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Updated: July 22, 2025
Oh, she hoped she would find the right kind of book! Mother, back on the porch, looked up from her sewing to watch the disappearing figure, and smiled. "We have our little girl back again," she observed to Aunt Nettie. "I wish that O'Neill girl'd move away," Aunt Nettie said. "Missy's a regular chameleon."
Ethan looked at him blankly, and he continued: "Mis' Frome said the new girl'd be at the Flats at five, and I was to take Mattie then, so's 't she could ketch the six o'clock train for Stamford." Ethan felt the blood drumming in his temples. He had to wait a moment before he could find voice to say: "Oh, it ain't so sure about Mattie's going "
Why, it was near day now, and the girl'd be sitting up anyhow for a bit with her sewing. What was she sewing to sit up for all night? A new dress? No, only the skirt. She was to wear it to church in the morning, but wouldn't hear of her mother helping. I brought up my sewing-machine, and said jestingly that a skirt more or less was a mere trifle for a thing like this. Wait, and I'd show them.
She declared that she suffered nothing from fatigue, and that her two miles' walk would not be more than her Sunday journey to church and back. But as she drew near to the house she became uneasy, and once asked to be allowed to pause for a moment. "May be, then," said she, "after all, my girl'd rather that I wouldn't trouble her."
Murray, and it heightened her anxiety. Lord only knew what the girl'd try to do once she got out of their sight! But where the intellectual and argumentative Smythe had failed, what could be expected of these simple mountain folk, who for all their sturdy independence were not a little awed by the superior poise and distinction of their visitor?
I've been good to grandfather, whatever I may have been to John Crumb; and he shouldn't have treated me like that. No girl'd like to be pulled about the room by the hairs of her head, and she with her things all off, just getting into bed. The Squire had no answer to make to this. That old Ruggles should be a violent brute under the influence of gin and water did not surprise him.
"You don't need to believe it if you don't want to," returned Smith, somewhat offended, "but I tell you that girl'd shoot a man in a minute if he got too fresh!" "I believe you're right about that, Smith," agreed the doctor, "so let's you and I be careful that we don't get too fresh."
She had turned miserably pale under Latimer's question. "'Tain't no church of mine!" she said, passionately; "I h'ain't nothin' to do with it. I never belonged to no church anyhow, an' I'm leadin' the kind o' life any girl'd lead that hadn't nothin' nor nobody.
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