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She yielded at last, and received a little bankbook in return for her money. "Jest about all I'll ever get," she said privately; and thereafter out of her' brass-bowed spectacles with an eagle's gaze she watched the banker go by. But the banker, seeing the dear old soul at the window looking out at him, always smiled and bowed, unaware of her suspicion.
She hadn't power to look forward at all. As she worked, she heard the high, shrill voices of the old people as they bustled about and nagged at each other. "Ma, where's my specticles?" "I ain't seen y'r specticles." "You have, too." "I ain't neither." "You had 'em this forenoon." "Didn't no such thing. Them was my own brass-bowed ones. You had yourn jest 'fore goin' to dinner.
A quaint figure, patriarchal with its flowing white hair and beard, puritanical with its set, smooth-shaven lips and tufted brows. Captain Eben held an open hymn book back in one hand and beat time with the other. He wore brass-bowed spectacles well down toward the tip of his nose.
"And I am very sorry for you, Miss Abigail, if you had to learn such ugly verses. If you had had a mamma like mine you would have had a better time, I think." Miss Abigail looked severely over her brass-bowed spectacles at Ruby, almost too shocked to speak for a moment. "I am sure, I don't know what your mother would say, Ruby Harper, if she heard you talking that way.
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