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After that I sat down, and my wife whispered; "Now you've done it, you silly gawk!" But I was too put about to heed her. In fact I couldn't stand no more religion for the moment, and I rose up and went out, and smoked my pipe behind the family vault of the Lords of the Manor, till the people had all got away after service. And then I came forth and went into the vestry.
"'T would be better fun to know he was a prince and torture him by pretending you did n't care for him," replied Janice. "Men are so teasable." "There's Philemon Hennion doffing his hat to us, Jan." "The great big gawk!" exclaimed Janice. "Does he want another dish of tea?" A question which set both girls laughing. "Janice! Tabitha!" rebuked Mrs. Meredith. "Don't be flippant on the Sabbath."
"Do you mean " She hesitated. "I'd look like a gawk in one of those low-necked outfits. I'd never dare and those tight skirts would sure cripple me." "Oh no, they wouldn't. You'd have to modify your stride a little; but you'd negotiate it. You're equal to anything." "You're making fun of me!" "No, I'm not. I'm in earnest. You're the kind of American girl that can go anywhere and do anything.
"Hoity-toity!" exclaimed Mrs. Paisley. "What man deserves such a title as that, Miss Fielding?" "That Bilby!" exclaimed Ruth. "I just felt it in my bones like Aunt Alvirah that that creature would annoy us again." "Then you are not disappointed," said Helen drily. "Is that the fellow that big gawk in the blue suit?" "No, no! I don't know him," said Ruth.
He was, as Mrs Murchison said, a great gawk of a fellow; he had little adaptability; he was not of those who spend a year or two in the New World and go back with a trans-Atlantic accent, either of tongue or of mind.
After the man he had struck had had his face washed, and his head thoroughly doused with cold water, he recovered rapidly and was soon able to sit up, and then rise weakly to his feet. The rebel looked on wonderingly. "Well, yo'uns is as good doctrin' hurts as ole Sary Whittleton, and she's a natural bone-setter," he said. "Well, don't stand around and gawk,", said Si snappishly. "Help.
"I'm nearly sure that Miss Melody wouldn't suit mother as a companion." "I wouldn't allow her to come anywhere near you," returned Miss Upton hotly. "I s'pose you think she didn't go to the farm. Well, I saw her go myself with that very gawk I tripped up with my umbrella." "Of course you did," laughed Ben; "and pretty mad he was doubtless when she told him she hadn't got a rise out of you.
"Nor she ain't what I bet she would be," said Bainton, heedless as to whether his companion heard him or not; "I've lost 'arf a crown to my old 'ooman, for I sez, sez I, 'She's bound to be a 'igh an' mighty stuck-up sort o' miss wot won't never 'ave a wurrd for the likes of we, an' my old 'ooman she sez to me: 'Go 'long with ye for a great silly gawk as ye are; I'll bet ye 'arf a crown she won't be! So I sez 'Done, an' done it is.
"On the 1st August he sold the buggy and bought the remains of an old sulky said he just wanted to see those green Tennesseans stare and gawk when they saw him come a-ripping along in a sulky didn't believe they'd ever heard of a sulky in their lives.
But I know what papa thinks of you. He says Mary's a gawk, Sophia is as yellow as a duck's foot, and Lenore is only half-witted." The effect of this announcement astonished Beth. The Misses Keene, instead of being interested, all looked at her as if they did not like her, and Anne burst out laughing. When they got in, Anne told Mrs.
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