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Updated: May 13, 2025
"'Hollins, said Shelldrake, 'Elviry's a good wife and a sensible woman, and I won't allow you to turn up your nose at her. "'I am not surprised, he answered, 'that you should fail to stand the test. I didn't expect it. "'Let me try it on you! cried Shelldrake. 'You, now, have some intellect, I don't deny that, but not so much, by a long shot, as you think you have.
He filled water buckets, chopped wood and fed the chickens, that Amos might be free to take Lydia's place. John Levine sat up two or three nights a week. Kent came out once a week, with a cheery word and a basket of fruit. And at frequent intervals, the Marshall surrey stopped at the gate and Elviry or Dave appeared with some of Elviry's delicious cookery for Lydia and Amos.
"'Hollins, said Shelldrake, 'Elviry's a good wife and a sensible woman, and I won't allow you to turn up your nose at her. "'I am not surprised, he answered, 'that you should fail to stand the test. I didn't expect it. "'Let me try it on you! cried Shelldrake. 'You, now, have some intellect, I don't deny that, but not so much, by a long shot, as you think you have.
She cuddled Florence Dombey in her arms and gave one ear to Margery's question as to the names and personalities of the paper dolls, the other to Elviry's comments. "It ain't so small," sniffed Lizzie. "It's bigger'n anything you ever lived in, Elviry, till Dave sold enough lumber he stole from the Government to start a bank." Elviry was not to be drawn into a quarrel.
Her voice broke into a wail, which was echoed by a sob and a howl from across the street just inside the Pike gate, where Bud and Susie pressed their forlorn little bodies against the palings and looked out on the world with the despair of the incarcerated in their eyes. "Why can't you?" demanded Mother. "Oh, Maw have gone across the Nob to Aunt Elviry's and left Susie May and Bud being punished.
"'Hollins, said Shelldrake, 'Elviry's a good wife and a sensible woman, and I won't allow you to turn up your nose at her. "'I am not surprised, he answered, 'that you should fail to stand the test. I didn't expect it. "'Let me try it on YOU! cried Shelldrake. 'You, now, have some intellect, I don't deny that, but not so much, by a long shot, as you think you have.
Except for its support she would have fallen, and after awhile, hearing Elviry's voice singing off at the back of the house and realizing that she was not watched, she turned weakly and spread her outstretched hands upward in embrace against the rough wood, as a frightened child might throw its arms about a protecting mother.
He ground his teeth and abandoned his intention of immediate entry for there swinging around the turn, with her buxom vigour of stride, came Elviry Prooner. Rowlett scowled as he folded his arms and leaned by the window, and then he saw Dorothy appear in the back door of the room and he cautioned her in a low voice: "Elviry's comin' back. I warns ye not ter make no commotion."
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