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"Oh, he abandoned her, did he?" "Yes went off to the States, and never so much as sent a word to bid her good-bye. It was a cruel shame, it was, for the girl has been a-waiting and a-pining for him ever since. It's my belief that it's fifty years' weeping that blinded her." "She is blind!" cried John, half rising to his feet. "Worse than that," said the fisherman.
It must have been Zeke who did that neat job," exclaimed Stokes, ironically; "he's been a-pining for the soldier business." "No, no; Zeke's above such night scrimmages. He wants to swim the bay and walk right into Boston in broad daylight, so everybody can see him. Come, Zeb, tell how it happened. It was so confounded dark, no one can tell but you."
"Well," said Lionel, "has the white donkey arrived yet?" A contraction of anger, not, however, unmixed with mirth, crossed the man's face. "I wish it would come, sir, and bear her off on't!" was his hearty response. "She's more a fool nor ever over it, a-whining and a-pining all day long, 'cause she ain't at New Jerusalem.
What caused it? that's what I want to know! can't you speak?" harshly demanded the woman, as she flew to her cupboard, seized a vinegar cruet, and began to bathe Ishmael's head and face with its stimulating contents. "Well, Hannah, I couldn't tell exactly; but 'pears to me someone went off in the boat as he was a-pining after." "Who went off in the boat?" asked Hannah impatiently.
You're the doctor's miss, ain't ye? Have a cheer?" Rilla did not see any chair which was not cluttered with something. She remained standing. "Wasn't it very sudden?" "Well, she's been a-pining ever since that worthless Jim lit out for England which I say it's a pity as he ever left. It's my belief she was took for death when she heard the news.
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