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"I wish you would run over to Craig-Ellachie with that jar of black currants I promised the Grant Girls, Christina," said her mother. "That's the seventeenth time you've been reminded of that," said Jimmie chidingly. "I think John'll have to hitch up the team and take that jar over in the hay wagon," said Uncle Neil, "Christine doesn't seem to be able to manage it."
It was no rare thing for even practised woodsmen to be lost in this wild, wide forest; and at night, in the winter time there was no hope. John Dent had gone out with his fellows, less to find the living than to bring back the dead. Filled with deep pity Olive sat down by the miserable grandmother; but the poor soul refused to be comforted. "John'll go mad clean mad!
Daphne's goin' home and you and me and John'll set down and talk it all over. John ain't no good; he ain't what you call sensible, but he's comfortable. And I got some new things on my mind. "Yes," broke in Daphne. "Miss Doane has been visiting our Settlement." The doctor smiled. "What do you think of it?" Before Drusilla could reply, Daphne said: "What do you think Dr.
"Yes; I've never been here before." "Are you going to the tavern?" "No; I'm going to the house of Mr. John Fox. Do you know him?" "I reckon everybody round here knows John Fox." "I don't know him. He is to be my guardian." "Sho! You'll have a queer guardeen." "Why queer?" "The fact is, old John'll cheat you out of your eye teeth ef he gets a chance. He's about the sharpest man round."
It was only because I knew that we were to stop longer on the way back that I was willing to leave Honolulu at all. So we sailed on, toward Australia. And now I knew that my boy was about setting out on his great voyage around the world. Day by day I would get out the map, and try to prick the spot where he'd be. And I'd think: "Aye! When I'm here John'll be there!
Even after I had done my best to explain the technicalities of male politics, and fancied that I had made some impression, the answer would be: "Well, I'd go, I'm sure, just to oblige you, but then there's the tomatoes to be canned" or, "I'm so behindhand with my darning and patching" or, "John'll be sure to go, and there's no need of two from the same house" and so on, until I was mightily discouraged.
Dost think as John'll be stuck fast for six or seven hundred, or eight hundred? Not John! And happen a bit of money'll come in handy to th' old parson tea-blender, by all accounts. 'Suppose my father made some mistake forgot? 'Ay! said Meshach calmly. 'Suppose he did. And suppose he didna'. 'I believe I'll go and talk to Stanway, said Twemlow, putting the book in his pocket. 'Let me see.
'But, really, uncle, Leonora said as convincingly as she could. 'It's capital that John wants. She saw that all was lost. 'Capital! Meshach sarcastically flouted the word, and he turned with a dubious benevolence to Leonora. 'No, my lass, it isn't, he said, pausing. 'John'll get out of this mess as he's gotten out of many another. Trust him.
An' the linen that's in the house! I've no need to turn a hand to the flax-wheel for ten years if I've no mind. An' ye can all bide your times, an' see what John'll make o' the farm, now he's got where he can have things his own way. His father was always set against anything that was new, an' the place is run down shameful; but John'll bring it up, an' I'm not an old woman yet."
I don't know who you are and I don't know nothing about your trees. Come in and sit down. John'll be in directly." She held the door open, and Barron, impelled by a sudden curiosity, stepped in.
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