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Updated: May 4, 2025
"Be quiet, Paw," urged Julie weakly, Mrs. Thompson being too frightened to utter a word. "When we have finished with our work, Mr. Thompson, we will leave. Not one second sooner," retorted Elfreda Briggs coolly, as she stepped forward and faced the irate mountaineer. "Then Ah'll throw ye out! The pack of ye git out afore Ah fergits mahself and shoots ye out."
"Better, even, than Ah dared to hope, thank God!" Up and down, over and under, in and out went her needle. "It's such a joy to Henry to have him so." The scissors snipped a thread at the end of a darn, and a new hole displayed its ravage over the yellow surface of the gourd. "It's been going on some months now, bless him! Ah'd like to know how he started in. Ah believe mahself it's Sydney."
"Ah suppose you awe going to be a great awtust?" she said, in friendly banter, when Alma owned to having done the things. "Ah've a great notion to take a few lessons mahself. Who's yo' teachah?" Alma said she was drawing in Mr. Wetmore's class, and Miss Woodburn said: "Well, it's just beautiful, Miss Leighton; it's grand. Ah suppose it's raght expensive, now?
Did I understand you to say that you wanted us to come to dinner?" "Dat's jest it, pertesser. I done 'spress mahself in de most disproportionate language what I knows how, an' yet it seems laik some pussons cain't understand de appreciableness ob simplisosity."
"Ah suppose you awe going to be a great awtust?" she said, in friendly banter, when Alma owned to having done the things. "Ah've a great notion to take a few lessons mahself. Who's yo' teachah?" Alma said she was drawing in Mr. Wetmore's class, and Miss Woodburn said: "Well, it's just beautiful, Miss Leighton; it's grand. Ah suppose it's raght expensive, now?
"Don't speak of it, madam," said the gentleman, "if you can overlook the trouble we awe giving you at such an unseasonable houah." "Ah'm a hoasekeepah mahself," Miss Woodburn joined in, "and Ah know ho' to accyoant fo' everything." Mrs. Leighton led the way up-stairs, and the young lady decided upon the large front room and small side room on the third story.
"Very likely. But who is the man in with Professor Henderson, and what is the wonderful journey he is talking about?" "Dat gen'man in wid de perfesser am also a perfessor." Explained Washington in a whisper. "He's Perfesser Santell Roumann. Now I 'spects I'd better saggasiate mahself inter proximity t' de culinary reservation." "You mean you've got to go to the kitchen?" asked Jack with a smile.
Either I'm growing dull and stupid, or some folks are smarter than they used to be. By the way, have you seen Mrs. Grouse lately?" Jimmy looked very innocent as he asked this. Unc' Billy chuckled until his sides shook. "Do yo' suppose Ah'd tell yo' if Ah had?" he demanded. "Ah reckons Mrs. Grouse hasn't got any mo' aiggs than Ah could comfortably take care of mahself, not to mention Mrs. Possum."
I finds mahself," continued Wash, reflectively, "circumnavigatin' ma mind to de eend dat disher 'sperience we is all goin' t'rough is a hallucination ob de brain. In odder words, we is all climbin' trees an' makin' a noise like de nuts wot grows dere. Do you hear me?" "We hear you," said Jack. "And if you think you're crazy, all right.
And as the railroad magnate and the poorly-clad boy passed from sight of those in the car, the porter moaned: "Oh, lawdy, lawdy! Ah sho has done got mahself in a mess." And the comments of the other passengers, as they prophesied the punishment the railroad president would inflict on his uncivil employee, told him that they agreed with his opinion thoroughly.
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