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It seemed to him for the first time that the dimples were far oftener absent from her face during his intercourse with her nowadays than they had been in the earlier weeks of their acquaintance. "Don't do that, Arabella!" he said suddenly. "There is no harm in it, but I don't like to see you." She turned and laughed. "Lord, I didn't know you were awake!" she said. "How countrified you are!
Jason drew the top bed in a bare-walled, bare-floored room with two other boys, as green and countrified as was he, and he took turns with them making up those beds, carrying water for the one tin basin, and sweeping up the floor with the broom that stood in the corner behind it. But even then the stark simplicity of his life was a luxury.
"You're awful good to ask me and I know you think you mean it, but I don't believe I ought to do it, even if I felt as if I could leave the house and everything alone. You see, I've lived here in Bayport so long that I'm old-fashioned and funny and countrified, I guess. You'd be ashamed of me." I smiled.
So he stuck his head out of the window, and kept it there so long, that Polly asked if anything was the matter. "Pooh! who cares for a countrified little thing like her," said Tom manfully to himself; and then the spirit of mischief entered in and took possession of him. "He 's pretty drunk; but I guess he can hold his horses," replied this evil-minded boy, with an air of calm resignation.
He was greatly pleased with Pelle. And he secretly admired his daughter more than ever. "You see, mother, there's something in that lass! She understands how to pick a man for himself!" he would cry enthusiastically. "Yes; I've nothing against him, either," Madam Stolpe would reply. "A bit countrified still, but of course he's growing out of it." "Countrified? He?
"Yes walked round the block to get outa the crowd. But " "I just had to kinda spruce up a bit, Mr. Tweet. I felt so kinda well, kinda countrified and and lost, you might say." "What's the fire got to do with that? And call me Playmate, too." "Nothin', I suppose." "Right across from the restaurant wasn't it?" "Yes." "M'm-m I'd 'a' made a good lawyer, wouldn't I, Hiram?" "I don't know why?"
Only she didn't let them show it much. Her manners were much stiffer than theirs. They said she was very countrified and simple that she had been brought up quite alone by their old uncle, in a little country town and hardly ever went away from home. 'And Edward never saw her? inquired Mrs. Burgoyne, with a motion of the head towards Manisty. 'No. He was at Chicago just those days.
For, being shortsighted, he was never particularly fond either of sport or of games of skill, and his interest had always centred on intellectual pursuits to a degree that amazed the more countrified squires of the neighborhood.
At this inn I was fain to take up my abode for the night, and was conducted to a little whitewashed bedchamber, draperied with scanty dimity and smelling of apples the humblest, commonest cottage chamber, but clean and decent, and with a certain countrified aspect which was pleasing to me.
Doig speaking somewhat broad, I had been led by imitation into an accent much more countrified than I was usually careful to affect a good deal broader indeed than I have written it down; and I was the more ashamed when another voice joined in behind me with a scrap of a ballad: "Gae saddle me the bonny black, Gae saddle sune, and mak' him ready, For I will down the Gatehope-slack, An' a' to see my bonny leddy."
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