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It seemed like an epoch in her life, as if some grave event were approaching in which she must hold a share. "Now, darter," said uncle Nathan, laying his hand or her head, "you and I have got a secret between us. It's the first time in years that I have mentioned Anna. We needn't be afraid to talk about her now, when Hannah isn't by."
Uncle Henry came to Gilbert's rescue, after the manner of all relatives when an outsider steps in with criticism. "Only a minute ago I heard you call him a gol darn fool!" Hardy triumphantly reminded him. "There you are," said Gilbert, addressing his uncle. "That's what you get " "Do you think I want my darter to marry a gol darn fool?" Hardy fired back at the old man.
You hear me, young fellow. Mr. Renshaw my darter. My darter Mr. Renshaw. Rosey, give the gentleman a chair. She's only jest come in from a promeynade, and hez jest taken off her bonnet," he added, with an arch look at Rosey and a hurried look around the cabin, as if he hoped to see the missing gift visible to the general eye. "So take a seat a minit, won't ye?" But Mr.
But Roxby's eyes, with a certain gleam of excitement, a superstitious dilation, still dwelt upon the bridge at the end of the upward vista. He went on merely from the impetus of the subject. "Yes, sir she seen it a-pacin' of its sorrowful way acrost that bredge, same ez the t'others of the percession o' harnts. 'Twar my niece, Mill'cent brother's darter by name, Mill'cent Roxby.
"Ay, ay; all this is easy enough aforehand, and to such scholars as you; but it comes hard on a fellow like myself to heave his idees out of him, as it might be, with a windlass. I managed the old woman right well, and could get along with a dozen mothers, better than with one sister's darter.
"A body must get through wi' it when it's there, but I don't hold wi' thinkin' about it when it's done." "I know one," said old Patton, slily, "that fretted about her darter when it didn't do her no good." He had not spoken so far, but had sat with his hands on his stick, a spectator of the women's humours.
"Anythin' you tell me to do, squire, I'll do. I'd mos' skelp the ole man Perritaut, and his darter too, ef you said it would help me to cut out that insultin' Smith Westcott, and carry off Miss Charlton. I don't know as I ever seed a gal that quite come up to her, in my way of thinkin'. Now, squire, what is it?" "Well, Mr. Sawney, we carried the election the other day and got the county-seat.
Gudgeon, there is a pootty gal as is, I am told, a-livin' along o' you." "Oh, oh, my fine shiny Quaker gent," sez I, an' I flings the door wide open an' there I stan's in the doorway, "it's her you wants, is it?" sez I. "And pray what does my fine shiny Quaker gent want wi' my darter?" "Your darter?" sez 'e, an opens 'is mouth like this, and shets it agin like a rat-trap.
Rose air er mountain gal by bringin' up, ef not by birth, an' 'tis hyar thet she rightfully belongs now." "'Not by birth?" echoed Donald, in surprise. "But I thought that she was your granddaughter?" "An' so she be or perhaps my darter," hastily answered Jerry, realizing his error too late. "I reckon I shouldn't hev told ye," he added in distress. "Don't let any such idea worry you, Mr. Webb.
Ye hev always been a good frien' o' mine. This hyar man he stole my darter from me, an' whenst she wanted ter be frien's, an' not let her old dad die unforgiving he wouldn't let her send the word ter me.
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