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So you're not in love. Then I don't know what does ail you. I'll say this, though, for a body that ain't in love you certainly stay with the Danielses a long time. You went there right after meetin' this noon and now it's seven o'clock and you've just got home. And 'twas the same last Sunday and the one before. Been there all the time, have you?"
Don't you tell her I come here, will you? I'll find Mr. Ellery. I know where he is." "I wouldn't go to the Danielses', if I was you. Elkanah might not like to have you chasin' after his visitors." "Oh, the minister ain't at the Danielses', not as late's this, he ain't. I know where he is." "You do?" The housekeeper looked at him keenly. "Yes, sir, I do.
This was denied, upon investigation, but soon another rumor grew and spread; Grace Van Horne was with him, had taken him back to the shanty, and insisted upon staying there until the doctor came. Facing that dreadful disease and It was wonderful and queer. At the Danielses' house the servant girl rushed into the dining room to serve the toast and the story at one swoop.
Them Danielses cal'late they own the most of this town already; if they owned the minister they'd swell up so the rest of us would have to go aloft or overboard; we'd be crowded off the decks, sure." "No one owns him. Haven't you found that out?" "Yup, I cal'late I have and I glory in his spunk." "I'm glad to hear you say so. Of course Cap'n Elkanah is boss of the parish committee and " "What?
Next morning after you left and did not return, master looked at the cover which I had from habit placed for you, and remarked: 'Oh, by the way, you will have another to lay to-morrow, as we shall have two guests for, I hope, a long time. He meant the Danielses, madame. Their coming made it a little livelier for him and M. Antonino."
Emulous Sparrow, the fish peddler, was seated in his cart, which was surrounded by men and women, neighbors of the Danielses. There was a perfect storm of questionings and ejaculations. Salters opened the gate and joined the group. A moment later he came running back, up the walk toward the piazza. "Cap'n," he shouted. "Cap'n Elkanah, here's news! What do you think?
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