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"Somethin' that's already did?" "Yes, 'm" still lower. "Did you think you was actin' fer the best?" The girl lifted a pair of honest gray eyes. "Yes, ma'am, I did." "I bet you did!" said Mrs. Wiggs, heartily. "You ain't got a deceivin' bone in yer body. Now what you want to do is to brace up yer sperrits.
"It’s no use my deceivin’ you as to my bein’ a little hard of hearin’," she said to him, "because you can see my ear-trumpet; so I’ll trouble you to say that over again." "All right, I will," Clover wailed, good-humoredly. "What?" asked Aunt Mary. "I didn’t—" Jack cut her short by leading the party inside. The scene within was as gorgeous with golden stucco as the dining-room of a German liner.
"But she started over for here yesterday morning, figgerin' to spend the day with your Sallie. When she didn't come back at night my woman an' me reckoned it snowed so hard you folks wouldn't let her come." "Oh, lawk!" exclaimed Mr. Morton. "They was off yesterday mornin' just as soon as your Celia got here. Planned it all a forehand the deceivin' imps! Said they was goin' to the Corner.
"I don't suppose ye want to make yer will, do ye?" "Stuff!" said Phoebe, bravely, but her gaze was fixed anxiously on the indicator, now fast approaching the 2d of April. "Oh, dear! 'F I could only see ye, Phoebe!" cried Rebecca. "I know he's a mis'able deceivin' man, but if if oh, Phoebe, can't ye holler!" "It's April 8th good-bye!" Phoebe said, faintly. "Phoebe Phoebe!" "Hurray hurray!
Jock's a deceivin' fighter, for he is all fat to the eye, an' he moves slow. Now, I'm all beef to the look, an' I move quick. By my reckonin' the Dearsley man won't take me; so me an' Orth'ris 'll see fair play. Jock, I tell you,'twill be big fightin' whipped, wid the cream above the jam. Afther the business 'twill take a good three av us Jock 'll be very hurt to haul away that sedan-chair.
Eunice rose to do as suggested. Indeed, she had been sitting so absorbed in her own thoughts that she had not observed the coming of nightfall; but Susanna interposed: "You set still, Eunice Maitland, till I get all the lamps lit there is. I've got to have a chance to see whether I'm awake or dreamin'. I want to see square into your own face, an' learn if you're bein' deceived or are deceivin' me.
When Lucinda returned from drying her feet, Aunt Mary had her handkerchief in one hand and spectacles in the other. "Saints and sinners!" cried the maid, in a voice that grated with sympathy. "He ain’t writ to say he’s dead, is he?" "No," said Aunt Mary; "but he isn’t as well as he makes out. There’s no deceivin’ me, Lucinda!" "Dear! dear!" cried the Trusty and True; "is that so?
"Where be you going?" "I'm goin' out a little ways," replied Mrs. Field. Then she raised her voice suddenly. "I've got something to say to all of you before I go," said she. "I've been deceivin' you, and everybody here in Elliot. When I came down here, they all took me for my sister, Esther Maxwell, and I let them think so. They've all called me Esther Maxwell here. That's how I got the money.
"She'll salivate me, most likely, for me lettin' her kiss me an' fuss over me. But I ain't carin' a heap. I ain't never been no hand at deceivin' no one I ain't foxy enough. There's been times since I've been here when I've been scared to open my mouth for fear my damned heart would jump out.
"Looks is deceivin'," he said. "I've got a heap of burden on my mind. I've got a thousand dollars which is botherin' me considerable." The puncher sat erect, his eyes bulging. "You've got a thousand!" he said "Oh, Lordy! An' you're botherin' about it?" "It ain't none of your business, of course," said Calumet. "An' I reckon I'm tellin' you about it so's you'll feel mean about losin' your own.
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