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Updated: May 21, 2025
"I foresee that you've invented a very useful phrase." And sure enough Carline's reply was speedily incorporated into Harding's special vocabulary, and its author found herself unwittingly famous. "Now," said Madeline cheerfully, "you may all chase smiles around the room for a while, and when I say 'wipe, you are to wipe them off on a crack in the floor.
Answer me that, my leddy! 'I do own myself beaten, says she, 'and I retract my words. 'Say nae mair, yer leddyship! says I for I'm no a cruel man 'say nae mair, but maybe ye'll hae the justice for tae say a word tae the same effeck in the Castle whaur ye spak yestreen? 'I promise you I will, said the dowager 'here, take the rod! Weel, it was no sae muckle a fush as was Leddy Carline's.
Great laughter men made at that journey of Thorbiorn and the carline, and deemed he had been often enow out-played in his dealings with Grettir: first, at the Spring-Thing in the peace handselling; next, when Haering was lost, and now again, this third time, when the carline's thigh-bone was broken, and no stroke had been played against these from his part.
She turned to where he travelled down the Mississippi with her husband and read the description of Gus Carline's whiskey skiff man, his purchase of a gallon of whiskey; the result, which her imagination needed but few words to visualize; then Terabon's drifting away down stream, leaving the sot to his own insensibilities.
She felt deserted, as though she had need of Terabon to give her a view of his own life, that she might be diverted into something not sordid, and decidedly not according to Augustus Carline's ideals! After a time, seeing that Carline's boat had disappeared down river, she threw over her anchor, and rested in the eddy.
She dropped into Cape Girardeau, and sought a man whom she had met at her husband's house. This was Duneau Menard, who had little interest in the Carlines, but who would be a safe counsellor for Nelia Crele. He greeted her with astonishment, and smiles, and told her what she needed to know. "I was just thinking of you, Nelia," he said, "Carline's sure raising a ruction trying to find you.
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