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An' then Richards and the rest come to him an' said as how Seth Stevens was faintin', an' schoolmaster he ran to the crick an' brought water and put over him. An' then I runned to tell you schoolmaster's strong, I guess, stronger nor pappa. I seed him put on his vest, an' Seth Stevens he was settin' up, all blood and water on his face, streaky like; he did look bad. But, Loo say, Loo!
He done had what you might call a faintin' fit if'n he was a person." "Where is he?" Laine's voice was quick, and his eyes swept the room. "What have you done for him?" "He laid himself on the rug in your room, sir, and I give him a little brandy and water.
Every other man seemed to be a-holdin' off, not willin' seemin'ly that she should have one, and I jest thought I would happify her with one." "Wall, why didn't you make her a silver one, or a tin?" sez I. "Or a paper one!" screamed Lodema, who had riz up out of her almost faintin' condition. "That would have been much more appropriate," sez she.
Ivory white wuz the perfect little face, with the long golden hair hangin' back from it, ivory white the little hand and arm hangin' limp at her side. She wuz carried into Katy's room, a doctor wuz soon called. Her arm wuz broken, but he said, after she roused from her faintin' fit, and her arm wuz set he said she would git well, but she mustn't be moved for several days.
An' she s'posed like the child was lost an' she said, 'even if there was a lot of children besides that a one, would she stay at home, contented like, with them as was safe? No, she said, 'that mother wouldn't, she'd start out and go hunt for the one as was lost, even to faintin' along the way, till she found the child or give up an' died.
But the train was late and it was very dark when I left the cars at the Centre and started to walk home." "The lass reached our door," said Sandy, "an' she was aboot faintin' when I lifted her in, and set her doon before the fire. An' noo, as I'm not necessary to ye're happiness," said Sandy with twinkling eyes, "I think I'll bid ye 'good night, and be drivin' hame tae Margaret."
"Say no more," says Terence, "that settles the business," says he; "an' oh! blur and ages is it not a quare thing," says he, "for a dacent respictable man," says he, "to be walkin' about the counthry in the shape iv an ould gandher," says he; "and oh, murdher, murdher! is not it often I plucked him," says he, "an' tundher and ouns might not I have ate him," says he; and wid that he fell into a could parspiration, savin' your prisince, an was on the pint iv faintin' wid the bare notions iv it.
"Well, the faintin' saved Tillie a row with him till he got her home oncet a'ready," the doctor said, as he puffed away at his pipe, his hands in his vest arms, his feet on the table, and a newspaper under them to spare the chenille table-cover. "Yes. Otherwise I don't know how I could have borne to see her taken home by that ruffian to be punished for so heroically defending ME!" "You bet!
Ven I think how she began a screaming as we wos a goin' under them tunnels in the dark, how she kept on a faintin' and ketchin' hold o' me, and how I tried to bust open the door as was tight-locked and perwented all escape Ah! It was a awful thing, most awful! Mr.
Why, I remember the Miss O'Flahertys, Lord Dunshanbo's daughters, when I was a little girl; and 'twas faintin' on the floor they were every other minute and everyone havin' to run and cut their stay-laces. They were fifty, too, if they were a day, so they ought to have had more sense. Why wouldn't Miss Nelly have Quality ways?" "Young ladies aren't like that nowadays," Pat said dolefully.
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