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"Shall I tell him you'll call again? Or ask him to come up to your house?" Mr. Pepper, who had started to go, now hurried back to the steps. "No, no," he protested, in alarm. "Don't you tell him that. I wouldn't have him come there for no money. Why, Laviny, she " "Oh, Laviny isn't in the secret, then?" Keziah smiled in spite of herself. "Not exactly. That is, not much.
How did Laviny come to let you I mean how'd you come to wear a beaver such a mornin's this?" Kyan removed the silk hat and inspected its limp grandeur ruefully. "I I " he began. "Well, the fact is, I come out by myself. You see, Laviny's gone up to Sarah B.'s to talk church doin's. I I well, I kind of wanted to speak with you about somethin', Keziah, so Oh! I didn't see you, Gracie. Good mornin'."
All the wealth he had come from Aunt Laviny, far's I ever heard. He was her pet and the only thing she ever spent money on, except herself. And you met him! Well, this is a small world. Like him, did you?" "No," said Gertrude, and changed the subject.
"No, sir, she ain't," replied Kyan. "Laviny, she's sort of diff'rent lately. She ain't nigh so so down on a feller as she used to be. I can get out once in a while by myself nowadays, when she wants to write a letter or somethin'." "Oh, she's writing letters, is she?" "Um hm. Writes one about every once in a week. I don't know who they're to, nuther, but I have my suspicions.
Did I stand on my rights as head of the family and tell her she couldn't do it? No, sir-ee, I didn't! I was resigned. I says to her, 'Laviny, I says, 'I won't say that I shan't be turrible lonesome without you. I won't say that I ain't sort of shocked and grieved at our partin' after all these years. But what's my personal feelin's when I compare 'em with your happiness?
Eggs for you, if you want 'em, and ham and fried potatoes for me, and pie " "Pie? For breakfast?" "Sartin. Laviny Marthy, my first wife, always had a piece of pie warmed for me, and I've missed it since. I don't really care two cents for breakfast without pie." "Well now, Caleb, if you think I'm goin' to get up and warm up pie every mornin', let alone fryin' potatoes, and " "See here, Hannah!
"Stay where you are. I guess I'll run right up and ask your sister about this. Perhaps she might " "Ss-sh! ss-sh! don't talk that way, Keziah. Don't! Laviny don't know what I mean. Don't go askin' HER things." "But you said " "I just said I knew where Mr. Ellery goes every Sunday afternoon. He don't know anybody knows, but I do. That's all there is to it. I shan't tell. So " "Tell?
What is he going to do here?" "Keep shoe store, I s'pose likely. Laviny says there's a good openin' for one in this town. I told her the best openin' I could think of for him was the well and I hoped to the nation he'd fall into it. Then she went for me like a dogfish after a herrin' and I never had a taste of vittles till I'd took it all back and said I was glad he was goin' to live with us.
You don't s'pose Didama Rogers and Laviny Pepper and their kind'll wait any longer'n they can help afore they come to see what you look like, do you?" "Well, they must have seen me when I preached here before. I remember " "Mercy on us! that was in meetin'. Meetin's diff'rent. All they could say to you then was how much they liked your sermon.
"Laviny," whispered the shocked Kyan, "do you think that was a er polite thing to say to a parson? That about his turnin' Come-Outer? He didn't make much answer, seemed to me. You don't think he was mad, do ye?" "I don't care if he was," snorted Miss Pepper. "He could tell a body where he was goin' then. Nobody can snub me, minister or not.
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