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If Lewis wished it had meant Lydy, he did not say so. And, indeed, he said very little upon any subject; Brother Nathan did most of the talking. "I fled from the City of Destruction when I was thirty," he told Lewis; "that was just a year before Sister Lydy left us. Poor Lydy! poor Lydy!" he said. "Oh, yee, I know the world. I know it, my boy! Do you?"
"We will open your window," Jasmine said, gently. "The ball-room is just across the quadrangle, and you will be able to hear perfectly." "Thank you, me lydy," he answered, gratefully, and his eyes closed. "Come," said Jasmine to Stafford. "I will take you where we can talk undisturbed."
She was about to speak to the little, crooked man regarding the name when something occurred to draw her attention from the point of her first surprise. The mare, Ida Bellethorne, coughed. She coughed twice. "Ah-ha, my lydy!" exclaimed the rubber, shaking his head and stepping away from the door of the stall that the mare should not muzzle his clothing. "That's a fine sound wot?"
Only Williams says that lydy must be the lydy the young lydies visited, mysterious like, just afore Christmas and the lydy's our Madame all right and that's what I say my head goes 'round in a circle!" "Your tongue, too, Timothy Harkness. Well, there's lots going to happen now, or my name ain't Hannah Budge.
I kept close to the mare 'ere; the family didn't so much bother me. But there was trouble and ruin and separation and death; and, after all," added the rubber in a lower tone, "for all I know, there was cheating and swindling of the fatherless and orphan, too. But me, I kept close to this lydy 'ere," and he fondled the mare's muzzle again. "It's quite wonderful," admitted Betty.
He said, that sailmaker did, as how Swope got drunk, and beat her." The big Cockney, who had been visibly possessed by a pompous self-importance since his elevation to the dignity of runner, saw fit to interpose his contrary opinion of the Lady of the Golden Bough. Because the man was vile, his words were vile. "Blimme, yer needn't worrit abaht Yankee Swope's lydy, as yer call 'er.
"Trot along, lydy," he said, turning on his heels with all his little dogs in commotion. "Trot along. I'm with yer." Cuckoo heard muffled drums of a dead-march as she walked. She, who had lived a life so shameless, shivered with shame at the thought of what she was going to do. Her treachery laid her out in its winding-sheet.
"The Lord is dealing with her," Eldress Hannah said; "she is in great misery." Brother George nodded. "That is good; He works in a mysterious way she's real miserable, is she? Well, well; that's good. The mercies of the Lord are everlasting," he ended, in a satisfied voice, and began to read again. "Amen! amen!" said Brother William, vaguely. "Poor Lydy!" Brother Nathan murmured.
When Lichtenstein insisted upon having Lady Ellen Treffinger's address James rose to the point of insolence. "It ayn't no use to give it, noway. Lydy Treffinger never has nothink to do with dealers."
The Selden girl still teaches the Brookfield District; Stan Mitchell writes to her, the mail carrier says. No-o; not so bad-looking, exactly in that common sort of way! "Far be it from me to to " "Cavil or carp?" "Exactly. Thank you. Beautiful line! Quite Kipling. Far from me to cavil or carp, Tum-tee-tum-tee-didy, Or shift the shuttle from web or warp. And all for my dark-eyed lydy!
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