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She hastened to redeem herself from any possible charge of bloodthirstiness. "I don't mean," she said, "that it isn't awful for a man to lose his leg. But men who go through a thing like that and come out conquerors are rather wonderful, Mrs. Flippin." Madge had hold of Mrs. Flippin's hand. She often held it in this quiet hour, and the idea rather amused her.
I think that I have brains enough to write, I am sure I have imagination enough to paint, I have strength enough when I am well to" she laughed, "scrub floors. But I don't write or play or paint or scrub floors I don't believe that there is one thing in the world that I can do as well as Mary Flippin makes biscuits." Her eyes seemed to challenge him to deny her assertion.
Randy laughed, "Oh, if you listen to Mother " "I'm glad you're in time for the Horse Show," Mr. Flippin interposed, "I've got a couple of prize hawgs an' when you see them, you'll say they ain't anything like them on the other side." "Oh, Father " "Well, they ain't. I reckon Virginia's good enough for you to come back to, ain't it, Mr. Randy ?"
"The nurse is here, and a lot of clothes and things just came over for Miss MacVeigh from Hamilton Hill. Mary, I wish you could see them." "I shall in the morning, Mother." "The nurse got her into a satin nightgown before I came up, with nothing but straps for sleeves but she looked like a Princess " "Aren't you tired to death, dear?" Mrs. Flippin laughed. "Me? I like it.
Dalton," said the Judge, "saying they were going. It was rather sudden, and he was sorry. Nice fellow. He liked to come over and look at my birds." Bob Flippin's eyes twinkled. "I reckon he liked to look at a pretty girl " The Judge stared at him. "At Becky?" Flippin nodded. "Didn't you know it?" "Bless my soul." The Judge was unquestionably startled. "But I don't know anything about him.
Flippin rose and made his way across the stream, stepping from stone to stone. "Mother wants you to come right up to the Watermans', Father. Mrs. Waterman is to have an operation, and you are to direct the servants in fitting up a room for the surgeons. The nurse will tell you what to do." Mr. Flippin rubbed his face with his handkerchief. "I don't like to wake the Judge."
But if you take your friendship from him it will break his heart " "Who said I would take my friendship away from Bob Flippin?" "He is afraid you may " "Because you married Mary?" "Yes." The Judge was breathing hard. "Whom does he think I'd go fishing with?" "Do you think he'll want to go fishing with you if you cast off Mary?" The Judge had a vision of life without Bob Flippin.
She treated them as a missionary might treat the questions of a beautiful and appealing savage, who having gone with him to some strange country was constantly interrogatory. "She don't seem to know anything about the things we do," Mrs. Flippin told her husband. "She got the nurse to wheel her out into the kitchen this afternoon, and watched me frost a cake and cut out biscuits.
Some words passed between them, but their exact purport will probably never be known. They were unpleasant, for the attention of a wandering policeman was called to the matter by hearing the old man bawl out: "Don't you come foolin' longer me, nigger. You er flippin' yo' sass at de wrong color.
"He can keep on a-hoping," said Bob Flippin. "I know the Judge." Mary flared. "We can find a little house of our own " Her father laid his hand on her shoulder. "Look at me, daughter," he said, and turned her face up to him. "Our house is yours, Mary," he said. "I don't like the way you did it, and I hate to think what will happen when the Judge finds out.
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