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Still with that strained, white look on his face he had hurried out of the yard and through the gate. Mrs. McGuire, however, did hear. "My stars, Susan Betts, it's lucky your bark is worse than your bite!" she exclaimed. "Mend 'em, indeed! They won't be dry before you've got your darnin' egg in 'em." Susan laughed ruefully.
And it wuz Josiah's wish too, for the pay wuz good, and the work light for him. And so I consented after a parlay. But I didn't regret it. She is a good little creeter and no more like her mother than a feather bed is like a darnin' needle. I like Ardelia: so does Josiah. We have been havin' a pound party here in Jonesville.
"I've seed him as far gone as any one iver I comed across, wi' starvation; but the way that fellow walked into the grub when he got the chance was wonderful to behold! I thought he'd ait me out o' the house entirely; and he put so much flesh on his bones in a week or two that he was able to go about his business, though he warn't no fatter when he began to ait than a consumptive darnin' needle.
"Did you take notice of that critter I was a handlin' of, Squire? that one that's all drawed up in the middle like a devil's darnin' needle; her hair a standin' upon eend as if she was amazed at herself, and a look out of her eye, as if she thort the dogs would find the steak kinder tough, when they got her for dinner.
Why in Heaven’s name don’t you say suthin’? Anythin’? Anythin’ but nothin’, that is." "He’s mowin’," Lucinda shrieked. "Sewin’!" exclaimed Aunt Mary. "What’s he sewin’? Where’s he sewin’? Have you stopped doin’ his darnin’?" Lucinda gathered breath by compressing her sides with her hands, and then replied, directing her voice right into the ear-trumpet: "He’s mowin’ the back lawn."
I wuz a settin' there, as soft and pliable in my temper as the woosted I wuz a darnin' 'em with, my Josiah at the same time a peacefelly sawin' wood in the wood-house, when I heard a rap at the door and I riz up and opened it, and there stood two perfect strangers, females. Then ensued a slight pause durin' which my two gray eyes roamed over the females before me.
I winna promise to please yer mither wi' my darnin' though. 'I have no mother to find fault with it, said Ericson. 'Weel, a sister's waur. 'I have no sister, either. This was too much for Miss Letty. She could keep up the bravado of humour no longer. She fairly burst out crying. In a moment more the shoes and stockings were off, and the blisters in the hot water.
"Did you take notice of that critter I was a handlin' of, Squire? that one that's all drawed up in the middle like a devil's darnin' needle; her hair a standin' upon eend as if she was amazed at herself, and a look out of her eye, as if she thort the dogs would find the steak kinder tough, when they got her for dinner.
"She's gettin' along right nice, I think," replied the widow, looking proudly at her one chick. "You see, she's a lot o' darnin' an' one thing another to do, but she finds time for her landskips and things." "Well, mebbe so," assented Hezekiah grudgingly. "For my part there's nothing set's a gal off like spinnin' an' weavin', an' it puts more money in her pocket, besides." "La, Mr.
Jeanne, coming into the room, quickly took the garment from her. "Madame, she must not do that. Quelle horreur! I will attend to it at once." Drusilla laughed. "Can't I even patch my dress?" she said. "Jane, where are my stockin's? I am sure there must be some darnin'." Jeanne looked at her reproachfully. "Madame does not wear darned stockings." "Stuff and nonsense!" said Drusilla.
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