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Updated: July 19, 2025
I hope your Reverence 'll come to the christ'nin'? But about the clo'es; bad luck saize the tack I have to put to my back, but what you see an me, if we wor to be married to-morrow." "Well, Phelim, aroon," said Mrs. Doran, "his Reverence here has my little pences o' money in his hands, an' the best way is for you to get the price of a suit from him.
After his belated dinner, Jim had gone back to his potatoes, leaving his mother and sister deep in discussion over the comparative virtues of Nottingham lace and plain muslin, made up with ruffles, for parlor curtains. "I really believe I'd rather spend more on the house than on clo'es at my age," he heard his mother saying, happily, as he strode away.
Janice ran to call her. Miss Peckham was descending the stairs, her nose in the air. She seemed offended that she could not rule the proceedings. "Mrs. Weeks," said Janice to the woman from across the street, "will you come in? Father wants to speak to you." "I I don't know as my legs will carry me," sighed Mrs. Weeks. "Have they put him to bed? Has he got his clo'es off?"
She never made no fuss when Josh was awake, but if he shet his eyes, she'd kind o' hang over the bed an' smooth the clo'es as if they was kittens, an' once I ketched her huggin' up the sleeve of his old barn coat that hung outside the door. If ever a woman made a fool of herself over a man that wa'n't wuth it, 'twas Lyddy Ann Marden!
The statement of the fact embarrassed Jim more than anything that had occurred in his interviews with the tailoress. "I sh'll pay ye some time, even if so be that nothin' happens," said he; "an' if so be that somethin' does happen, it'll be squar' any way. I don't want no man that I do fur to be beholden to workin' women for their clo'es."
This was a great help, though Uncle Abner, who had been bulldozed into complacency, he said, hinted on occasions that the "young fellow would be sharing himself with one of 'em before long." However, the energetic maidens gave no heed, save to the grand purpose of their lives. They learned to "gar old clo'es amaist as weel as new."
Peter turned, and caught an alcoholic breath over his shoulder, and the blurred voice of a Southern negro called out above the rumble of the car and the roar of the engine: "'Fo' Gawd, ef dis ain't Peter Siner I's been lookin' at de las' twenty miles, an' not knowin' him wid sich skeniptious clo'es on! Wha you fum, nigger?"
"My poy," said the Highlander, touched by Dan's appearance, "you hev been in the watter!" "Not exactly, father, but last night's thunderstorm caught us, and we had no time to seek shelter." "An' it iss fightin' you hev been?" "With water and rocks only," said Dan. "Well, well, go into the house now, and change your clo'es. Dry yourself, an' get somethin' to eat, for you are used up altogither."
Only Muckluck in her chilly "Holy Cross clo'es" stood sorrowful and silent, swinging her medal slowly back and forth. Nicholas warned them that the Pymeut air-hole was not the only one. "No," Yagorsha called down the slope; "better no play tricks with him." He nodded towards the river as the travellers looked back. "Him no like. Him got heap plenty mouths chew you up."
"Sa-ay! I'll wrastle you fo' them-ah clo'es." I waved a pleasant refusal and rode toward the house. The dwelling was entirely dark. I came close in the bright moonlight and hallooed. At my second hail the door came a small way open, and after a brief parley a man's voice bade me put up my horse and come in. The stable was a few steps to the right and rear.
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