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Aunt Chloe, what have you done with him?" "Showed him into de parlor, mistis, and leff him a-sittin' dar." "What's his name, auntie?" asked Lottie, as the old lady refolded the letter and took off her glasses. "Bromly Egerton; quite romantic, isn't it? Excuse me for a few minutes, dears; I must go and see what he wants."
I war skeery like when she war round; and war given to havin' little hot spells and then chills, and I said, 'I know it's ther blasted malarier. "So I took k'neen and juniper tea, and fancied I hed night sweats jest the cussedest time, Jim, thet yo' ever seen. "One day when I war a-sittin' in ther house and a-mopin', Aunt Sue cum in and looked hard at me, and says she: 'Mr.
"The kiss of peace," says the shepherd; and then he kissed the women all round, and ven he'd done, the man vith the red nose began. I was just a-thinkin' whether I hadn't better begin too 'specially as there was a wery nice lady a-sittin' next me ven in comes the tea, and your mother-in-law, as had been makin' the kettle bile downstairs. At it they went, tooth and nail.
I went into Naomi's room this morning, and there the old man was a-sittin' by her bed, and he had a pair of her shoes in his hand, you know what a leetle bit of a foot she had. I never saw nothin' look so kind o' solitary as that poor old man did!"
Druv up to that theer very door as you see theer, in 'er great coach an' four, she did, orders the steps to be lowered, comes tapping into this 'ere very room with 'er little cane, she do, sits down in that theer very chair as you're a-sittin' in, she do, fannin' 'erself with a little fan an' calls for now, what d' ye suppose, sir?" "I haven't the least idea."
Every trace of her sickness vanished as if by magic. The greenish complexion changed to crimson, and the woebegone tones to those of firm resolution, as she exclaimed "Ned Jarring, if you ever again dare to take liberties with me, I'll tell my 'usband, I will; an' as sure as you're a-sittin' on that seat 'e'll twist you up, turn you outside in, an' fling you overboard!"
"I allus had a likin' for kings, bein' as they're summat unusual. Please 'scuse me for a-sittin' on your royal toes, not knowin' as your toes were there." "I won't excuse you!" roared the Boolooroo. "But I'll punish you. You may depend upon that." "Seems to me," said Trot, "you're actin' rather imperlite to strangers. If anyone comes to our country to visit us, we always treat 'em decent."
'Goes and gets up a grand tea drinkin' for a feller they calls their shepherd, said Mr. Weller. 'I was a-standing starin' in at the pictur shop down at our place, when I sees a little bill about it; "tickets half-a-crown. All applications to be made to the committee. Secretary, Mrs. Weller"; and when I got home there was the committee a-sittin' in our back parlour.
Bowlin', says I, 'it'll just be the ruin of you an' the death of me if you keep on makin' a picter of yourself like that lonely Indian a-sittin' on a pinnacle in the jographys, watchin' the inroads of civilization, with a locomotive an' a cog-wheel in front, an' the buffalo an' the grisly a-disappearin' in the distance.
And Ben sat back in his chair to allow the full magnitude of this fact to have its full weight with Tommy. For once Tommy was without reply, for anything savouring of criticism of Miss Margaret or her opinions was impossible to him. "An' what's more," continued Ben, "this 'ere hinstitution in which we're a-sittin' this hour wouldn't be 'ere but fer that same preacher an' them that backs him up.
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