap'n, but I want to tell you that nobody but an American could a-done it.
He heard plainly enough the commonplace drawl of the woman before him offering him the platitudes of her kind. "You are lookin' real well, Mr. Thorpe," she was saying, "an' I just know Helen will be glad to see you. She had a hull afternoon out to-day and won't be back to tea. Dew set and tell me about what you've been a-doin' and how you're a-gettin' along." "No, thank you, Mrs.
Andrew Jackson an' General Tom Thumb a-walkin' down the path. "'What shall we do? says I. "'Come along, says he. 'We aint a-goin' to stop for them. Get up, all the same. "I tried to get up as he said, but it wasn't so easy for me on account of my not bein' such a high stepper as Jone, an' I was a good while a-gettin' a good footin' on the board. "Mrs.
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