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We are really very comfortably fixed in Syracuse." "Well, that's lucky," sighed Porky. "We know where he is for a few hours anyhow. Now there wont be any murderin' done while we find out just what's what." "People are beginnin' to thin out. What time is it? Just five? Great Scott! We better be on our way. Where will we meet?" "Le's stay in the Mounted Police Camp tonight.
"David Mason Jeffries," she said "le's me and you go play out on the stairs!" And ever in the empty home a voice goes moaning on and on, and "Where is Mary Alice?" it cries, and "Where is Mary Alice Smith?" And the still belated echo, through the high depths of the old hall overhead, answers quaveringly back, "Oh she has gone home!" But her voice it is silent evermore!
"I kind of hate to think o' your bangein' here and boardin' there, and one old woman mendin', and the other settin' ye down to meals that like's not don't agree with ye." "Lor', now, Mis' Tobin, le's not fuss round no longer," said Mr. Briley impatiently. "You know you covet me same's I do you." "I don't nuther. Don't you go an' say fo'lish things you can't stand to."
I ought er go pull off this yere ole homespun dress an' put on my new cal'ker." "I reckon we ain't got no time ter dress up," said Alston. "We mus' start quick: come 'long. Le's hide our baskits fus' whar' the cotton-stalks is thick." This they did, and then started off at a brisk pace, their flight concealed by the tall cotton-plants. They reached Memphis about eleven o'clock, and found Dr.
Ain't a member that's under fifty, but there that little young thing sets, cheeks red as a beet, an' the elder asks her questions, when he gits to her, as if he was coverin' on her over with cotton wool. Well, last Sabbath old Deacon Pitts le's see, there ain't any o' his folks present, be they? well, he was late, an' he hadn't looked at his lesson besides.
An' now den, Mist' Rosen, le's you an' me talk 'bout de money part of it; 'cause when all is said an' done, dat's de principalest part, ain't it?" The town of Wyattsville was, as the saying goes, all agog.
We can not kill him; and so the story generally proceeds. He selects a very old story always, and generally tells it in about this fashion: I heerd an awful funny thing the other day ha! ha! I don't know whether I kin git it off er not, but, anyhow, I'll tell it to you. Well! le's see now how the fool-thing goes. Oh, yes!
March, this is pufficly safe and haza'dous, seh, I feels that, seh, but I don't like this runnin' away an' hidin'! It's cowardly; le's go down an' face the thing like men! I'm goin' to crawl down back 'ards; thass the skilfullest way." "Halt!" growled John, and something else added "tick-tick." "Oh! Mr. March, faw God's sake! Ef you mus' shoot me, shoot me whah I won't fall so fuh!
But mother was faithful to her vows, and she made quite a decent member of the community of that man before she left off. And, le's see! We was talkin' about cats, warn't we?" "You were, Aunty dear," said Ruth, laughing for the first time in several days. "Hurrah!" said Tom, plunging head-first into his idea. "That's just what I wanted to hear." "What?" demanded Helen.
Well, if Cap'n Ben wants to see foreign countries, I guess he'd be glad to set a spell in the temple. Le's have on another stick that big one there by you. My! it's the night afore Christmas, ain't it? Seems if I couldn't git a big enough blaze. Pile it on. I guess I'd as soon set the chimbly afire as not!" There was something overflowing and heady in her enjoyment.
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