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"No," snarled Captain Dan, and went out for a walk. This was the last straw. If Azuba was going crazy the situation was hopeless indeed. And he had received no reply to his letter. Hapgood, left alone in the hall, grinned, strolled into the library and, regardless of Mr. Hungerford's presence, filled his pockets with cigars from his employer's box.
The only time I know that man is safe is when he's a thousand miles from dry land." Serena and Daniel were together in the parlor. It was past dinner time, but Azuba, for some reason or other, had not gotten dinner ready. This was unusual for, if there was one thing upon which the housekeeper prided herself, it was in being "prompt at meal times."
Oh, please go away PLEASE. I'll speak to her, Daniel, when I get time; I was going to. But just now I oh, my POOR head!" Daniel made up his mind to telegraph Doane that very afternoon, but he did not. A happening in the household prevented him. Mr. Hapgood was summarily discharged. Azuba was responsible for the affair. Serena was out "committeeing" as usual Gertrude was with her. Mr.
You are not ashamed of your home and you do not forget it. That is why I like you. Good night!" Somehow this remark pleased the captain greatly, but when he repeated it to Serena, she did not seem pleased. "I don't know what we shall do with that Azuba," she said. "She mortifies me to death, and yet you won't let me get rid of her." Her husband did not answer.
Hold on a minute, Azuba! Was all this in the picture?" "Yes." "And you paid to see it?" "Course I paid to see it. They wouldn't let me in for nothin', 'tain't likely." "Well, seems to me you've made a mistake. If cryin' and misery is what you want, I don't doubt you can find a lot of funerals to go to for nothin'. But what was there about all this mess of horrors that made you think of me?"
Azuba dismissed the past with a scornful sniff and a wave of the hand. "Trumet!" she repeated. "Trumet ain't nothin'. Nobody's anything in Trumet. We're in Scarford now, and Scarford's a progressive, up-to-date place. We've all changed since we've been here, and I'm changin' much as anybody.
She was arrayed in a new black gown, worn under protest, for her own idea had been to wear her Sunday dress, a vivid purple, with trimmings which, for color and variety, looked "like a patchwork tidy," as Captain Dan expressed it. Also, under still greater protest, she wore a white apron and cap. "I feel like my grandmother doin' dishes," Azuba declared when Mrs.
Never seen you rigged finer. A body would think she knew I was comin', wouldn't they, Cap'n Dan?" Daniel did not answer, although he seemed much interested in the situation. Azuba drew a hand across her forehead. "I DIDN'T know it," she declared emphatically. "Indeed, I didn't! Why didn't you write me, Laban Ginn?" "Write! Write nothin'! I wanted to surprise you. But there, there!
He stayed, so it seemed to Daniel, a good deal longer than was necessary, and Mr. Hungerford, who remained in the room every moment of the time, evidently thought so, too. So did Serena. Gertrude, however, was very cordial, and again begged the visitor not to hurry. That forenoon Azuba electrified her mistress by expressing an ardent desire to become a member also.
"Oh, I don't know, unless the way you and Mrs. Dott are goin' in for society in Scarford. Course your child is grown up, so that's different, though, ain't it?" "Yes, and there isn't any paralysis in the family, so far as I know. That's a mercy. Don't you get paralysis, Azuba. If you do, it will take you longer to get breakfast than it does now." "That's all right.
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