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She's your relation." "She's a pauper that's hung onto us all after her father'd done his best to ruin us. I've kep' her here a whole year: it's somebody else's turn now." As the shrill words shot out Ethan heard a tap on the door, which he had drawn shut when he turned back from the threshold. "Ethan Zeena!" Mattie's voice sounded gaily from the landing, "do you know what time it is?
And I'm afraid I'll never be really good enough to be religious. Perhaps if Father'd wanted me to be I might be now, but he never cared ... I hope you won't be angry, Aunt Anne, but I didn't like to-night I didn't really. When I was there I thought that soon I'd begin to cry like the others, but it was only because every one else was crying not because I wanted to.
For the matter of that, I guess my father'd about a thousand times go himself than see me and my brothers go; but Father's so fat he can't stoop! You got to be able to stoop to dig a trench, I guess!
I thought he'd yell my head off. 'I found your father'd bought the business, my business, 'n' I was left out in the freezin', icy cold! Susan Clegg, I smashed a table, he says, ''n' two chairs, he says, ''n' I went to see the girl 'n' ask her to wait a little longer, 'n', Fire 'n' Brimstone 'n' Saltpetre, 'f your father hadn't gone 'n' married the girl, my girl!
"I'd like to know what you call it? Why, father'd never miss your tuition money in the world. And I know he'd pay your way if I asked him and told him how bad I felt about your not going." "You're a dear, Bess!" declared Nan, impulsively hugging her friend again. "But you mustn't ask him, honey. It wouldn't be right, and I couldn't accept.
His folks were a low lot, an' father'd have broken every bone o' me. But we used to meet in the orchard 'most every night. Don't look so, brother. I'm past sixty, an' nothin' known; an' now evil an' good's the same to me." "Go on." "Well, the last night he came over 'twas spring tides, an' past the flood. I was waitin' for 'en in the orchard, down in the corner by the Adam's Pearmain.
He sat on the porch with Sally while the moon rose over the desert and stars shone down. Inside, matters of high importance were being battled over with the informality and heat with which practical men get things settled. But Joe wasn't in on it. He said annoyedly, "You'd think my father'd have something to say to me, in all this mess! After all, I have been well, I have been places!
She had found her father and he could see only the candles he sought, and the money in his grasp! She was out in the open with him once more, where she was free to gambol and shout yet he was bound by his harness and heavily laden. "I might just as well be home," she said to Puffy, disheartened. "Wish your father'd let me sharpen his ears," whispered the Man-Who-Makes-Faces.
And I said my father'd have walloped the tar out of me with a single-tree if I'd spoke to him that way." "Aw, but that was only foolin'," William temporized. William was a grizzled man of forty-five, and his wife and grown sons stood in the group, curiously watching Grandfather Tarwater take off his coat and hand it to Mary to hold. "William come here," he commanded imperatively.
"I don't believe his father'd let him," said Polly, wiping away a sly tear; "I know Jasper'd come, if he could." Mrs. Pepper wisely kept her own counsel, simply giving them a kindly caution: "Don't you go to judging him, children, till you know." "Well, he promised," said Joel, as a settler. "Aren't you ashamed, Joel," said his mother, "to talk about any one whose back is turned?
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