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When she saw Benito galloping up to her door, she sprang down from her high stool at the loom, and ran bareheaded to the gate, and before Alessandro had dismounted, cried: "Ye're jest the man I wanted; I've been tryin' to 'range it so's we could go down 'n' see yer, but Jeff couldn't leave the job he's got; an' I'm druv nigh abaout off my feet, 'n' I donno when we'd hev fetched it. How's all?
If he druv, 'twould be in the box o' the carriage-seat. Nobody ever seen the inside that box, an' 'twas 'lowed there wasn't none could open it, except him an' the Madam." "Oh!" gasped Katharine, leaning forward, breathlessly intent. Naturally such close attention flattered the narrator, who went on with renewed earnestness: "The old Squire an' his son didn't hit it off together very well.
I didn't git home much afore darruk, and me owld horse wasn't more nor in the shtable an' I 'atin' me supper, quiet like, afore Belcher druv up to me house wid his purty man on the seat wid 'im. An' says he: 'Mike Conlin! Mike Conlin!
Druv up to that theer very door as you see theer, in 'er great coach an' four, she did, orders the steps to be lowered, comes tapping into this 'ere very room with 'er little cane, she do, sits down in that theer very chair as you're a-sittin' in, she do, fannin' 'erself with a little fan an' calls for now, what d' ye suppose, sir?" "I haven't the least idea."
Don't deny it, for I know it." Mr Darvell did not attempt to deny it. He only shuffled his feet a little. "An now," continued his wife with increasing vehemence, "you've druv him at last to run away; don't deny it." "He ain't run away," muttered Mr Darvell. "He ain't got pluck enough to do that. He's a coward, that's what he is."
Well, he said: 'Gentlemen, your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you. That's what a President of the United States said to descendants of Mayflower crossers who'd been foully dealt with, and been druv from their substance and their homes, their wheat burned in the stack and in the shock, and themselves butchered or put into the wilderness.
'E destroyed my self-respeck, druv me to drink, broke up my home, and druv my darters on the streets." "This is what comes of undisciplined compassion," observed the gold-spectacled gentleman, glowering at me. "The integrity and virtue of a whole family sacrificed to the gratification of thy altruistic emotions!" "Stand out of the way!" I cried to the burly man; "I wish to leave my own house."
I just wish't you could. Such dogs and cats as she weaves into 'em would have druv' Noah plumb crazy if he had to take 'em into the Ark. Their eyes are just round rings of white, with another round ring of black in the middle " "Aren't rings always round, auntie, dear?" "No, they ain't.
Ould Wounds dressed the woman up to the nines, an' forced all the bettermost folk i' the county to pay their calls an' treat her like one o' the blood; and then, when the proud guests stepped into their chariots an' druv away, he'd fall to, an' lick her across the shoulders wi' his ridin'-whip, to break her sperrit.
Said so at breakfast, didn't I? Silly women always do have to have idees druv into their heads, like nails, 'fore they can clinch 'em. Eunice 'lowed that we'd ought to have a lot more small sticks chopped," answered the man who managed the estate but was presumably managed himself by Miss Maitland.
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