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"Fellows say she's deuced takin'. That's all. And she's got a fetchin' name eh? Pimpernel." He repeated it twice and began to grin once more, and to bend and straighten his legs in the way which sometimes irritated his wife. Lady Holme was again looking at the card. "Surely it isn't Wednesday?" she said. "Yes, it is. What did you think it was?" "Tuesday Monday I don't know."
He was all for fetchin' the doctor right off, but I told him I cal'lated we could bear with your ravin's for a spell. Did you say what he said you said?" "I'm afraid I did." "Um-hm. Well, it didn't do any good, did it?" "Good? What do you mean?" "I mean he didn't obey orders Colton, that is." "He hadn't when I left." "I thought not.
He was not a moment too soon, for he found Bob Clazie, despite his fortitude and resolution, on the point of abandoning the window, where the smoke had increased to such a degree as to render suffocation imminent. "Can't stand it," gasped Bob, scrambling a few paces down the ladder. "Give us the branch, Bob, I saw where it was in fetchin' out the old woman," said Joe in a stifled voice.
Even the O. C. got down on his knees, and the major, he near got into the grave, but that darned Pilot stood up there getting taller every minute, and goin' on with his prayer, and the boys sayin' 'Amen! that loud and emphatic that I thought he'd take the hint and cut out somethin', but cut out nothin'! Seemed as if his memory was workin' over time, the way he kept a fetchin' up things that he could a easily forgot, and when he comes to the benediction, the whizbangs begin to come.
I'll bet the hull crowd down in Paradise laughed at the idee o' fetchin' me hey?" "Nobody laughs in Paradise now, and nobody except my brother, the doctor, and Sissy's father knows that I've come after you." "Ye'll ride back and say the old man was skeered hey?" "Well, you are, aren't you?" "Yes; I've enough sense to know when I am skeered.
"They're well's common," answered Mrs. Janes grudgingly. "I was put out with Mr. Janes for fetchin' of 'em here, with all I've got to do, an' I own I was kind o' surly to 'em 'long to the first of it. He gits the money from the town, an' it helps him out; but he bid 'em off for five dollars a month, an' we can't do much for 'em at no such price as that.
Downs rose and pushed the supper-table to the wall and drew her chair nearer to the stove. The April nights were chilly. "The folks is late comin' after me," said Mrs. Forder, ostentatiously. "I may's well confess that I told 'em if they was late with the work they might let go o' fetchin' o' me an' I'd walk home in the mornin'; take it easy when I was fresh.
"Ay, amn't I after fetchin' the lamp till ye?" "And a kiss along with it," said the soldier. "Come now, you needn't be coy, there's none to see you." He put his arms round her waist and pulled her towards him. "Mind now, mind, will ye, have you neither sense nor shame? Ye'll have the lamp spilt and the house in a blaze this minute."
Clancy's own particular little rusty kettle was soon singing merrily on the hob, and Judy presently appeared with the griddle cake and a roll of butter of Roseen's own making. "She's afther fetchin' it herself from the dairy," she remarked. "It's herself has the grand hand for butter, God bless her!"
And all the while she was talking to the women who crowded about her. "Yes; we are getting nicely settled, thank you, Mrs. Fulsom all but the attic. Oh, how'd you do, Judge Fulsom?" The big man wiped the perspiration from his bald forehead. "Just been fetchin' in th' ice cream freezers," he said, with his booming chuckle.
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