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With the incredulous gentry of leisure obeying her commands, Mother scoured the dishes, picked up refuse, then penetrated the sleeping-shack and was appalled by the filth on the floor and by the gunny-sacking mattresses thrown in the crude wooden bunks. "Now we'll tidy this up," she said, "and maybe I can fix up a corner for Mr. Appleby and me sort of partition it off like."
I want you to be big enough to help me make this town worth while." "I'll be as impersonal as cold boiled potatoes. Really. I want to know." "Of course the illiterate ones resent your references to anything farther away than Minneapolis. They're so suspicious that's it, suspicious. And some think you dress too well." "Oh, they do, do they! Shall I dress in gunny-sacking to suit them?" "Please!
Evidently the hermit expected a visitor. He carefully combed his long hair and parted his apostolic beard. When the ninety-eight-cent alarm-clock on a stone shelf announced the hour of five he picked up his gunny-sacking skirts, brushed them carefully, gathered an oaken staff, and strolled slowly into the thick woods that surrounded the hermitage. He had not long to wait.
No ladies in white muslin poured tea; they garbed themselves in simple gunny-sacking, and their repartee had an acrid, personal note. But Mary was glad to know that Archie had that picture, and that he thought of her in such ideal surroundings. On Horse-thief Trail Judith, on her black mare, Dolly, left the Dax ranch after the mid-day meal to go in quest of her brother.
The hermit, as if impelled by a kind of reflex-telepathic action, drew his bare toes farther beneath his gunny-sacking. "I have heard about the romance of your life," said Miss Trenholme, softly. "They have it printed on the back of the menu card at the inn. Was she very beautiful and charming?" "On the bills of fare!" muttered the hermit; "but what do I care for the world's babble?
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