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And we'd keep the county seat here as sure as sundown." "Considerin' a change?" "The folks over in Glenmore are the question will come to a vote this fall. The county seat belongs here, not away off there at Glenmore, seven miles from the railroad." "What's your chance?" "Not very heavy right now. We can out-vote them in town, but the country's with Glenmore, all on account of our notorious name.
Silas Peckham, "Miss Darley, she's pootty much took up with the school. She's an industris young woman, yis, she is industris, but perhaps she a'n't quite so spry a worker as some. Maybe, considerin' she's paid for her time, she isn't fur out o' the way in occoopyin' herself evenin's, that is, if so be she a'n't smart enough to finish up all her work in the daytime.
And when I comes home Monday afternoon from the office I ain't even allowed to say howdy to the youngster until I've been dragged out and introduced triumphant to the only flock of custom-tailored turkeys in the country. Auntie and Vee and Madame Battou sure had done a neat job of costumin', considerin' the fact that they'd had no paper patterns to go by.
Rodney told me all about the accident, and so we have come to make inquiries." "Oh, she's all right, considerin' what she went through. She's all clewed down now and ridin' easy. Guess she'll be there fer some time. Want to see her?" "Yes, if she's able to be seen." "Able! Why, she's the fittest one of the bunch as fer as her mind is concerned.
"Now, that was kinder handsome, considerin' you'd killed your friend on account of it." "There ain't nothin' mean about me," said the man from Pike County. "I see there ain't," said Mr. Bickford dryly. "It reminds me of a little incident in my own life. I'll tell you about it, if you hain't any objection." "Go ahead. It's your deal."
An' I suppose it's natural, considerin' ye're little more than a child, an' I'm a'most old enough to be yer father, he retorted, with blunt bitterness. 'But ye know yer mother's took that dislike t' me. She'd never abide the sight o' me at Hootsey. He remained silent a moment, moodily reflecting. 'She'd jest ha't' git ower it. I see nought in that objection, he declared. 'Nay, Mr.
Sit ye down here, for oi'm a-goin' to spake plain the noight. Noo, by the Holy Vargin, oi'm in arenest. Are ye goin' to blow hot, or are ye goin' to blow could?" "Considerin' the hot night, Barney, wouldn't it be better for me to blow could?" Barney scratched his head in perplexity. "Ye know what I mane," he ejaculated. "Where will ye foind the girl that tells all she knows?"
An' over each candle she put a little red silk shade. You never saw a place look cosier. Then she went back an' waited: but in half-an-hour calls to Selina Mary agen: "'Selina Mary, run you back to the courthouse, an' bring word how far they've got. "So the little slip of a maid ran back, and this time 'twas "'Missis, the judge has done; an' now they're considerin' about Master Willie.
In one place he said: "I make no doubt you will find some purty SAD spots in my poetry, considerin'; but I hope you will bear in mind that I am a great sufferer with rheumatizum, and have been, off and on, sence the cold New Years.
You don't 'xpect much of a minister, 'n' I think as a general rule 't we 're pretty patient with ours, but you do 'xpect gratitude, 'n' a dollar's a dollar, 'n' considerin' the garret into the bargain, I felt my temper comin' pretty high, 'n' I jus' out with what I 'd been thinkin' all along 'n' I spoke the truth flat 'n' plain right to his face.
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