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"Miss Clemmie Pipkin," he began, bending his knees in the direction of the floor, and upsetting the table as he went down with a thud, "will you ship aboard this here old craft as fust mate with a rough old skipper like me?" "Lan' sakes! Get up off that floor. You look awful silly. Get up this minute, or I'll say no." The Captain got up with more alacrity than he had gone down.
"You don't know what you're missing," declared the Captain, smacking his lips to make the waffles appear more appetizing. "Have just one. Maybe your appetite is one of them coming kind, and I'll swan if 'tis that one taste of these would bring it with a gallop." "Don't urge him if he don't want 'em, Josiah." "Cal'late your talking must have gone to his stomach, hey, Clemmie?"
"If that's what's ailing you, and you're asking my pardon just to get ready to ask me " "Don't get mad, Clemmie. No, I ain't going to get down on my old prayer-bones, they're a mite too squeaky, though I'd be willing enough to do it if I thought it would do any good. I ain't going to pester you any more about that.
"Not for sartin, I didn't. I told him I'd think it over a spell and let him know." "Let him know! Pooh! I should say you will think it over, and for a purty long spell, too. You ain't going to sell a foot of it! That feller wasn't here for himself. He was playing one of Jim Fox's tricks on you." "But, Clemmie, " "Josiah, you mark my word, that lawyer feller was here to buy this place for Jim Fox.
I thought it all out 'longside Edna's bed last night. She was raving, and calling for some one, poor thing, who she'd refused to marry when she was young. I said then and there that I wasn't going to my grave with that kind of thing hanging over me. That is, if you ever asked me again." "You say you made up your mind last night, Clemmie?
"Josiah Pott!" she said at last. "I'd think you'd be ashamed telling such things!" "It ain't nothing more than what Adoniah told, and it happened just as I spun it. You used to think what Adoniah said was all right." The minister sobered instantly. "But it ain't right defaming the dead like that." "I ain't defaming no one. Don't get mad, Clemmie. Adoniah told the yarn himself."
You don't mind if I call you Mack here at home, do you?" "I want you to call me that, Aunt Clemmie." He gave her a hurried kiss, and started toward his room. At the corner of the upset table he paused. "If I didn't have to preach this morning I'd stay home, too." "You mean you'd go walking down 'long the beach," corrected the Captain. Miss Pipkin looked oddly at her lover. "Be they engaged?"
I was never intending less to hurt nobody than when I said that to you. I thought 'twould cheer you and Mack up a little; you was both looking a mite blue. You're a good woman, Clemmie, and any man that'd insult you would have me to settle with purty tolerable quick. You know how much I think of you." "Be you beginning to propose again?" she asked, her arms akimbo.
It's so Christian and nice to do things for others. That's what Aid means, aiding some one else." "If I ain't 'way off, most of the aiding business runs to the tongues of them present. Most women lean to tongue, excepting you, Clemmie." "Josiah, you ain't fit for the minister to live with! You shouldn't talk like that about the business of the Lord." "Cal'late I am sort of a heathen.
McGowan entered with an armful of wood, and as he stooped to drop it into the box Miss Pipkin looked sorrowfully at the Captain and shook her head. "I've done my best," said the seaman, slowly. "You'd think he was making his last will and testament from the way he's talking," remarked Miss Pipkin, trying hard to appear as though she was without the least concern. "Maybe I be, Clemmie. Maybe I be."
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