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Updated: May 2, 2025
The other day when I said that about old Welborne a-sendin' you a bunch o' flowers to decorate Dick's grave I wasn't actually thinkin' about you as much as I was about Welborne an' his close-fisted ways.
"Oh, Peter!" exclaimed the old man, shaking his head, "I wonders at ye; arter me a-thinkin' an' a-thinkin', an' a-plannin' an' a-plannin' all these months arter me a-sendin' Black Jarge about 'is business " "Ancient, what do you mean?" "Why, didn't I out an' tell un as you was sweet on Prue " "Did you tell him that?" I cried.
'For mo' air the children of the desolate' don't ye know Scripter says? than of them that has many. Lord love ye, honey, girl, you'll be mother to a minny and a minny. They air a-comin'; the Lord's a-sendin' 'em. W'y, honey, you and John will have children gathered around you " The one cry broke forth from Cornelia which she ever uttered through all her long grief of childlessness: "Oh, but, Dr.
The panacea she applied to all ailments, moral or physical, was a counter-irritant. "Mis' Squeerington!" she ventured finally. "I hope you ain't fergot that it's Saturday mornin' an' you'd orter row the grocery man. He's a cortion, that's what he is, a-sendin' us Mis' Ivy's ribs, an' Mis' Logan's liver. It ain't a decent way to treat a old customer, an' he orter be told so.
Pickwick will have the goodness to see that nobody comes up the lane, while I watch at the other end of the garden. Goodness gracious, what's that? 'That 'ere blessed lantern 'ull be the death on us all, exclaimed Sam peevishly. 'Take care wot you're a-doin' on, sir; you're a-sendin' a blaze o' light, right into the back parlour winder. 'Dear me! said Mr.
Nothin' else never gev 'er no high-strikes only talkin' to 'er about 'er father. An' as to me a-sendin' 'er a-beggin', I tell you she liked beggin'. I gev her baskets to sell, an' flowers to sell, an' yet she would beg. I tell you she liked beggin'. Some gals does.
"Some blamed fool uncle at home he's got no parents, I understand keeps a-sendin' him money. Consequently, every remittance he cuts things loose, with everyone in sight a-helpin' him." "What a shame!" cried Shock. "He has a nice face. I just like to look at him." "That's right!" answered Ike, with no waning of his enthusiasm. "He's white but he's soft. Makes me so blank mad!
One day, the last that he saw them together, they seemed to be, each in a way different from the other, under a great strain. He was haggard, woebegone, nervous; she high-strung, resolute, with "eyes that shone like lamps," as said the observer. "She's a-sendin' him 'way to lew-ard," thought he.
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