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Aren't you delighted?" "It sounds very nice, doesn't it? I don't think I knew her more than just to speak to." "Dick'll be here in four days. I've been looking for you to tell you for the last hour. Where have you been?" "In the Park." "Alone, as usual, you hermit?" "Well, I met the Medlands and Mr. Norburn, and talked to them for a little while." "Alicia! But it's no use talking to you.
There'll be plenty of outside work measurin' lumber, markin' trees, an' such." "Why, Mr. Buell I you see, Dick he might not " I hesitated, not knowing how to proceed. But at my halting speech Buell became even more smiling and voluble. "Dick? Oh, Dick an' I stand all right; take thet from me. Dick'll agree to what I want. I need a young feller bad. Money's no object. You're a bright youngster.
"Wal, they shore was well heeled," drawled Blinky. "But what'll I do with all this?" queried Pan blankly. "Pan, as you seem to forget, Hardman owed your dad money, reckon you might rustle an' hunt up Dick Hardman an' give it to him. Say, Dick'll own the Yellow Mine now. Gee! He could spend all this in his own joint." "Dad, you never told me how much Hardman did you out of," Pan.
"I had thought I wouldn't go back again, but I am that tired." "You do look tired," rejoined Huldah, sympathetically. Her own little body was aching all over, and she was so weary she could gladly have lain down anywhere and slept, but it never occurred to her to mention the fact. "Dick'll mind the garden, so don't you worry about that." "Can you sleep on the sofa, do you think?"
Now, come back and talk to the family. Oh, I hope and pray Dick'll be good! Doesn't he look dear to-night, all red, as if he'd been logging? Has he? Have you? You look just the same. Oh, I do love Dick! I wish he'd let me, the way I want to." Meantime Charlotte had come in, and Nan went to her and put her hands on her shoulders and rubbed cheeks, as she used to do with Raven.
"'Pears as ef 'twas a drefful t'ing fur de poor chile ter be suff'rin' so," she would sigh to herself as she watched his worn and heavy face on her passages through the room; "but Hagar's t'ankful 'nough to see it, 'cause de poor chile'll find de Lord bimeby. Bress de Lord! Mas'r Dick'll find him some time!" A long and weary week passed away.
Just tell us what Dick'll need, and don't let's have any nonsense. The money's all provided. How do you know what'll become of him? He may be governor yet." "He mought preach!" That idea had suddenly dawned upon the perplexed mind of Mrs. Lee, and Dick's fate was settled. She was prouder than ever of her boy; and, truth to tell, her opposition was only what Mrs.
There's the "Fiery Cross," and there's Roodhouse with his "Tocsin," and now I s'pose Dick'll be startin' another paper of his own. 'No, no, replied Mutimer's supporter. 'He holds by the "Fiery Cross" still, so he said this mornin'. I've no opinion o' Roodhouse myself. He makes a deal o' noise, but I can't 'see as he does anything.
I'm afraid 'at Dick'll wait until I'm gone, an' then come snoopin' around, like a coyote sneakin' into camp when the hunters are away. Don't answer me now, child; just think it over careful. I've generally let you have your own way, but I do wish you'd give in to me this time." Was Jabez failin' was he? Well, not so you could notice it!
And you're going to go right straight ahead with our old plan! Dick'll propose again if you give him half a chance. And when he does, you say 'yes'! Understand? That's what you're going to do!" There was no safety in openly defying Barney.
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