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But at length Uncle Hiram drove up in the comfortable carry-all; and though his determined spouse detained him more than three-quarters of an hour, sitting beside him like a portly Rhadamanthus, and scanning the horizon for the Caleb who never came, he finally rebelled, shook the reins, and drove off, Aunt Melissa meantime screaming over her shoulder certain vigorous declarations, which evidently began with the phrase, "You tell Kelup "
"Is Kelup Rivers comin' over here to-night?" suddenly asked Aunt Melissa Adams, peering over her gold-bowed glasses, and fixing her small shrewd eyes sharply upon her niece. Amanda did not look up from her fine hemming, but her thin hand trembled almost imperceptibly, and she gave a little start, as if such attacks were not altogether unexpected. "I don't know," she answered, in a low tone.
Green; but the old lady was busily pleating the hem of her apron and then smoothing it out again. Aunt Melissa rocked, and went on: "I says to myself: 'Here they let Kelup carry on the farm at the halves, an' go racin' an' trottin' from the other place over here day in an' day out.
"An' I says to myself, 'If there ain't nobody else to speak to 'Mandy, I will, I says, when I was combin' my hair this mornin'. 'She 'ain't got no mother, I says, 'nor as good as none, an' if she 'ain't spunk enough to look out for herself, somebody's got to look out for her. An' then it all come over me I'd speak to Kelup himself, an' bein' Saturday night, I knew I should ketch him here."
The supper was eaten and the dishes were washed, Aunt Melissa meantime keeping a strict watch from the window. "Is it time for Kelup?" she asked, again and again; and finally she confronted the guilty Amanda with the challenge, "Do you think Kelup ain't comin'?" "I guess not," quavered Amanda, her cheeks scarlet, and her small, pathetic hands trembling.
"I stopped at Kelup Rivers', on the way over, an' they gi'n me a good breakfast, an' last week, that young doctor gi'n me a whole paper o' fine-cut. I ain't a-goin' to meetin'! I'm goin' to se' down under the old elm, an' have a real good smoke." "O Nancy!" Dorcas had no dreams so happy that such an avalanche could not sweep them aside. "Now, do!
See her nose, all wet, like pastur' grass afore day! Now, if I didn't want to live by myself, I'd like to curl me up in a stall, 'side o' her." "'Mandy, you an' Kelup come here!" called Aunt Melissa Adams. She loomed very prosperous, over the way, in her new poplin and her lace-trimmed cape. "Jest look at these roosters! They've got spurs on their legs as long's my darnin'-needle.
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