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"If we could settle what we have been talkin' about, Mrs. Himes," he said, "and if you would give me my answer, then I could git my mind down to commoner things. But swingin' on a hook as I am, I don't know whether my head or my heels is uppermost, or what's revolvin' around me." "Oh, I can give you your answer quickly enough," she said.
The one who talked so well on the emigration question." "Oh, her! Why, I liked her all right. Seems to be a smart woman." "Smart! She's a perfectly splendid girl." "Sure," Jo would agree cheerfully. "But didn't you like her?" "I can't say I did, Eve. And I can't say I didn't. She made me think a lot of a teacher I had in the fifth reader. Name of Himes.
His grumpy silence of other days, his sardonic humour, gave place to hypochondriac complainings and outbursts of fierce temper. Pony had hurt his foot in a machine at the factory and it required daily dressing. Johnnie understood from the sounds which greeted her that the sore foot was being bandaged. "Hold still, cain't ye?" growled Himes. "I ain't a-hurtin' ye.
"I thest cain't go to that old mill to-night, Sis' Johnnie," the little one pleaded. "Looks like I thest cain't." "I could tell Mr. Reardon, and he'd put a substitute on to tend her frames," Lissy spoke up eagerly. "You ask Pap Himes will he let us do that, Sis' Johnnie." Johnnie went past her mother, who appeared to be dozing, and into the dining room, where Himes was.
As I recall her, she must have been a fine woman. But I never thought of Himes as a woman at all. She was just Teacher." "You make me tired," snapped Eva impatiently. "A man of your age. You don't expect to marry a girl, do you? A child!" "I don't expect to marry anybody," Jo had answered. And that was the truth, lonely though he often was. The following spring Eva moved to Winnetka.
This he opened and read as he rode slowly away. Halfway up the first rise, Pap saw him rein in and turn; the old man was still staring when Gray stopped once more at the gate. "See here, Himes," he spoke abruptly, "this concerns you this letter that has just reached me." Pap looked at the younger man with mere curiosity.
"If she thinks as much of him as that," muttered Mr. Rooper. "Now don't git any sech ideas as them into your head, Thomas," said Asaph, quickly. "Marietta ain't a woman to rake up the past, and you never need be afraid of her rakin' up Mr. Himes. All of the premises will be hern and yourn except that room in the garret, and it ain't likely she'll ever ask you to go in there."
The bald head with its little fringe of grizzled curls, bent close to the dark, slant-browed, lustrous-eyed, mutinous countenance; Pap whispered hoarsely for some time, Laurella replying at first in a sort of languid tolerance, but presently with little ejaculations of wonder and dismay. A step on the stair which he took to be Johnnie's put Himes to instant flight.
"No, I didn't," said Asaph, sulkily; "but pegged shoes is too much for any man to stand." And he withdrew from the window, closing the shutters again. "What does this mean?" asked Mrs. Himes, who had also risen. "It means," said Thomas, speaking with difficulty, his indignation was so great, "that your brother is a person of tricks and meanders beyond the reach of common human calculation.
"Why, the man's old enough to be her grand-daddy, let alone her father. Gid Himes the old What in the name of ? Johnnie and you think Himes is mixed up with this young man that's been laywaid him and Buckheath? Lord, what is all this business?"
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