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"I could have slept on the couch, Katy," she protested. Kate looked at her frowned then smiled. "Oh, Miss Elsie, a body'd know you lost your mother young. Now if I'd 'a' forgot your uncle's bed, he'd 'a' made it hisself and said nothing. There's many young ladies as makes their own beds, and does all but the heavy sweepin'. I don't suppose you ever did such a thing in your life?"
He said it was most aggravatin' having to always lug a gun wherever he went. And what with being suspicious of strangers when he wa'n't suspicious by nature, he reckoned in time it would just naturally wear him out." "He stood it until he was risin' eighty," said Crenshaw. "His, father lived to be ninety, John, and as spry an old gentleman as a body'd wish to see.
My wirtuous acts in standin' by you has gave me as much satisfaction as I've ever had out of anything! But now, Tillie, about tellin' your pop. I don't suspicion he'd take it anyways ugly. A body'd think he'd be proud! And he hadn't none of the expense of givin' you your nice education!" "I can't be sure how he WOULD take it, Doc, so I would rather not tell him until I must." "All right.
Body'd think yer never see that stun afore in yer life. Gee-long a-a-ap!" Uncle Enoch would growl, accenting his words by jerking the lines. A scarecrow in the middle of a cornfield, an auction bill tacked to a stump, an old hat stuffing a vacant pane and proclaiming the shiftlessness of the Aroostook Billingses, would serve when nothing else offered excuse for skittishness.
A body'd think you expected letters to grow there, the same as American apples in barrels! How could you have there what you didn't put there? But let you go on off ou'er this now! Look at the state you have the clean floor in, with the rain dreeping from your cota-mor!"
A body'd think you was a young-one in arms, the care she took of you." Again I did not answer, and again the garrulous station master continued without waiting for a reply. "I says to her, says I, 'It's a pity George Taylor ain't to home, I says. 'I shouldn't wonder if he could help you with this Louisville stock you're so worried about.
"I wish I could have a sail in the Butterfly again," said Sylvia, a little wistfully. "Do you, Missy? Well, I reckons you can. I doan' believe any body'd stop me a-givin' yo' a little sail 'roun' de harbor," said Uncle Peter.
'Good land, Abby! says she; 'by the looks, a body'd think you didn't know the thermometer had risen to ninety-two since eleven o'clock this morning. 'I didn't, I says placid; 'our thermometer's broke. 'Well, you'd better get another right off, says she, wiping her face and groaning.
And then," added she, with hesitation, "I do not know if I ought " Ninny Moulin went to the window, opened it, and said to Rose-Pompon, who ran up to it, "Look there! before the door of the house." "What a pretty carriage! How comfortable a body'd be inside of it!" "That carriage is yours. It is waiting for you." "Waiting for me!" exclaimed Rose-Pompon; "am I to decide as short as that?"
"A body'd think you were seventy-five years old and had the rheumatism to see you move! Come and work the churn a bit. 'Twill limber you up." Jock knew that arguments were useless. His father had told him, girl's work or not, he was to help Jean, so he slowly dragged into the house and slowly began to move the dasher up and down. "Havers!" said Jean, when she could stand it no longer.
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