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For days, though, I put off callin' the bunch together and announcin' the sad fact. More'n a week went by, and I was still dreadin' to do it. Then here this mornin' in romps young Blair Woodbury, his eyes sparklin' and a broad grin on his face. He's flourishin' a bundle about the size of a two weeks' fam'ly wash, and as he sees me he lets out a joy yelp.
An' milk toast an' dates'd reconcile me to 'most any change for the better. "It got so then that I went upstairs every noon an' fixed up her lunch for her, an' one day she done what I'd been dreadin'. 'Mr. Bemus, she says, 'that baby must be over the croup now. Won't you won't you take it down this orange an' see if you can't bring it up here awhile? "I went down, but, law! where was the use?
"That's what I was dreadin' " he said as he turned and rode back to the edge of the sand. Carolyn June gazed, wide-eyed, speechless with horror, at the horse in the sand. When the rope broke, Old Blue, with a groan almost human, sank back and quickly settled down until only his head and part of his neck were exposed to view.
Like his father, he was possessed of vast physical strength, and took pride in his powers of endurance. "Wal, here goes," he said, stripping off his outside coat. "It's tough, but it aint no use dreadin' it." Bradley smiled back at him in his wordless way, and caught hold of the first ear. It sent a shiver of pain through him.
Huh, I'se er dreadin' eber step o' de way ober dar." "Here's a quarter," said Mrs. Mayfield, handing him a piece of silver. "Thankee, ma'm. Oh, you's whut da calls er missiunary, an' I gwine he'p ole black mammy pray fur you." "Oh, how beautiful nature sleeps and dreams of paradise," mused the romantic woman and the preacher clasped his hands. "Down off there is where the foxes live," said Lou.
While we waited for the maids to lay the table, my sister moved in and out, directing them; and the doctor gazed at her in a way so marked that I made sure she had forgotten a hook or a button, and followed her to the kitchen to discover the omission. "Sure, Bessie, dear," I began, very gingerly, "I'm fair dreadin' that you're you're "
I'd do anything she wanted me to do; but most the way down on the train yes, and long afore that I'd been dreadin' my comin' home on one account. I dreaded tellin' her that, unless she was real set on it, she'd better not marry me. "You see, John, I've thought a lot sence I've been away. Had consider'ble time to do it in. And the more I thought the less that promise to dad seemed right.
He was still wiping perspiration from his forehead, and he mechanically repeated to Warden the words he had uttered to himself immediately after Lawler left his office: "I'm glad it's over. I've been dreadin' it. He's the only one in the whole bunch that I was afraid of. There'll be hell to pay in this section, now pure, unadulterated hell, an' no mistake!"
So Serena Fogg's idees of men and married life wuz about as thin and as well suited to stand the wear and tear of actual experience as a gauze dress would be to face a Greenland winter in. And when we got it all arranged Josiah and I set out for home, I calm in my frame, though dreadin' the job some. But Josiah Allen wuz jest crazy over that lecture crazy as a loon.
I've always believed in rarin' me family me own way, an' Mrs Bray is a fine woman, moral and decent, but she's got too many stones to throw at others and doesn't see to it sharp enough that less stones can't be threw at her. I thought she didn't take it serious enough. You'd have been in this too only for me dreadin' the spark. What are they goin' to do?"
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