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Updated: June 15, 2025
Hurlbut called in, had her hair cut, hystericky, etc., etc. Myrtle was contented with this statement, and asked no questions, and it was a perfectly understood thing that nobody alluded to the subject in her presence. It followed from all this that the name of Clement Lindsay had no peculiar meaning for her.
"Lysander Sproul, and you a father! This comes of consortin' with the ungodly, and settin' in the chair of the scorner." "Oh, come now, Minervy, I was only quotin'." Lysander's eye twinkled, but he spoke contritely, with generous consideration for his wife's condition, which was imminently delicate. "Oh, you're hystericky, Minervy. You'd best go to bed," observed her mother.
During the present gaiety of the house, however, the poor girl has worn a face full of trouble; and, to use the housekeeper's words, "has fallen into a sad hystericky way lately." It seems that she was born and brought up in the village, where her father was parish-clerk, and she was an early playmate and sweetheart of young Jack Tibbets.
Waitstill's voice trembled a trifle, but other-wise she was quite calm and free from heroics of any sort. The Deacon looked up in surprise. "I guess you're kind o' hystericky," he said. "Set down set down an' talk things over. I ain't got nothin' ag'in' you, an' I mean to treat you right. Set down!"
Hurlbut called in, had her hair cut, hystericky, etc., etc. Myrtle was contented with this statement, and asked no questions, and it was a perfectly understood thing that nobody alluded to the subject in her presence. It followed from all this that the name of Clement Lindsay had no peculiar meaning for her.
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