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A new purpose had come into his life, the realisation of a new necessity, and he knew that the fight which he must henceforth make for this child was the same that he must make for himself. "I'se goin' into de Sunday-school-room to take off dat ere widow's finishin' touches," said Mandy, as she came down the steps. "All right!" called Douglas. "Take these with you, perhaps they may help."
"I was over there before noon," said Florence, "and Aunt Julia gave me a quarter and said she'd write a note for me to take to Noble Dill's house when he came home for lunch, and give it to him. She kind of slipped it to me, because grandpa came in there, pokin' around, while she was just finishin' writin' it.
One's arm gets plaguy tired, that's a fact. I often think of a lesson I larnt Jehiel Quirk once, for lettin' his tongue outrun his good manners. "I was down to Rhode Island one summer to larn gildin' and bronzin', so as to give the finishin' touch to my clocks. Well, the folks elected me a hog-reave, jist to poke fun at me, and Mr. Jehiel, a bean pole of a lawyer, was at the bottom of it.
"Just finishin' my house. It looks like more rain, an' I must have the roof good an' tight." "You're not goin' to live here?" "Oh, yes, part of the time." "What's that for?" "To secure our claim. Mother's homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of this land." "What in the world are you goin' to do with it?"
She felt an almost irresistible impulse to run and to hide herself in some dim room of the hotel. But she did not do it; instead, she waited and walked by his side. "Sylvia," he said, "the perils and hardships of the trip we are just finishin' have set me to thinkin' hard." She trembled again. She felt as if he were going to say something that she would not like to hear.
But what was I a-goin' to say? Never shall I forget that wedding. You know as it's a short cut to the church across the farmyard at the back of my house. The parson, he was rather late I suppose he'd been giving himself a finishin' touch and, as it had been very dry weather, he went across the straw and stuff just at the edge like of the yard.
They were all on their feet at this, and they pressed forward to shake Briscoe's hand, congratulating him and each other as though they were already victorious. Mr. Martin bent over Helen and asked her if she minded shaking hands with a man who had voted for Shem at the first election in the Ark. "I thought I'd rightly ort to thank you for finishin' off Kedge Halloway," he added.
"I think I'll go over and see what's keeping them so late in bed," he said, and left the house. "He takes it pretty hard," said Jordan, his scarred face twisted with Satanic mirth, "but don't go rubbin' it into him, Buck, or you'll be havin' a man-sized fight on your hands. I'd jest about as soon mix with the chief as cross Haines. When he starts the undertaker does the finishin'!"
About a week later Scattergood chanced to pass Deacon Pettybone's house, and saw the old gentleman sitting on the front porch, shaping a large piece of wood with a draw-shave. "Afternoon, Deacon," said Scattergood. "Set and rest your legs," said the deacon. "Jest puttin' the finishin' touches on this timber leg of mine." "Sturdy-lookin' leg, Deacon." "Best I ever made.
"Not by a thunderin' sight!" declared Shadrach, vehemently. "The idea!" "Why not? I've sold a good many there." "I don't care if you have. You shan't sell any more. 'Twas all right when you was just a a girl, a South Harnisser like the rest of us, but now that you're a Boston young lady, up to a fin er what-d'ye-call-it er endin' school " "Finishin' school, Shadrach," corrected Mr. Hamilton.
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