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Yes, seh, Mahstah Majah Ah laid Ah'd brek it grajally an' Ah suttingly did have that lady a-thinkin' ve'y highly of yo' at th' time of yo' entrance, seh, yes, seh!" And so began the time of Miss Caroline among us, one effect the more of Fate's mad trickery. It was my privilege to be more intimately aware of her concerns than was the town at large.
"Better, even, than Ah dared to hope, thank God!" Up and down, over and under, in and out went her needle. "It's such a joy to Henry to have him so." The scissors snipped a thread at the end of a darn, and a new hole displayed its ravage over the yellow surface of the gourd. "It's been going on some months now, bless him! Ah'd like to know how he started in. Ah believe mahself it's Sydney."
"No likely," she said, with a setting of her firm mouth. "Dinna ye fear for me. He's gaun to Maister Murray an' no sik a late date neither." She smiled slyly and her eyes twinkled. "He ses tae me, ses he, 'Ah dinna like ye in black, ses he, 'Ah'd like to see ye in somethin' that's mair spicy, ses he.
She jerked her thumb over her shoulder towards the receding farm-house. "There's a pint o' o' beesiness ah'd like ye tae see Maister Coulson aboot, Lizzie if ye would'na mind obleegin' an' auld neeighbor buddy." Elizabeth's risibilities were nearly upsetting her composure. "Yes," she faltered, "I I'll do anything I can for you, and I'm sure John Coulson will, too, in your business."
They "Oh'd" and "Ah'd" in vast astonishment and admiration; and one of them humorously asserted that it had been engaged, at a huge expense, to celebrate the anniversary of American Independence. So the celestial arch vanished in the echo of a horse-laugh. But Bressant and Cornelia, as they stood silently arm-in-arm, felt as if it were rather the presage of an emancipation of their own selves.
There was a keen expectancy in the air as he sat down to the table, but he did not notice. He went through the meal in moody silence, mechanically eating what was before him. The children um'd and ah'd and made smacking noises with their mouths. But he was deaf to them. "D'ye know what you're eatin'?" his mother demanded at last, desperately.
"Ah'd be a fool onyway, if Ah let a wumman scare me the way you did, John. Ah, ha! Here's his reverence now, comin' to tell ye about Muskoky, very like. Ah'll jist be biddin' ye a good-evenin'." He tramped down the steps as the tall form of the minister came into the ring of light. "Fine night," remarked each of the company in turn.
"The docter went along widdem, to Denver," observed Jeb. "Gosh! Ah wisht Ah wuz a doctor, en Ah'd have gone, too. It wuz a free ride fer him, yuh-know." The humor of the remark made every one smile, and Jeb gazed from one to the other to find out just where he had been witty. "Never mind, Jeb; you and Sary are going to Denver, you know, for that ring," whispered Mrs. Brewster, aside to Jeb.
Sary deigned no reply to the information but vented a bit of her ire against the new-comers by shrugging her great shoulders and saying: "Ef Ah w'ar you-all, Miss Brewster, Ah'd shore pitch them trunks clar over th' line inta Wyomin' state whar th' Injuns kin scramble fer th' fancy duds!" "Oh, Sary, I smell the cherry-dumplings scorching!" cried Mrs.
Ah have been hunting for some kind of a gal to help the missus this summer and to have her broken in by the time Polly leaves home," explained Sam Brewster. "Git one?" "Not yet! It seems they're as scarce as hen's teeth. Ah never dreamed it would be such a job to hunt one up, or Ah doubt if Ah'd have consented to have those girls come and summer with us." "See har, Sam!
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