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Sherd Raines air gum' to do the marryin'. He air the best friend I got. Sherd was a-courtin' the gal, too, but he hevn't got no gredge ag'in ye, 'n' he hev promised to tie ye. Sherd air a preacher now. He hev just got his license. He didn't want to do it, but I told him he had to. We'll hev the biggest weddin' ever seed in these mountains, I tell ye. Any o' yo' folks be on hand?"
I hevn't" she continued, looking down on her lap, and following with her finger and thumb a seam of her gown, "I hevn't so many friends ez slings a kind word for me these times that I disremember them."
And the 'lectric light is burnin' in the mill and in the town, an' the saws are all goin'?" "Yes." "By gracious, yes you can hear 'em! Don't they scrunch the stuff, though!" He laughed a little. "Mr. Devlin an' you and me hev been pretty smart, hevn't we?"
By and by certain familiar whoops and hullohs announced that the enemy was coming. "They hevn't coomed yet, hev they?" we heard the sexton's son say, as he peeped over at our pond. "Noa," was the reply. "It's not gone one yet." "It's gone one by t' church. I yeard it as we was coming up t' lane." "T' church clock's always hafe-an-hour fasst, thee knows." "It isn't!" "It is."
The mountaineer did not sit down, but began pacing the floor behind Clayton. Clayton moved his chair, and Raines seemed unconscious of his presence as with eyes on the floor he traversed the narrow width of the cabin. Y'u hevn't seed me up on the mount 'in lately, hev ye? " he asked. "I reckon ye haven't missed me much.
Hezn't my wife ben with me there many a time, and hevn't both of us prayed an' groaned an' cried in our hearts, not only 'cos we couldn't join in it all ourselves, but 'cos we couldn't send the children either, without their learnin' to hate religion 'fore they fairly know'd what 'twas?
"Why, we'll keep on whirlin' till the power gives out," he replied. "Ye hevn't much time to live now, hev ye?" With a throb of fear felt for the first time, Phoebe looked at the indicator. "It's May, 1874," she said. "Jest a month thirty seconds," he said, sadly. "Copernicus Droop, do you mean it?" screamed Rebecca from the kitchen. "Unless the power gives out before then," he replied.
Roscoe told me afterwards what happened then. "Padre," he said to Roscoe, "are we alone?" "Quite alone, Phil." "Well, I hevn't any crime to tell, and the business isn't weighty; but I hev a pal at Danger Mountain " He paused. "Yes, Phil?" "He's low down in s'ciety; but he's square, and we've had the same blanket for many a day together. I crossed him first on the Panama level.
"I hevn't worn them since father died, thou knowest," she had said to John the day before the wedding, as she stood before him with the gems in her hands, "but tomorrow he will expect me to wear them both for his sake and thine, thou dear, dear lad!" And she looked up at her son and down at the jewels and her eyes were dim with tears. Presently she continued, "Jane was here this afternoon.
And to shut their eyes up, so that they won't suspect nothin', we'll leave a message on one of your pasteboards that you're very sorry not to hev' seen her, drefful sorry, but that you can't wait no longer, and you are off. They'll think you're off for York: you've got York on your cards, hevn't you?" "Yes."
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