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Allen sprang to her and took her in his strong arms: she struggled free from him. In a moment the vibration which his passionate speech had produced in her passed away. She dried her eyes and said firmly enough, "It's no use, Al: we wouldn't be happy together. Good-bye! I shouldn't wonder if I went away from Chaney Creek before long." She walked rapidly down to the river-road.
'Is it thinking anybody would go make a muthaun of himself to give the like for that saucer? But Owney-na-peak had no answer to make, only to cry out: 'Raal chaney! one hundred pieces of goold!
With great pride the old woman conducted me over the premises, and showed me the furniture "the masther" had bought; especially recommending to my notice a china tea-service, which she considered the most wonderful acquisition of the whole. "Och! who would have thought, a year ago, misthress dear, that we should be living in a mansion like this, and ating off raal chaney?
Their luggage, even, when gravely enumerated the lady having "a parasol, a smelling bottle, a round and a half of cold buttered toast, eight peppermint drops, and a doll's hair-brush;" the gentleman having "about half a dozen yards of string, a knife, three or four sheets of writing paper folded up surprisingly small, a orange, and a chaney mug with his name on it."
The only dowry that Seraphita Neilsen brought her husband, besides her delicate beauty and her wide blue eyes, was a full set of Swedenborg's later writings in English. These became the daily food of the solitary household. Saul Chaney would read the exalted rhapsodies of the Northern seer for hours together, without the first glimmer of their meaning crossing his brain.
"Nothing for you, Al Golyer," said Saul, gloomily. "The god of this world takes care of the like o' you." Golyer smiled, as a prosperous man always does when his poorer neighbors abuse him for his luck, and rejoined: "I ain't so fortunate as you think for, Saul Chaney. I lost a Barksher pig yesterday: I reckon I must come up and ask Gershom what's come of it." "Come along, if you like.
The gentleman had got about half a dozen yards of string, a knife, three or four sheets of writing-paper, folded up surprising small, a orange, and a Chaney mug with his name upon it. "What may be the exact nature of your plans, sir?" says Cobbs. "To go on," replied the boy which the courage of that boy was something wonderful! "in the morning, and be married to-morrow."
That was why he found no zest in the morning sunshine. Ed Chaney, casting a glance at him, said: "You've overdone it. Better lay off for a couple of days." "I'm able to work," replied Sam. "I want to work." "All right!" agreed Ed cheerfully. "You can hoe the garden. I'll go to the piny ridge and chop."
She's a well-behaved girl enough, but she's too pretty and too simple-like for me to have her among the common run of servants. I'll see what I can do for her, when I see what sort of a housekeeper it is. And Jane gave Charlotte infinite injunctions, varying from due care of the 'chaney images' to reserve with mankind. 'Because you see, Charlotte' she said, 'you'll be terribly forsaken. Mrs.
A purty mess her table'd be, fur all its silver spoons an' fine chaney, ef she hed the settin' uv it. Tommy, don't spill thet gravy on the tablechoth. I'll send you'n' Buddy to the kitchen ef you can't eat lak white folks! She puffs herse'f on bein' a Temple, an' claims they wuz uv the bluest blood in Virginny.
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