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Guffy, who had glanced into the room to be again assured regarding his comfort, and to express her deep regret over the unseemly racket. "The girl has fallen asleep, and I 'm getting tired of hearing so much noise." "No, be hivings, an' ye don't do nuthin' of thet sort, Bob," returned the widow, good-naturedly, busying herself with a dust-rag.
"It's what heaven gives." "Heaven gave you a dust-rag and rheumatism. If they suit you, all well and good. I'm going to see that the world gives Mary what she wants. If a girl can be made pretty Mary's going to be pretty. It's what a woman's got a right to want and I'm going to get it for her." With a violent gesture the boy flung himself from the room and slammed the door behind him.
I ain't objectin' to good housekeepin' at all, but what I say is: Get your dust-rag big enough to wipe up somethin' besides your own dust. The Lord, He's a-housekeepin' too. "So, with that i-dee, I got above the shroud an' I begun on the woman some like she was my kitchen closet in the spring o' the year. "'What's your name? s'I. "''Leven, s'she. "'Leaven, s'I, 'like the Bible? "'Huh? s'she.
As he came down the trail he had broken, with a pack on his back, the man heard her birdlike carol in the clear frosty air. He emptied his chest in a deep shout, and she was instantly at the window, waving him a welcome with her dust-rag. "I thought you were never coming," she cried from the open door as he came up the path. Her eyes were starry in their eagerness.
"'Tis queer weather, Bessie," said I, in gentle reproof, "for cleanin' house." She puckered her brow a sad little frown: but sweet, as well, for, downcast or gay, my sister could be naught else, did she try it. "Is you thinkin' so, Davy?" she asked, pulling idly at her dust-rag. "Ah, well!" she sighed. "Why," I exclaimed, "'tis the queerest I ever knowed!"
"But sure now, Bob, ye mustn't think of playin' yit awhoile. Yer narves are in no fit shape, an' won't be fer a wake yit." He made no direct reply, and she hung about, flapping the dust-rag uneasily. "An' what did ye mane ter be doin' wid the young gyurl?" she questioned at last, in womanly curiosity. Hampton wheeled about on the hard chair, and regarded her quizzingly. "Mrs.
They wus drinkin', and when 't wus all fixed up that 't wus to be at the mouth of the Box Cañon they done tore an old black shirt you got for a dust-rag and made masks out of it and then rode away." "Which way did they go?" "Tow'ds the Box Cañon Miss M'lissy."
I guess I did laugh when I went aloft to clean the lamp and found everything so free and breezy, gulls flying high and little whitecaps making under a westerly. It was like feeling a big load dropped off your shoulders. Fedderson came up with his dust-rag and cocked his head at me. "What's the matter, Ray?" said he. "Nothing," said I. And then I couldn't help it.
As she moved to and fro with an improvised dust-rag, sunshine filled her being. From her lips the joy notes fell in song, shaken from her throat for sheer happiness. This surely was life, that life from which she had so carefully been hedged all the years of her young existence.
With an exclamation of disgust Winston hunted up broom and dust-rag, and gave the gloomy place such a cleansing as it probably had not enjoyed since the house was originally erected. At the end of these arduous labors he looked the scene over critically, the honest perspiration streaming down his face, glancing, with some newly awakened curiosity, into the surrounding dressing-rooms.
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