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Seems's if that poor woman'd oughter be stopped watchin' for a dead man; tuckerin' herself all out, an' keepin' Ivory an' the boy all nerved up." "I've told Ivory everything I could gether up in the way of information, and give him the names of the folks in Ohio that had writ back to New Hampshire.
Besides, he shews by this, that the other children of Shem, as Elam, Asshur, Lud and Aram, with Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash, went away with Nimrod, and the rest of that company, into idolatry, tyranny and other profaneness; so that only the line from Shem to Eber, and from thence to Abraham, &c. were the visible church in those days. "The brother of Japheth."
Another had what had once been a gaudy calico counterpane, with the pat tern "Rose of Sharon" wrought out in flaming colors. It was now a sadly-bedraggled substitute for a blanket. The others had webs of jeans sewed to gether. The buttons were gone from their garments in many essential places, and replaced by strings, nails, skewers and thorns.
Markham yielded to the friendly voice, and t~ gether the two women reached the gate just as two men hurriedly turned the other corner. "Let me relieve you," said Mrs. Hall. The mother hesitated: "He's so dusty." "Oh, that won't matter. Oh, what a big fellow he is! I haven't any of my own," said Mrs.
'There's mair o' them, I gether, she said, 'and mair remarkable anes, in oor ain coonty nor in ony ither in Scotlan'. I hae mysel seen nane but this. Then she told him how Steenie had led the way to its discovery. By the time she ended, Gordon was really interested chiefly, no doubt, in finding himself possessor of a thing which many men, learned and unlearned, would think worth coming to see.
You can't never tell what idees a woman's got tacked away under her hair from all I c'n gether. I don't p'tend to know nothing about 'em don't want to know he-he! But I guess," he hinted cunningly, "I know as much about 'em as you do hey, Kenneth? You don't seem to chase after 'em none, yourself he-he!"
And now the Lord's word to this people is to gether out again." The younger man had listened in deep dejection. "Yes, it's to be the old story. I saw it coming. The Lord is proving us again. But surely this will be the last. He will not again put us through fire and blood." He paused, and for a moment his quick brown eyes looked far away.
Ae thing I'm set upon, and that is, to deliver my sowl frae hypocrisy, and walk softly a' the rest o' my days! Happy man wad I hae been, had they set me frae the first to caw the pleuch, and cut the corn, and gether the stooks intil the barn i'stead o' creepin intil a leaky boat to fish for men wi' a foul and tangled net! I'm affrontit and jist scunnert at mysel! Eh, the presumption o' the thing!
But I don't like to waste my wisdom, Starbuck. Look, here, don't you know the right to ruin you has come down to me from my folks, like er old spinnin' wheel? It's a fact, and you know it. But I don't want to do it if I can help it. I know I would make yo' daughter a good husband, but frum what I kin gether she wouldn't wipe her feet on me."
Why, I can go out yonder in the yard and gether a bunch o' that purple lilac and jest shut my eyes and see faces I ain't seen for fifty years, and somethin' goes through me like a flash o' lightnin', and it seems like I'm young agin jest for that minute." Aunt Jane's hands were stroking lovingly a "nine-patch" that resembled the coat of many colors.
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