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Ruff tell us?" "He told me I looked like one of the devil's angels and that I dressed to knock the daylights out of men." "Well, Carley Burch, if that isn't rich!" exclaimed Eleanor, with a peal of laughter. "I dare say you appreciate that as an original compliment." "No.... I wonder what Ruff would say about jazz I just wonder," murmured Carley.
"It's a wonderful day, and there isn't much to do here...." "Sadie Burch? Sadie Burch? Sure, I know her!" answered the lanky man driving the flivver tractor nearby, as he inspected the motor carrying Mr. Tutt. "She lives in the second house beyond the big elm " and he started plowing again with a great clatter. The road glared white in the late afternoon sun.
I know what to do. I want to lose myself in the wheat country and forget the the war. I'll not be afraid of work, presently.... Now, Miss Burch, you've been so kind I'm going to ask you to lend me a little money. I'll pay it back. I can't promise just when. But some day. Will you?" "Assuredly I will," she replied, heartily. "I'm happy to have the opportunity to help you.
Mr. Burch bowed courteously, accepted the invitation "in the same spirit in which it was offered," and asked Brother Milliken to lead in prayer. If the Eternal Ear could ever tire it would have ceased long ere this to listen to Deacon Milliken, who had wafted to the throne of grace the same prayer, with very slight variations, for forty years. Mrs.
Dunke was at the head of the gang that held up that train. We got nabbed, me and Jim. Burch got shot in the Catalinas by one of the rangers, and Smith died of fever in Sonora. But Dunke, curse him, he sneaks out and buys the officers off with our plunder. That's what he done let his partners get railroaded through while he sails out slick and easy. But he made one mistake, Mr. Dunke did.
Now suppose your father had given all his property to charity, would you feel obliged to impoverish yourself for the benefit of a Home for Aged Mariners?" "Really," replied the bewildered Payson. "I don't know. But anyway I'm satisfied you're quite right and I'm tremendously obliged. However," he added musingly, "I'd rather like to know who this Sadie Burch is!"
But this unrest means speed-mad, excitement-mad, fad-mad, dress-mad, or I should say undress-mad, culture-mad, and Heaven only knows what else. The women of our set are idle, luxurious, selfish, pleasure-craving, lazy, useless, work-and-children shirking, absolutely no good." "Well, if we are, who's to blame?" rejoined Eleanor, spiritedly. "Now, Carley Burch, you listen to me.
And this blank habit of mind, when she did not think, and now realized that she was not dreaming, seemed to be the body of Carley Burch, and her heart and soul stripped of a shell. Nerve and emotion and spirit received something from her surroundings. She absorbed her environment. She felt. It was a delightful state.
Feeling a little shy and considerably too young for this assemblage, Rebecca sought the shelter of a friendly face, and seeing Mrs. Robinson in one of the side seats near the front, she walked up the aisle and sat beside her. "Both my aunts had bad colds," she said softly, "and sent me to represent the family." "That's Mrs. Burch on the platform with her husband," whispered Mrs. Robinson.
"Then you say the law won't let me pay this money to Sadie Burch whether I am willing to or not?" asked Payson. "Not as executor. As executor you're absolutely obliged to carry out the terms of the will and disregard anything else. You must preserve the estate intact and turn it over unimpaired to the residuary legatee!" repeated Tutt. "But I am the residuary legatee!" said Payson.
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