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"Bah," retorted the hag, with scorn, "as if you didn't know my gran'daughter Sal." "Sal, Mark Frettlby's child?" "Yes, an' as pretty a girl as the other, tho' she 'appened to be born on the wrong side of the 'edge. Oh, I've seen 'er a-sweepin' along in 'er silks an' satins as tho' we were dirt an' Sal 'er 'alf sister cuss 'er."
Gordon's smile was lenient, tolerant, as it always was in such discussions. "Not out loud, I reckon, little woman; leastwise, Buddy don't act as if he'd heard it. As I've said, there's plenty of time. He's only a little shaver yet. Let him try the school in the city for a year 'r so, goin' and comin' on the railroads, nights and mornin's, like the Major's gran'daughter. After that, we might see."
Ye says hit hain't no woman's business, and yit she's Caleb Harper's gran'daughter an' because of her weddin' with me Harpers an' Doanes alike ye won't suffer me ter foller out my own affairs in my own fashion, onmolested!"
"Joe were pretty well liked here, though he had a bit o' his dad's sulkiness. He 'n' Ethel Thompson crazy Will's gran'daughter seemed like to make up together; but even she don't know what drav him off 'nless it were the Cap'n's suddint death ner where he went to." Uncle John seemed thoughtful, but asked no more questions, and McNutt appeared to be relieved that he refrained.
"There's your gran'daughter," the Elder suggested. "Liz?" Tregenza shook his head. "I reckon she don't count." "She'll count enough to get sent to gaol," said the Elder tartly, "if you encourage her to be a thief. And look here, Sam Tregenza, it seems to me you've very loose notions o' what punishment means, an' why 'tis sent.
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