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Sumfit; "and do be good creatures, and begin about my Dahly, and where she got that Bumptious gownd, and the bonnet with blue flowers lyin' by on the table: now, do!" Rhoda coughed. "And she wears lavender gloves like a lady," Mrs. Sumfit was continuing. Rhoda stamped on her foot.
Then he shifted to a ballad and the mountains are full of old ballads of Scotland and England, come down from the time of the first settlers, and with local names quaintly substituted for the originals here and there. "She's gwine to walk in a silken gownd, An' ha'e plenty o' siller for to spare," chanted the old man above the little bed he was repairing.
She wore a dismal old black gownd, which had grown too short for her, and too tight; but it only served to show her pretty angles and feet, and bewchus figger. Master, though he had looked rather low for the gal of his art, had certainly looked in the right place. Never was one more pretty or more hamiable.
What Clive did best, she did better than Garrick; but could not do half so many things well; she was a better romp than any I ever saw in nature . Pritchard , in common life, was a vulgar ideot; she would talk of her gownd: but, when she appeared upon the stage, seemed to be inspired by gentility and understanding.
The impression was strong on her mind that the money went into Mr. Lincoln's private exchequer. "I would n't wonder if Misthress Lincoln had a new silk gownd or two this fall," Margaret would remark, sarcastically. The prison rules permitted Mr. O'Rourke to receive periodical communications "from his friends outside." Once every quarter Mr.
You wouldn't think it now, but it used to be jest the color o' a robin's egg or a light-blue 'bachelor's button; and your father he used to stick one o' them in my belt whenever they was in blossom, when I hed the gownd on.
'It's beautiful, said I; 'they be the sweetest things I have had in, this many a day; and they be the wide width. Won't you take some of it for a gownd? 'No, says she, 'I'm set up for cotton gownds. 'Why not buy a bit of it for a apron or two? I said.
"I was a-wonderin'," the dying woman said, "s'posin' as I was willin' to speer this here parple gownd o' mine, rolled onder my pillar I was a-wonderin', Mis' Barrett, ef so bein' as yu'd ondertake ter carl my gal's ringolets, now an' agin, for 'er?" "No," the other said, spiritedly, nobly proof against the magnitude of the bribe. "That'd go agin my conscience, Mis' Green.
"Mother'll lose the sale of the gownd, and then she'll say it's my fault, and baste me for it. What's of her? Why couldn't she ha' come home, as she said?" He set his wits to work to divine what could have "gone of her" alluding, of course, to Rachel. And a bright thought occurred to him really not an unnatural one that she had probably taken the other road home.
Why, she does everything, from takin' care of her crippled half-brother to mendin' t'other one's gownd." "And who is t'other one?" asked J.C., beginning to feel greatly interested in the negro's remarks.
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