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Mela, she kind of thought it would look queer to have two funerals from the same house, hand-runnin', as you might call it, and one of 'em no relation, either; but when she saw how fawther was bent on it, she give in. Seems as if she was tryin' to make up to fawther for Coonrod as much as she could. Mela always was a good child, but nobody can ever come up to Coonrod."
"Do you play teeter in the woods?" she inquired with a fidget, by way of opening the conversation. The boy rolled his eyes towards her and replied in a slow drawl, sometimes they did. Robert Day then put it to him whether he liked moving. "I like to ride the leaders for fawther," replied the boy. "What's your name?" inquired aunt Corinne, directing her inquiry to both.
Mela, she kind of thought it would look queer to have two funerals from the same house, hand-runnin', as you might call it, and one of 'em no relation, either; but when she saw how fawther was bent on it, she give in. Seems as if she was tryin' to make up to fawther for Coonrod as much as she could. Mela always was a good child, but nobody can ever come up to Coonrod."
O'Dowd had a cock's plume in her hat, and a very large "repayther" on her stomach, which she used to ring on all occasions, narrating how it had been presented to her by her fawther, as she stipt into the car'ge after her mar'ge; and these ornaments, with other outward peculiarities of the Major's wife, gave excruciating agonies to Captain Osborne, when his wife and the Major's came in contact; whereas Amelia was only amused by the honest lady's eccentricities, and not in the least ashamed of her company.
"How do you do?" she said, raising her voice still higher, and advancing toward the señora with outstretched hand. "I suppose you're Mrs. Gonsallies." The señora disentangled one arm slowly from her rebozo, and gave the newcomer a large, brown, cushiony hand. "This is my fawther," continued the girl, waving her left hand toward her companion; "sabby?"
Now, listen," she went on, fixing her wide gray eyes on the señora, and speaking in a loud, measured voice. "I am Idy Starkweather. This is my fawther. There! Now! Sabby?" Evidently she considered failure to understand English a species of physical disability which might be overcome by strong concentration of the will. The señora turned a bland, unmoved face upon her son.
Mrs. Dryfoos came down for the ceremony. She understood that it was for Coonrod's sake that his father wished the funeral to be there; and she confided to Mrs. March that she believed Coonrod would have been pleased. "Coonrod was a member of the 'Piscopal Church; and fawther's doin' the whole thing for Coonrod as much as for anybody. He thought the world of Coonrod, fawther did.
"I reckon it ain't agoun' to be anything very bad; and if it is, Coonrod, why you can just git right up and come out." "It will be all right, mother. And I will go, of course." "There, now, I knowed you would, Coonrod. Now, fawther!" This appeal was to make the old man say something in recognition of Conrad's sacrifice.
An' he bought the Slater place, an' there's ten acres of vineyard, an' Barden, he's the real 'state agent over t' Elsmore, you know 'im, he told my fawther they wuz all raisin-grapes, white muscat, didn't he, pappy? an' my fawther here paid cash down fer the place, an' the vineyard's comin' into bearin' next fall, an' Parker Lowe, he has a gov'ment claim on section eighteen, back of our ranch, -maybe you know 'im, he says they're every one mission grapes fer makin' wine.
The sound of the young man's friendly voice recalled and steadied Cos's tipsy remembrance, and he saluted Arthur, as soon as he knew him, with a loud volley of friendly greetings. Pen was his dearest boy, his gallant young friend, his noble collagian, whom he had held in his inmost heart ever since they had parted how was his fawther, no, his mother, and his guardian, the General, the Major?
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