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She had been a-hintin' to him dretful strong to that effect. She wanted a parmetty, or a balzereen, or a circassien, which wuz in voge in her young days. But I wuz in hopes he would get her a cashmere, and told him so, plain. But I couldn't get him to tell what the surprise wuz. He only sez, sez he: "I am goin' to make her a happy surprise."
"What'd he got to say for hisself, then?" she asked. "'A woman like that can allust make time, the old doctor he say. 'Tell her to make time to help this here pore sufferin' woman. I'm a-sayin' it as he said it, Dinah. I ain't a-hintin' of it myself, bor."
"Some folks was a-hintin'," pursued the old fellow, speaking slowly, "as, maybe, that young man hadn't married her; but I knowed better then that, because, even if Phrony warn't a good girl, which she is, though she ain't got much sense, he knowed me. They ain't none of 'em ever intimated that to me," he added explanatorily. Keith was glad that he had not intimated it.
He had me all wore out all evening long a-hintin' and sniffin' and wearin' that kind of a high-smile 'cause they made so much fuss over you. And then when we got clear in town he come out with it! Said you was too quiet to suit HIM said he couldn't see nothin' TO you! 'Well, I says to myself, 'jest let him go on, jest one more, I says, 'then he gits it. And he did.
She had been a-hintin' to him dretful strong to that effect. She wanted a parmetty, or a balzereen, or a circassien, which wuz in voge in her young days. But I wuz in hopes he would get her a cashmere, and told him so, plain. But I couldn't get him to tell what the surprise wuz. He only sez, sez he: "I am goin' to make her a happy surprise."
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