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You'd oughter heard Elder Weekses remarks; they was splendid. We ain't hed better remarks to any fun'ral here for years. I shouldn't 'a' suspicioned he was preachin' 'bout Lyddy, though. Our minister's sick abed, you know, 'n' warn't able to conduct the ex'cises. Si thinks he went to bed a-purpose, but I wouldn't hev it repeated; so David got Elder Weeks from Moderation.
He ate his tea in silence, and after he had finished lit his pipe and sat up in bed smoking. "Penny for your thoughts," said his wife. "I'm going out," said Mr. Scutts, in a voice that defied opposition. "I'm going to 'ave a walk, and when I'm far enough away I'm going to 'ave one or two drinks. I believe this fog is sent a-purpose to save my life." Mrs.
Here I've been face to face with my own father's brother's son, and I've put out my hand to him, and he's turned away short and pretended as he didn't know me and went off! And they tells me at his lodgin', for I follered him a-purpose to find him out, that he calls hisself a Frenchman, and says as how his name which it is Stumps, and always has been is Count Sikativ de Cortray!"
"Why, I thought I'd like to go into your room and have a good look round." "But you have no right to do that sort of thing. It is intolerably mean of you. You had no right to go into my bedroom." "I often does what I has no right to do," said Penelope, by no means abashed. "I went in a-purpose 'cos you didn't tell me what you wished to tell me once, and I was burning to know.
As we came to a road which wound off to the south toward where there was a settlement of Hoosiers who had made a trail to the Wade place, I turned off and followed it, knowing that when I got to the Hoosier settlement, I should find a road into the Centre. It was a mistake made a-purpose, done on that instinct which protects the man who feels that he may be trailed.
You see, when a green city chap comes to the Old Home House and the land knows there's freaks enough do come we always try to make things pleasant for him, and the last thing we'd think of was making him a show afore folks. So we couldn't b'lieve even now 'twas done a-purpose. But we was suspicious, a little.
"Well, our mother!" he answered. "I never meant tr'a done it an' it was on'y an old indirrubber collar as was torn a'ready." "Next time," said his mother, "YOU be more careful. I shouldn't like it if you came home with your collar torn off." "I don't care, our mother; I never did it a-purpose." The boy was rather miserable at being reprimanded. "No well, you be more careful."
Cecil tried vainly to argue with him; all his reasonings fell like hailstones on a cuirass, and made no more impression; he was resolute. "But listen to one thing," he urged at last. "Can you not see how you pain me by this self-sacrifice? "Do you sir? There ain't the least cause for it, then," returned Rake sturdily. "Lord bless you, sir; why this life's made a-purpose for me!
Wot I take to is smooth-faced young chaps." "Don't take any stock in her nonsense," the Fraction King warned, "She just does it a-purpose to get me mad." "Now then!" she commanded, sharply. "Step up to your licker! 'Ere's 'ow!" "What'll it be?" cried Blanche from the stove. The elevated mugs wavered and halted. "The Queen, Gawd bless 'er!" the Virgin toasted promptly. "And Bill!"
Only when the storekeeper eagerly insisted, "What hev Jonas seen? what war he gin ter view?" did Old Daddy bring the fore legs of the chair down with a thump, lean forward, and mysteriously pipe out like a superannuated cricket, "My son, my son hev seen a harnt, what riz up over the bluff a-purpose!" "Whar 'bouts?" "When?" "Waal, sir!" arose in varied clamors.
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