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"I heard 'em talk about a little winder and a shed, and when they'd gone I found it and come in. The glass was broke, and I only pulled the nail out. I haven't done a mite of harm sleepin' here two nights. I was so tuckered out I couldn't go on nohow, though I tried a-Sunday." "And came back again?
I told him a-Sunday I didn't believe he'd mind if I died the next day, an' all he said was: 'Why don't you try it an' see, Lyddy? He thinks that's humorous." "I know; that's the way Bartholomew talks; I guess they all do. You can see the bridge better 'n I can, Lyddy; has Mark Wilson drove over sence you've been settin' there?
He put ten dollars in the contribution plate a-Sunday, and paid the minister ten more next day for marryin' him to Nancy; so the Peabody luck has turned at last!" which, as a matter of fact, it had. "And all the time," said the chairman of the carpet committee to the treasurer of the Dorcas Society "all the time, little as she realized it, Nancy was laying the carpet in her own pew.
"How kind o' providential it happened about his getting that property; he'll be a rich man now; and Mara, you'll come to grandeur, won't you? Well, I don't know anybody deserves it more, I r'ally don't. Mis' Badger was a-sayin' so a-Sunday, and Cap'n Kittridge and all on 'em. I s'pose though we've got to lose you, you'll be goin' off to Boston, or New York, or somewhere."
"Well, I hope Providence won't be in a way with me for my doings." said Joseph, again sitting down. "I've been troubled with weak moments lately, 'tis true. I've been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to church a-Sunday, and I dropped a curse or two yesterday; so I don't want to go too far for my safety. Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand."
I'm going to Adam's." Mrs. Bates lifted her gaunt form to very close six feet of height, looking narrowly at her daughter. "Well, what the nation are you going to Adam's at this time a-Sunday for?" she demanded.
''A did, truly, said Gad Weedy, at the same time taking an apple from the hopper of the mill, eating a piece, and flinging back the remainder to be ground up for cider. 'He went to church a-Sunday, said the clerk again. ''A did. 'And she kept her eye upon en all the service, her face flickeren between red and white, but never stoppen at either. Mr. Springrove nodded, and went to the press.
He put ten dollars in the contribution plate a-Sunday, and paid the minister ten more next day for marryin' him to Nancy; so the Peabody luck has turned at last!" which as a matter of fact, it had. "And all the time," said the chairman of the carpet committee to the treasurer of the Dorcas Society "all the time, little as she realized it, Nancy was laying the carpet in her own pew.
"Well, I hope Providence won't be in a way with me for my doings," said Joseph, again sitting down. "I've been troubled with weak moments lately, 'tis true. I've been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to church a-Sunday, and I dropped a curse or two yesterday; so I don't want to go too far for my safety. Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand."
Adams," said Miss Roxy, "you needn't worry about keepin' that secret, 'cause that ar was all talked over atween meetin's a-Sunday noon; for Mis' Kittridge she used to know his aunt Jerushy, her that married Solomon Peters, and Mis' Captain Badger she says that he has a very good property, and is a professor in the Old South church in Boston." "Dear me," said Miss Emily, "how things do get about!"
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