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The dog was slowly and timidly approaching the bread which Jonas held out towards him. "He's coming," said Josey. "His name is Franco. I wonder how Jonas knew." "Franco, Franco," said Jonas again. "Come here, Franco. Good Franco!" The dog came timidly up to Jonas, and took the bread and butter from Josey's hand, and devoured it eagerly. While he was doing it, Jonas patted him on the head.
He met that summons like a philosopher; rejected rather testily all the mortuary consolations which his nephew-in-law, Josey's husband, thought proper to bring to his bedside; and uttered opinions which scandalised that divine. But as he left Mrs.
There was nothing of incident in the night-ride which followed, demanding description in these pages, except that Leslie found a pleasure he had not anticipated, in Miss Josey's growing drowsy and making a pillow of him eventually.
At this they set up a screeching and fell all together, and the school-master came out of his door. "Boys, boys!" said he. "And the Sabbath too!" As this did not immediately affect them, Mr. Eastman made a charge, and they fled from him then. A long stocking of Josey's was torn, and hung in two streamers round his ankles; and his dangling shoe-laces were trodden to fringe.
"Well, arter all, Josey's nothin' but a meanderin' old idgit!" he thought angrily: "'Ere 'ave I been an' took 'im for a wise man wot would know exackly 'ow to begin and ask for the sparin' of the old trees, and if he ain't gone on the wrong tack altogether and made the poor little lady cry!
His first burst of enthusiasm over, he was somewhat dazed, and a little uncertain as to how he should next proceed with his mission, "Tell 'er as 'ow the Five Sisters be chalked;" growled Bainton in an undertone. But Josey's mind had gone wandering far afield, groping amid memories of the past, and his aged eyes were fixed on Maryllia with a strange look of wonder and remembrance commingled.
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