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Updated: May 8, 2025
The official waved them a last gracious adieu with the hand, and the wagon started. Alongside of the great, hard-mouthed and long-haired horse that drew the cart, walked the commissioner, in order, once in a while, when they had to turn a corner, to seize the bridle and give it a powerful jerk.
Being very hard-mouthed, I thought he was liable to run away with me, and I did not know whether he would run in the opposite direction or after the Indians. The Lieutenant and Geo. Jones said that if he would only run after the Indians they would follow me up closely.
Only when bedtime came did the continued silence of his mother become meaningful. When he was left alone, he cried for her, still clutching his shell. The minister came the next day, and many people, and the minister talked to them about his mother. The two Uncle Bunkers were there, grim, hard-mouthed, glaring, for they hated each other as only brothers can hate.
He would have liked to draw her out, but though she murmured and smiled and seemed to be enjoying what he told her, he remained conscious of that mysterious remoteness which constituted half her fascination. He could not bear women who threw their shoulders and eyes at you, and chattered away; or hard-mouthed women who laid down the law and knew more than you did.
And her conclusion burst forth in an unequivocal, "Ain't it elegant!" "I am delighted you like it," said Mrs. Reverdy with her running laugh. "Won't you sit down?" "I hain't got straightened out yet, after drivin' the horse so long. It does put me in a kind o' cramp, somehow, to drive, 'most allays." "Is the horse so hard-mouthed?" "La! bless you, I never felt of his mouth.
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