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Morpher, with all sincerity, as she seats herself finally on the shining horsehair sofa. "The children will miss you. I don't believe that any one will do for Risty, Kerg, and Clytie what you have done. But I suppose you know best what's best. Young men like to see the world, and it ain't expected one so young as you should settle down yet. That's what I was telling Clytie this morning.
"Now, then, which on ye'll see the stranger up the creek to Altascar's to-morrow?" There was a general movement of opposition in the group, but no decided answer. "Kin you go, Kerg?" "Who's to look up stock in Strarberry per-ar-ie?"
"Kerg, there!" indicating his brother with a look such as Cain might have worn at the sacrifice. "You lie!" returned Kerg cheerfully. Tryan sprang to his feet, seizing the chair, flourishing it around his head and gazing furiously in the hard young faces which fearlessly met his own. But it was only for a moment; his arm soon dropped by his side, and a look of hopeless fatality crossed his face.
"Now, then, which on ye'll see the stranger up the creek to Altascar's, tomorrow?" There was a general movement of opposition in the group, but no decided answer. "Kin you go, Kerg?" "Who's to look up stock in Strarberry perar-ie?"
"Kerg, there" indicating his brother with a look such as Cain might have worn at the sacrifice. "You lie!" returned Kerg, cheerfully. Tryan sprang to his feet, seizing the chair, flourishing it around his head and gazing furiously in the hard young faces which fearlessly met his own. But it was only for a moment; his arm soon dropped by his side, and a look of hopeless fatality crossed his face.
As he was putting away his books and preparing to leave the schoolhouse, a small voice piped at his side, "Please, sir?" The master turned and there stood Aristides Morpher. "Well, my little man," said the master, impatiently, "what is it? quick!" "Please, sir, me and 'Kerg' thinks that Mliss is going to run away agin."
"Why, sir, she don't stay home any more, and 'Kerg' and me see her talking with one of those actor fellers, and she's with him now; and please, sir, yesterday she told 'Kerg' and me she could make a speech as well as Miss Cellerstina Montmoressy, and she spouted right off by heart," and the little fellow paused in a collapsed condition. "What actor?" asked the master. "Him as wears the shiny hat.
Morpher recalled afterwards, did not, in the undercurrent of uneasiness about Aristides which she felt the whole of that evening, so particularly attract her notice. "I know something," said Lycurgus, during one of these pauses, from the retirement of his corner. "If you dare to Kerg!" said M'liss.
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