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"Of course I shall not! Never! never!" "What's that you're never goin' to take, Caroline? Measles? or another trip down in these parts? I hope 'tain't the last, 'cause I've been cal'latin' you'd like it well enough to come again." Caroline turned. So did Sylvester. Captain Elisha was standing in the doorway, his hand on the knob.
He was delighted to find how little change there was in South Orham. "'No matter if 'tain't but fifteen cents he'll get it, if the s'lectmen don't watch him, I says; and the bills, too. I know HIS tribe. "'You don't understand, says Nickerson. 'He ain't no thief. He's rich, I tell you, and he's cal'latin' to do the town good. "'Course he is, I says. 'It runs in the family.
And at last, when 'twas pretty dark and I was cal'latin' to be about abreast of the bay end of the Cut-through, I heard from somewheres ashore a dismal honkin' kind of noise, same as a wild goose might make if 'twas chokin' to death and not resigned to the worst. "'My land! says I. 'It's happened! And I come about and headed straight in for the beach.
Thankful took up the paper first and read aloud what was written upon it. "For Thankful, with a larst merry Christmas from brother Jed. I am going away and if you want me I will be at New Bedford for two weeks, care the bark Finback." "'I am goin' away'," repeated Thankful. "Goin' away? Are you goin' away AGAIN?" "I I was cal'latin' to. I'm goin' cook on a whaler." "Cook! You a cook!
Didn't think I was cal'latin' to wear it, did you?" "No, but " "I should hope not. I ain't a Doctor Mary Walker, or whatever her name is." "But you did take it, just the same. I'm sartin you did. You must have." The lady's mouth relaxed, and there was a twinkle in her eye. "All right, Seth," she said. "Suppose I did; what then?" "I want it back, that's all." "You can have it.
"That ain't settled yet." "How'd you come to fetch her over here? You're the last ones I ever thought would be fetchin' a child to visit you. Say, you ain't cal'latin' to keep her for good, are you?" Zoeth hesitated. Shadrach's answer was emphatic. "Course not," he snapped. "What do Zoeth and me know about managin' a child? Keep her for good, the idea!" Isaiah chuckled.
"I don't wonder at that. Just think it over and we'll have another talk later." Mr. Keith and the Captain had that later talk several talks, in fact and a week after their first one Captain Shadrach suddenly announced that he was cal'latin' to run up to Boston just for a day on business and that Mary-'Gusta had better go along with him for company.
That's the way I felt about it. Says I, what's a dollar, anyway? Life's on'y a pilgrimage, says I; we ain't here for good, and we can't take it with us, says I. So I just dumped it down, knowin' the Lord don't suffer a good deed to go for nothin', and cal'latin' to take it out o' somebody in the course o' trade. Then there was another reason, John.
What was you cal'latin' to do with it, if you did get it?" "I was going to give it to Captain Hedge. He misses his, now that it's rusted so fast that it won't go. But I can't get it. I haven't got but fourteen cents, ten that Mamma gave me this morning for being a good girl and taking my medicine nice yesterday, and four that Mrs. Smalley gave me for getting the eggs last week.
You're cal'latin' to get to Heaven some time or other, I s'pose, but if the path is as narrow and crooked as they say 'tis I should be scared if I was you. You'll find a way to lose it, if there is one. Oh, dear me!" with a sudden change to a tone almost pleading. "Be you goin' to smoke again?" Kenelm's reply was strange for him. He scratched a match and lit his pipe with calm deliberation.
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