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She pined, and windered, and went off, torflin', torflin', quiet enough, till a day or two before her flittin', and then she took to rabblin', and sometimes skirlin' in the bed, ye'd think a robber had a knife to her throat, and she used to work out o' the bed, and not being strong enough, then, to walk or stand, she'd fall on the flure, wi' her ald wizened hands stretched before her face, and skirlin' still for mercy.
The "black knob" was discernible there was no mistake barn doors broken off fences burnt up glass out of windows more white crops than green and both lookin poor and weedy no wood pile, no sarse garden, no compost, no stock moss in the mowin lands, thistles in the ploughed lands, and neglect every where skinnin had commenced takin all out and puttin nothin in gittin ready for a move, SO AS TO HAVE NOTHIN BEHIND. Flittin time had come.
The "black knob" was discernible, there was no mistake: barn doors broken off, fences burnt up, glass out of windows; more white crops than green, and both lookin' poor and weedy; no wood pile, no sarse garden, no compost, no stock; moss in the mowin lands, thistles in the ploughed lands, and neglect every where; skinnin' had commenced takin' all out and puttin' nothin' in gittin' ready for a move, SO AS TO HAVE NOTHIN' BEHIND. Flittin' time had come.
When she was a little child flittin' about like a wild creature, and she'd come in drenched to the skin, it was all I could do to catch her and change her clothes. She'd laugh at me. 'We're meant to be wet once in a while, Phrasie, she'd say; 'that's what the rain's for, to wet us.
Out of the corner of my eye, like, and when I looked up 'e wasn't there no more. Flittin' up the 'all like a shadder, 'e was. Oh, lor! It's fairly turned me inside! Oh, lor!" "What rubbish!" said William's mother. "Emma, you must control yourself!" "I went into the larder myself 'm," said cook indignantly, "just before I came in to 'elp with the greenery ornaments, and it was hempty as hair.
All of which hadn't gotten 'em anywhere. Stella was bent flittin' to Altoona. Ten days more and she would be gone. And as Mr. Robert finishes a piece of Stella's blue ribbon mince pies and drops a lump of sugar into a cup of Stella's unsurpassed after-dinner coffee he lets out a sigh.
Had she been older she might have babbled of all this as she lay there, a victim of wrong inflicted on the low a martyr to the folly of the rich, and their injustice toward the poor. But as it wuz, she talked only with her little fever-parched lips of the lovely, cool garden. Oh, they wuz wild dreams, flittin', flittin', in little vague, tangled idees through the childish brain!
I suppose it was right, but none could think there was much good in it, and sa at lang last she made her flittin', and a' was over, and old Dame Crowl was shrouded and coffined, and Squire Chevenix was wrote for.
When she was a little child flittin' about like a wild creature, and she'd come in drenched to the skin, it was all I could do to catch her and change her clothes. She'd laugh at me. 'We're meant to be wet once in a while, Phrasie, she'd say; 'that's what the rain's for, to wet us.
As soon as the orders were placed before them, O'Malley leaned forward. "Sure, an' I saw the strangest sight today," he began. "I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it." "What was it?" "I was flittin' along over the tops o' trees an' the spires o' kirks when I zoom out over a wooded slope with a big cleared field in the middle o' the woods.
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