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Updated: May 3, 2025
You might know she'd find somethin'. We've been playin' it that game since almost the first, 'cause there wa'n't no one else she could play it with though she did speak of her aunt." Nancy chuckled. "I guess you hain't got such an awful diff'rent opinion o' the mistress than I have," she bridled. Old Tom stiffened.
"Not while they were backsliders; but perhaps they'd begin to climb again, and then in time they might grow to be angels." "I should n't think likely," remarked Sue, decisively, clicking her needles as one who could settle most spiritual problems in a jiffy. "I think the sliding kind is diff'rent from the climbing kind, and they don't make easy angels."
The tie that knit them together was woven of impalpable strands, but it was unbreakable while he and his generation were above the earth. "Dar ain' no end er trouble, Marse Gabriel, ez long ez dar's yo' chillen en de chillen er yo' chillen ter come atter you. De ole ain' so techy dey lets de hornet's nes' hang in peace whar de Lawd put hit but de young dey's diff'rent."
"Bad practice, Susan sometimes," he laughed whimsically. "Not this time." "Poetry?" She shook her head. "No. I ain't poetizin' so much these days, though I did write one yesterday about the ways of the world. I'm goin' to read it to you, too, by an' by. But that's jest a common poem about common, every-day folks. An' this thing I was thinkin' about was was diff'rent."
Orville Jones commented, "And, then take our other advantages the movies, frinstance. These Yapville sports think they're all-get-out if they have one change of bill a week, where here in the city you got your choice of a dozen diff'rent movies any evening you want to name!"
'What d'ye suppose he's like, Osman? says wan. 'Oh me, oh my, says th' other, 'but he's th' tur-rble wan. They says his voice is like thunder, an' lightnin' shoots fr'm his eyes that wud shrivel th' likes iv ye an' me to a cinder. But whin Abdul, be damid, as th' potes call him, made th' mistake iv pokin' his head out iv th' palace 'twas diff'rent.
"I reckon," said David, "'t she kind o' missed the comp'ny an' the talk at table, an' the goin's on gen'ally, an' mebbe the work of runnin' the place she was a great worker an' it got to be some diff'rent, I s'pose, after a spell, settin' down to three meals a day with jest only me 'stid of a tableful, to say nothin' of the evenin's.
Sam pretended not to believe 'em at fust, and said they was jealous; but next day he crept down to the greengrocer's shop in the same street, where Ginger had 'appened to buy some oranges one day, and found that it was only too true. Nine children, the eldest of 'em only fifteen, was staying with diff'rent relations owing to scarlet-fever next door.
"What do you mean?" asked the depot master. "I mean that Jonadab's been givin' me heart disease, that's what; givin' it to me in a good many diff'rent ways, too. We opened the Old Home House the middle of April this year, because Peter T. Brown thought we might catch some spring trade. We did catch a little, though whether it paid to open up so early's a question.
What is the face-vally of a clock, I like to know, compared to that? But of co'se the ol' lady she's gettin' on in years, and then she's my wife's mother, which makes her my direc' mother-in-law; an' so I'm slow to conterdic' anything she says, an' I guess her idees o' regulatin' childern not to say clocks is sort o' diff'rent to wife's an' mine.
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