a-withdrawin

Updated: May 24, 2025

But well he might make of her he will be doin' dretful well to git Arvilly; she's a good worker and calculator, and her principles are like brass and iron for soundness; and she's real good-lookin', too, now looks 'leven years younger, or ten and a half, anyway. But jest as Arvilly and I wuz a-withdrawin' ourselves from each other, I sez, "Arvilly, have you been to the Fair Sundays?"

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair