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But none of them openly called him a fool a sort of negative praise not without its value. Nor was this forbearance misplaced as was seen when, along in March, Jared's father ended his fifty unprofitable years of farm routine by dying suddenly and leaving things more or less at loose ends. Farming was not his forte perhaps it is nobody's.
The two men, preparing food at the table, raised their eyes with no surprise, and Captain Jared Brown replied: "Isterin'." Then with a huge clasp knife he opened a can of tomatoes, raised it to his lips and drained the contents. Tomatoes were Jared's only dissipation. "Has he been gone all day?" Janet waited until the empty can was set down. "The better part of it."
Angé getting to a court o' law?" asked Tom Smith. "But Jared ain't never had a daughter married before." Tate nodded his head sagely. "Jared's a deep one, and, taken off his guard, shows he knows more about law and order than any one man I ever let my eyes fall on." "He must be all-fired off his guard," jeered Falstar, "when he talks order of any kind. Where is he, anyway?" "Exactly."
All that she had yearned for; all, all that the books had suggested, she was to see. Mountain peaks and roaring ocean; strange people like, yet so unlike, Gaston. To think that all this was going to happen to her old Jared's little Joyce.
"I ain't going to side with Jared Birkdale when a woman's sense of right has been roused. Jared's wits are the keenest and the cruelest round here, and the poison in his tongue is the deadliest; I guess I know. Are you coming in, child? The bed's made, but you best carry a pitcher of fresh water up with you." "I'll be there in a minute, Isa, and the cracked pitcher's by the well, isn't it?"
"Mother said I might as well spend Uncle Jared's dollar for it, 'cause your mother didn't want you to have it," said Matilda, holding her finger up; "and father bought one for Rosy, too." Then the two little girls took their seats, and presently went forward to be examined in spelling before the committee-men, the doctor, the minister, and all the visiting friends.
Leon had recognized the opportunity as one by which to capture what was left of Jared's independence, and rose to the emergency. "Leave it to me," he said. "Everything will be blooming to-morrow like like a garden er Eden." So now Isa had only Joyce's sore little heart to deal with. "Come, girl," she began at last; "tears never yet unsnarled a knot. Be you, or be you not, going to marry Jude?"
"Could I have been anything like that?" he thought. He refused consideration to such a calamitous possibility, and became a little more grandly formal as he went on listening to Jared's business. "Oh, George!" he presently called across his slab of Mexican onyx; "come here." George came. He was a "drummer": nobody could have supposed for an instant that he was anything else.
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