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"Wall," sez Sister Gowdy she loves to put on Arvilly "wall, you have got one qualificatin', Arvilly!" "Yes, thank the Lord," sez she. And I never asked what she meant, but knew well enough that she spoke of her single state. But Arvilly has had chances, I think. I got home in time to get a good supper, though mebbe I ortn't to say it.
"Those knowledgy folk back along the road who said you were trading yourself out of your patrimony ought to see you put the thing through. If you ever need work, come to my place out in the new Earthly Eden." "I'll have plenty of work of my own," I said; "but maybe, sometime, I may need to earn a little money. I'll remember." I stopped at Independence that night; and so did the Gowdy party.
He and the girl came to the fire quickly, and as they came into view I saw a movement of his arm as if he was taking it from around her waist. "I'm here," said he and his voice sounded harder, somehow. "What's the matter?" "Your wife," said the woman, " she's taken very bad, Mr. Gowdy."
Josiah sez, "Samantha, oh, how I would like a glass necktie it would be so uneek; how I could show off to Deacon Gowdy!" "Wall," sez I, "we can try to buy one, and at the same time I will order a glass polenay." "Oh, no," sez he, "it would be too resky; glass is so brittle it would make you restive."
I was on the road before them in the morning, but they soon passed me, Virginia looking wishfully at me as they went by, and Buck Gowdy waving his hand in a way that made me think he must be a little tight and then they drove on out of sight, and I pursued my slow way wondering why Virginia Royall had asked me so anxiously if I knew any good people who would take in and shelter a friendless girl and not only take her in, but fight for her.
When Buck Gowdy spoke, it was always with a little laugh, and that slight stoop toward you as if there was something between him and you that was a sort of secret the kind of laugh a man gives who has had many a joke with you and depends on your knowing what it is that pleases him. His eyes were brown, and a little close together; and his head was covered with a mass of wavy dark hair.
"Thorkelson and Vandemark," said he, "I have a few words to say to you. I don't find anything in the books covering the case, and am speaking as man to man." "Yes, sir," said I. "Ay hare," said Magnus. "Thorkelson," Gowdy went on, "you have had an ambition to put an end to me. Well, now's your chance, or will be when we get out there where the shooting is going on.
I felt that he wanted to make money out of the Government I loved; and after I had looked round me, and observed persons and things, I felt that he would do it. I felt that I dast not let him go. I knew that he wanted to help them that helped him, without no deep thought as to the special fitness of uncle Nate Gowdy and Ury Henzy for governmental positions.
Only the staid old Hourglass had a word in his behalf a sober editorial on the art conditions actually prevalent. The Hourglass was in some degree Dr. Gowdy's mouthpiece. It had a yearly contract with him for the publication of his sermons they came out every Monday morning and Dr. Gowdy handed over the proceeds to the Board of Foreign Missions.
But the news had excited 'em, and exhilerated 'em so, that they had dropped everything, and hastened right down to tell us, and then they wuz a-goin' back agin immegietly. I, myself, took the news coolly, or as cool as I could, with my temperature up to five or five and a half, owin' to the hard work and the heat. Miss Gowdy also took it pretty calm.
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