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Newberry's serious side, Stockdale gathered that she was one of the trimmers who went to church and chapel both. 'I'll go there, said Stockdale, feeling that, in the absence of purely sectarian lodgings, he could do no better. 'She's a little particular, and won't hae gover'ment folks, or curates, or the pa'son's friends, or such like, said the lad dubiously.
"What would you have said, if any one had asked you if you loved my mother that last year of her life, when she was a cripple, and we wheeled her about in a chair you made for her?" "Don't say any more," he said slowly, and took up his hat, and kept turning it round in his hand. "But you'll prevent him getting into trouble with the Gover'ment?" he urged at last.
He would shake his head and answer, in a mild tone of a man consciously repressing a pardonable pride. "I never 'plied, and as long as the retail tobacker trade keeps up like this, I reckon I won't make no pull on the gover'ment treash'ry." And he would puff at his cigar vigorously, beam upon the group that surrounded his chair, and start on one of his long trains of reminiscences.
"Mais, I do not know for sure; but the Abbe Frontone, he and I were snowed up together in that same house which now belongs to the Church, and in the big fireplace, where we sat on a bench, toasting our knees and our bacon, he told me the tale as he knew it. He was a great scholar there is none greater. He had found papers in the wall of the house, and from the Gover'ment chest he got more.
"Mais, I do not know for sure; but the Abbe Frontone, he and I were snowed up together in that same house which now belongs to the Church, and in the big fireplace, where we sat on a bench, toasting our knees and our bacon, he told me the tale as he knew it. He was a great scholar there is none greater. He had found papers in the wall of the house, and from the Gover'ment chest he got more.
Reading, with Joel, was not the idle pastime that more trivial minds find it; a thing, on the contrary, to be gone into with slow spelling, and face knitted up into savage sternness, especially now, when, as he gravely explained to Margret, "in HIS opinion the crissis was jest at hand, and ev'ry man must be seein' ef the gover'ment was carryin' out the views of the people."
"Think so?" asked Trask. "Know so. Scads of it. He brung back samples in his pockets. I've told him time and time again I'd go to his island, and what's more, I would ha', only I don't own all my schooner. It's been busy up to now with gover'ment work hay for the cavalry posts down south.
'And therefore we won't do nothing at all, said Latimer, with complete dispassionateness. 'For my part, I'd sooner be them than we. The clitches of my arms are burning like fire from the cords those two strapping women tied round 'em. My opinion is, now I have had time to think o't, that you may serve your Gover'ment at too high a price.
She admired the girl's courage. She persisted however. "He is one man, and " "He has plenty of men, madame, and His Excellency " "His Excellency and hundreds of men cannot stand, if the Government send soldiers against them." "Why should the Gover'ment do that? They're only going to France; they mean no trouble here." "They have no right to drill and conspire here, my girl."
"I'm not goin' to have you go down there among all them gover'ment folks a tellin' that I didn't know how to treat anybody in my house. You air jest achin' fur that opportunity, but I'll see that you don't git it. Now you set down here an' wait."
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