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Updated: June 19, 2025
"'Not fer two hours, at least; and it'll keep me from stayin' too long; if I do, it'll wither away and leave me all forlorn, like Cinderella and her pumpkin coach! she said a-smilin' kind uv to herself in me kitchen mirror, when she put the hat on. 'But I'm not insultin' God's flowers tryin' to pass them off for French ones, Annie, says she.
And once or twice he has got as mad as a hen at her for smilin'. Once, when he came home with a sore thumb he had jest smashed it in the barn door and she stood a-smilin' at him on the door step, there are them that say the Deacon called her a "infernal fool." But I never have believed it. I don't believe he would demean himself so low.
"Then, theah was the herd of peccaries about five miles from wheah they had stahted, sittin' down, resting, a-smilin' at each othah and congratulatin' each othah, I reckon, on the way they had knocked the stuffin' out of that theah ole cyclone fo' good and all.
Wall, even she felt bad and deprested on account of her Deacon's goin' into the buzz saw-mill business. But she didn't say nothin', only wept out at one side, and wiped up every time he came in sight. They say that she hain't never failed once of a-smilin' on the Deacon every time he came home.
Longman loosened Tessibel's arms, and, walking slowly forward, looked down upon his daughter. "I hain't seed before that she were a-smilin'," he said, taking a long breath. "Ye says as how she air happy, Tess?" "Yep; she air with Ben Letts." "I air a-goin' in to tell her ma that Myry air happy," asserted Longman, with relief in his voice. "I thank ye, Tess, for tellin' me that she were.
She thrust out a neat, paper-covered parcel which she had held carefully in her capacious lap all through the ceremony. "Miss Janie ma blessed baby!" she whispered. "I is suttenly glad to see dis here day! Heaven is a-smilin' on yo'. And here is one o' ma birfday cakes yo' liked so mighty well. Mammy Rose done make it for her chile de las' she ever will make yo' now yo' is goin' to foreign paths."
Out through the open windows they floated, and one astonished villages driving by to take the early train caught the exultant strains: "Oh, see dat watermillion a-smilin' fro' de fence, How I wish dat watermillion it was mine. Oh, de white folks must be foolish, Dey need a heap of sense, Or dye'd nebber leave it dar upon de vine!
I've done most everythin' I could, usin' soap-suds and soot waters, an' all them tasty liquids to coax it on. I've sot ther' a-smilin' to see the lovesome buds come along an' open out, an' make the air sweet wi' perfumes an' color an' things. I've sot right ther' an' tho't an' tho't a heap o' tho'ts around that flower, an' felt all crinkly up the back wi' pleasure.
I never thought about his face bein' alive in the wave! But, do you know, it's a real pleasant idee, that of seein' the sea again an' William Henry a-smilin' an' wavin' his arms like he use t' when he was bathin'! I declare it's a real grateful thought. Janet!" "Yes, Susan." "I wish you'd go up int' the Light after you've cleared the settin' room, an' tell Davy good night!
Wall, even she felt bad and deprested on account of her Deacon's goin' into the buzz saw-mill business. But she didn't say nothin', only wept out at one side, and wiped up every time he came in sight. They say that she hain't never failed once of a-smilin' on the Deacon every time he came home.
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