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"The stage didn't leave out whoever it is it drove right apast," said Aunty Em. "You go, Tillie, and see oncet who is it." Tillie was sure that she had not been seen by the evicted applicant for board, as she had been hidden behind the stove. This impression was confirmed when she now opened the door to him, for there was no recognition in his eyes as he lifted his hat.
An' whinever he went apast my father, he thought he felt a great scent of brimstone, an' it was that that freckened him entirely; for he knew it was brimstone that was burned in hell, savin' your presence. At any rate, he often heerd it from Father Murphy, an' he had a right to know what belonged to it he's dead since, God rest him.
"They won't come apast that scratch. You kin trust me. Ma and Pa trusts me with the roan colt." "The one you were riding?" asked Ernest. "Naw, not that," the boy laughed. "You git on, less'n you want to answer four million questions. You kin leave her with me. They won't come apast that scratch, and I kin skeer 'em off with this. They know I kin shoot."
Claims she'd go crazy with a leg a-hangin' back of the stove, and some day she'd up and slam it in the oven and serve it up for a roast. You kin thank your stars you hain't got wimmin's notions to worry you, Scattergood." "How d'ye stand on the proposition to have the town build a sidewalk up the hill apast the Congregational church, Deacon?"
An' whinever he went apast my father, he thought he felt a great scent of brimstone, an' it was that that freckened him entirely; for he knew it was brimstone that was burned in hell, savin' your presence. At any rate, he often heer'd it from Father Murphy, an' he had a right to know what belonged to it he's dead since, God rest him.
Beyond these, in the midst of the shining river, duskily slumbered the little, fortified and wooded Island of Sainte Hélène; and up the stream, apast the petty promontory of Pointe Saint Charles, stretched the low, umbrageous lapse of Nuns Island, whence the eye followed the bending flood, that trended towards where, with eternal toil and sullen roar, agonize for ever the hoary rapids of Lachine.
Folks that live here tell me that they do most of their business by telephone in the daytime, and then do their runnin' around at night, but I've got apast that. Time was when I could run around nights and then mow all day, but I can't do it now.
"D'know," said Oncle Jazon, resuming his habitual expression of droll dignity, "she shot apast me jes' as thet thing busted loose, an' she went like er hummin' bird, skitch! jes' thet way an' I didn't see 'r no more. 'Cause I was skeert mighty nigh inter seven fits; 'spect that 'splosion blowed her clean away! Ventrebleu! never was so plum outen breath an' dead crazy weak o' bein' afeard!"
Their black beards, the "big wan" with his wounded head, his left-handedness and his accidental exposure of the three fingers of the right hand, all were fully talked over. "When was it, Granny?" "Och, shure an' it wuz about three years apast." Then after having had his lungs treated, old Caleb left Granny and set out to do some very hard thinking.
"Unless the child is a witch in disguise which I shouldn't put apast her, for how else should she get the silks and jewels she wore to-night? she'll not be able to show her face again until I come to let her out. I wore a gracious manner, did I? and she knew me instantly in spite of it! There's a dutiful child for you. A dutiful child? A shameless hussy!"
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