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I reckon he'll make a right purty pet fer the kid, an' kind of keep her from frettin' after her canary what died last Sunday." "He don't much resemble a canary, Ephraim," laughed Jim, dropping the belaying-pin. "I reckon he'll fill the bill fine, all the same," said the captain. So the Pup was carried prisoner to Eastport. As it happened, Miss Libby was a child of decided views.
It was not pretty; it was his nature. Happen, poor fellow, he could not help it; but so it was." A maid came in and set the tea-things down; and Mrs. Julaper drew her sad guest over by the arm, and made him sit down, and she said: "What has a man to do, frettin' in that way? By Jen, I'm ashamed o' ye, Master Philip!
Medlock stops in our cottage whenever she goes to Thwaite an' she doesn't mind talkin' to mother before us children, because she knows us has been brought up to be trusty. How did tha' find out about him? Martha was in fine trouble th' last time she came home. She said tha'd heard him frettin' an' tha' was askin' questions an' she didn't know what to say."
"What then do you think it is, Ike?" said the doctor, to whom Ike had been confiding this opinion. "It's frettin'; frettin' after the trail and the Lost River. For thirteen years he's chased that river, and he'll die a-chasin' it." "Well, he'll certainly die if he starts after it in his present condition." "Maybe so, doctor. I wouldn't interdict any opinion of yours.
Cynthia went down to see afterward, and the poor woman's gratitude brought tears to her eyes. "They will be a perfect God-send this winter," she said. "I've been frettin' as to what we should do. I've never begged yet. Well, the Lord is good." Then there came another source of interest. Polly Upham was "keeping company."
There's pertaters to be fried, an' the children's lunches to put up, an' John Alexander's lost his jography I believe that boy'd lose his head if it twarn't glued to his shoulders. There's a button off Stephen's collar, an' Susan Ann wants her hair curled, an' Polly's frettin' to be taken up.
For all this frettin', and chafing, all this turbelence of conflectin' beliefs, opposin' wills, will only polish this jewel. Truth, calm and serene, will endure, will shine, will light up the world." But don't let us stand in that light and yell out, that everybody else's light is darkness; that our light is the only one.
"We ain't cal'latin' to talk very long anyhow," he said, solemnly. "This is the Lord's day, Mr. Bangs." Galusha hastily admitted that he was aware of the fact. He hurried into the hall and up the stairs. As he reached the upper landing he heard the ponderous boom of the light keeper's voice saying, "Martha, I tell you again there's no use frettin' yourself. We've to wait on the Lord.
I didn't want her a comin' here, bringin' her mournin' an' frettin' an' lookin' out for troubles to pester you, Mary Richards, an' I told her I would be over to her place this evenin'. I did tell her, you know, I'd fit that dress for her Mrs. Bradford give her to Christmas, but she just needn't a come here when I told her I'd go there; an' a kill-joy she is an' no comfort to nobody.
Ye see, nobry had no feelin' for me here in village; they all towd me to resign mysel', an' that, an' it were wicked o' me to be ill-satisfied wi' th' A'mighty's will. But, ye see, I wouldn't seem able to give ower frettin' I raly couldn't.
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