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"She 'low she gwine to tak a day off some o' dese days, an' mend up ever'thing in de house." The Colonel glanced around: "Where is Miss Lady?" "Out in de hall, readin' de evenin' paper. Nebber did see dat chile tek so much notice ob de newspaper. Yas, sir, I'll call her." "Any later news of the shooting?" asked the Colonel casually, when she returned. "Yes, Mr.
The deacon considered, puckering his thin lips and cocking a hard old eye. "'Tain't fer us to meddle," he said, righteously. "They's a divine plan in ever'thing, and we hain't able to see what's behind all this here. We'll jest set and wait the outcome." That is what all Coldriver did: it sat and awaited the outcome with ill-restrained enthusiasm, and while it waited it talked.
Now it is just like burying it to tell mother anything; she never tells anybody but father, and grandmother, and grandfather, and Uncle Ed, and Brother Johnson, and she makes them promise never to breathe it to a living soul. But the Super'ntendent's wife is different; she tells ever'thing she hears, and now everybody knows what that teacher said about us."
But when I l'arned that ye was a-teachin' her, and a-doin' whut I had tried my best to do 'n' failed, I let things run along, thinkin' that mebbe ever'thing would come out right, after all.
Soon they were in view of the long, smooth mound of sawdust leading to the squat, rambling saw shed. A moment more and the bunk house, its unpainted clapboards blackened by the rain and sun and snows, showed ahead. A half-mile, then Ba'tiste left the wagon and, Barry following him, walked toward the mill and its whining, groaning saws. "Watch close!" he ordered. "See ever'thing they do.
"The bigges' work I done I used to be terrible 'bout cookin', washin' and ironin', and field work. Ever'thing a man ever done I've done cut wood, cut down sprouts, barn brush I've done ever'thing. "Oh yes, I went to school a whole lot. Got so I could read. Used to write too, but all that done left me. "I'm gwine tell you the truth, lady. I don't know whether the folks is better off free or not.
Didn't you say you wanted to see me on business?" "I did start out wi' that idee," said Teague, slipping into a chair and smiling curiously, "but I disremember mostly what 'twuz about. Ever'thing is been a-pesterin' me lately, an' a man that's hard-headed an' long-legged picks up all sorts er foolish notions.
Against the jeers of the boys he could register vows of future vengeance and console himself with the promise of bloody retribution; but against the endless queries and insinuations of his adult neighbors, he was utterly defenseless. "Looks like she had ever'thing fer the parlor, an' nothin' fer the kitchen," observed Mrs. Snawdor from her third-story window to Mrs.
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