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But the loneliness of the life was something neither had counted on, and both were glad enough to talk to a neighbor at every available opportunity. "I am coming over in a week or two, to stay three days, if your folks will keep me," said Mrs. Thompson. "Paul is going over to Dennett's Mills on business."
She threw her apron over her face and cried hard; then stopped and wiped her eyes. "She wants to see him, does she? Well, you bet she shall see him! I'll get him; he's playing in at Mr. Dennett's he's all on being an undertaker now. Mr. Dennett's a Funeral Pomps Director. But he's got to put on his new suit."
'I wish to the land I hed, says I. An' then I come away, for my tongue's so turrible spry an' sarcustic that I knew if I stopped any longer I should stir up strife. There's some folks that'll set on addled aigs year in an' year out, as if there wan't good fresh ones bein' laid every day; an' Lije Dennett's one of 'em, when it comes to river drivin'."
I once, in early youth, kissed a waitress at Dennett's. So don't accuse me of vulgarity; I admit it and flout you. Not, of course, that I have no pruderies, no fastidious metes and bounds. Far from it. Babies, for example, are too vulgar for me; I cannot bring myself to touch them. And actors. And evangelists. And the obstetrical anecdotes of ancient dames.
Wiley, who had deeply resented Long Dennett's telling of a story which he knew fully as well and could have told much better. "Now, nat'rally, I've seen things on the Kennebec " "Three cheers for the Saco! Hats off, boys!" shouted Jed Towle, and his directions were followed with a will.
Dennett's Rocket Apparatus, which was being placed in position on the rocks, is an invention by which many human lives are saved on our coasts every year. Like Manby's Mortar Apparatus, it is simple in its action and most effective in operation.
Morris, as she escorted her visitors into the cabin. "Quite well, but she mustn't expose herself too much. When I go to Dennett's I am going to get her a mixture from the doctor." The Thompsons were astonished to see the babies and wanted at once to hear all about them. "It certainly is a queer mix-up," said the man, later on. "I'll see if I can learn anything about them when I am away.
Wiley, who had deeply resented Long Dennett's telling of a story which he knew fully as well and could have told much better. "Now, nat'rally, I've seen things on the Kennebec " "Three cheers for the Saco! Hats off, boys!" shouted Jed Towle, and his directions were followed with a will.
'I wish to the land I hed, says I. An' then I come away, for my tongue's so turrible spry an' sarcustic that I knew if I stopped any longer I should stir up strife. There's some folks that'll set on addled aigs year in an' year out, as if there wa'n't good fresh ones bein' laid every day; an' Lije Dennett's one of 'em, when it comes to river-drivin'."
You know page six of the catechism says the only companions of the wicked after death are their father the devil and all the other evil angels; it wouldn't be any place to bring up a baby." "Whenever and wherever she wakes up, I hope she won't know that the big baby is going to the poor farm. I wonder where he is?" "Perhaps over to Mrs. Dennett's house. She didn't seem sorry a bit, did she?"
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