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He moped about the store, waiting half-heartedly upon the few customers who happened in, and the ring of the supper bell was welcome, as it promised some company other than his thoughts. But the promise was not fulfilled. He ate his supper alone. Mrs. Dott had gone back to the lodge room, so Azuba said. "I don't think she was intendin' to," remarked the latter, confidentially.
Miss Matilda had peeped through a crack of the door and made this observation and the remark founded thereon. Continuing her attitude of attention, she overheard Mrs. Crane and her two daughters conversing in the attiring-room, up one flight. "How fine everything is in the great house!" said Mrs. Crane, "jest look at the picters!" "Matildy Sprowle's drawins," said Ada Azuba, the eldest daughter.
It may be the best idea in the world and it may be the worst, but I am going to risk it. And you must help me. Will you?" "Sartin sure I will!" "And you won't tell a soul, not a living soul?" "Not one, livin' or dead. You needn't look at me like that. I swan to mercy, I won't tell anybody." "Good! Then listen." Azuba listened, listened in silence.
At all events he strode from the room, and his anxious wife and the flushed Azuba heard him tramping through the front hall. "What WHAT is he going to do?" faltered Serena; "or say?" Azuba shook her head. "Land knows!" she exclaimed. "I ain't seen him this way since the weasel got into the hen-house. He went for THAT with the hoe-handle. And as for what he said! Well, don't talk to ME!"
Her wish was not received with enthusiasm. "Why, what do you want to do that for, Azuba?" asked Serena in amazement. "Why shouldn't I want to? You're a member, ain't you? Gertie's goin' to be a member to-night, ain't she?" "Yes. But but " "Well, but what?" "I didn't know you were interested in such things. You never were when we lived in Trumet."
Azuba had five thousand dollars of her own when she married him." "I know it," sez she, "and I can tell you, Josiah Alien's wife, where their property has gone, it has gone down Phileman Clapsaddle's throat. Look down that man's throat and you will see 150 acres of land, a good house and barn, twenty sheep and forty head of cattle." "Why-ee!" sez I.
I hadn't heard from her for years. She married Phileman Clapsaddle, and Serepty spoke out as bitter as a bitter walnut, and sez she: "She's in the poor-house." "Why, Serepta Pester!" sez I, "what do you mean?" "I mean what I say, my sister, Azuba Clapsaddle, is in the poor-house." "Why, where is their property gone?" sez I. "They wuz well off.
Shown into the Dott sitting-room by Azuba, who, as usual, had neglected to remove her kitchen apron, he bowed politely and inquired if he had the pleasure of addressing Captain and Mrs. Daniel Abner Dott. The captain assured him that he had. Serena was too busy glaring at the apron and its wearer to remember etiquette. "Won't you won't you sit down, Mr. er er " began the captain. Mr.
Gertrude and her mother had gone they were to dine with the committee at Annette's and when Daniel, at seven o'clock, shouted for his dinner, no dinner was ready. "I can't stop to fuss with dinner," said Azuba firmly. "I've got to get ready for my Band meetin'. All the afternoon I've been fussin' with my speech I'm goin' to speak to-night and now it's time for me to change my clothes.
I told her I didn't believe she could git 'em done inside that length of time, but I would tell the President about it, and I thought more'n likely as not he would want to do right by her. "And," sez I, "if he sets out to, he can haul them babies of yourn out of that Ring pretty sudden." And then to git her mind offen her sufferin's, I asked how her sister Azuba wuz gittin' along?
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