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It's born in her to be contrary just as it is in that hopvine out yonder that you can't train up straight." "All the same, if I were going through fire and water for a girl, I'd be pretty sure to choose one that would make it worth my while at the end. I wouldn't put up with all that hectoring for the sake of anybody that was as sweet to half a dozen other fellows as she was to me."
My dear fellow, I pity you from the bottom of my soul." The beds consisted of a thick layer of hopvine, on the top of which was a coating of straw, and this was covered with a blanket. After a day in the open air, with the aromatic scent of the hops all round them, the happy pickers slept like tops.
Ahead of them there was a scattered group of log cabins, surrounded by little whitewashed palings, and at their approach a decrepit old Negro, followed by a slinking black-and-tan foxhound, came beneath the straggling hopvine over one of the doors and through the open gate out into the road. His bent old figure was huddled within his carefully patched clothes of coarse brown homespun.
So Patty went to live with the doctor, and she had lovely dresses of porcelain to wear, and a servant to stand in statu quo behind her chair at dinner. Hopvine Woodbine. On the 21st, Mr. Hopvine, to Miss Woodbine, both of Marbury. No cards. On the first of June, little Robin, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Redbreast, aged two months, four days, and three hours.
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