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The boys listened, and heard a low, distant moaning sound, something like the deepest rumbling notes of a church organ. "That's the wind comin'," warned the captain. "Yer'd better be hurryin' back." With more hasty good-bys, the lads got under way at once.
I feel to stay in the square an' I find myself hurryin' home 'cause he likes hot biscuits, an' I feel to turn his washstand around an' I leave it where it is for no better reason than as he likes it where it is. It's awful the way a man gets the upper hand of a woman!
When at that tryin' and decisive moment when the fate of our meetin' house wuz, as you may say, at the stake, we heard the sound of hurryin' feet, and the door suddenly opened, and in walked Josiah Allen, Deacon Sypher, and Deacon Henzy followed by what seemed to me at the time to be the hull male part of the meetin' house.
"And there's loads of wise young men on the ocean now, hurryin' over to take our places in the pens. Well, they can have mine! Funny, Mellin: nobody would come up to you or me in the Grand Central in New York and try to sell us greenbacks just as good as real.
"Yes; how are you, Mrs. Timmons?" "I'm as well as common, thanky, Dolly. Drive slower, Joe. What's the use o' hurryin'? They can't do a thing till she gits thar; besides, I want to git at the straight o' this business. Say, Dolly, it ain't true, is it, that you intend to stand up for women goin' to the polls?"
"To think that I went all the way down to Mexico fur a fight," he pursued regretfully, "when I could have set right here at home and had it all in old Virginny. Well, well, that comes of hurryin' the Lord afo' he's ready."
"And I didn't know who you meant," proceeded 'Manda Grier, busy with the cups and saucers, "when you kept hurryin' me up to change it; 'Oh, quick, quick! How long you are! I know he'll get away; I know he will! and I had to just sling on a shawl and rush out after this boneset." "There! Now that shows she's makin' it all up!" cried Statira. "She put on a sack, and I helped her on with it myself.
There was half a dozen steamboat firms telegraphin' and telephonin' the morning after that storm, and I had to leave without waitin' till she got home. There was a wreck off Cape Cod, and that kept me away a week, and I was hurryin' back by way of Boston. And I saw him me hurryin' up Atlantic Avenue to take the train and him headed for the docks. I hailed him.
Most people can't settle their troubles so easily. Well, you'll row us to the end of the lake, I suppose?" "Get right in, ma'am! Might as well start, so's you can take it easy on the trail. Not a bit of use hurryin' when there ain't no need of it, I say. There's lots of times when it can't be helped, without lookin' for a chance."
"Where?" "I don't see as 'tis any business o' yours," answered Captain Cai with vexation; "but, if you want to know, I've to call on my landlady, Mrs Bosenna." "Is that where you're hurryin' just now?" "Well, no: not at this moment," Captain Cai had to confess. "Where, then?" "Oh, look here " "You needn't tell, if you don't want to. But I'm goin' to a funeral at eleven o'clock," said Mr Philp.