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At Anthony's approach they moved away, with slow, casual steps, passed through the posts at the bottom of the lane and plunged down the steep path, as if under the impression that the nature of the ground covered their retreat. They bobbed up again, one after the other, when the lane was clear. The first to appear was a tall, handsome, bad-tempered-looking girl. She spoke first.
When they reached Zumbro Creek it hadn't gone down a bit, except to go down stream, and it was doing that like the dickens. It certainly was a very bad-tempered-looking creek, but Cal Smith wasn't afraid of it.
She finished her dinner before any one else, and pushed her chair back; she always helped with the housework, a thin, sorry, bad-tempered-looking poor soul, whom grief had sharpened instead of softening. "I expect you feel too fine to set with common folks," she said enviously to Betsey. "Here I be a-settin'," responded Betsey calmly. "I don' know's I behave more unbecomin' than usual."
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