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"Ya'as, Malviny, he was tell er minit ergo, 'n' he stepped out to th' lot," replied the old lady, in tones so like the expression of her face, mildly calm, that it was a pleasure to hear her speak. "Ha" ye got thet baby wi' ye?" "Ya'as, 'm." "I wish ye'd put her on my lap. Gra'mammy 'ain't had 'er none ter-day." "Ya'as, 'm, in er minit.
"I know ye're tired holdin' of her, fer she ain't no light weight," and she lifted the little one away. "Heigho, Thaney, air ye erwake yit?" questioned the father. "Erwake! Ya'as, 'n' likely ter be," said the mother. "Thaney's one o' th' setters-up, she is." "Give 'er ter me, Malviny. Don't pappy's gal want er ride on pappy's foot? See 'ere, now!
When all of a sudden I hearn these strange and skairful words comin' like a sharp shower of hail from a clear June sky: "Malviny is goin' to freeze to-night!" There wuz a skairful axent on the word "freeze" that seemed to bring all of Malviny's sufferin's right in front of me.
Sez he, "I bring it round to the cottages every time Malviny freezes; they give me their orders if they want any." "Well," sez I in a faint voice, "I don't want any." Truly I felt that I had had enough chill and shock for one day. Well, Whitfield and Tirzah Ann come in pretty soon and she wuz all enthused with the place.
He stopped and sez, "She is my wife." His indifferent mean madded me and I sez, "Well, you good-for-nothin' snipe you, instead of traipsin' all over the neighborhood tellin' of your wife's state, why hain't you to home buildin' a fire and heatin' soap stuns and bricks, and steepin' pepper tea?" "What for?" sez he, amazed like. "Why, to keep Malviny from freezin'."
I allow the' ain't no dyed-in-the-wool hawss-trader like you goin' to stand up and say anything ag'inst Marthy Gordon while I'm a-listenin'. I'm recollectin' right now the time when she sot up day and night for more'n a week with my Malviny and me a-smashin' the whisky jug acrost the wagon tire to he'p God to forgit how no-'count and triflin' I'd been."
"Malviny Higgins tossed her head an' giv me one uv her witherinest looks, but I'm not one uv the perishin' kind, so I kep on a' musin'. "'It's wonderful what a difference there is between sellin' by the poun' an' the barrel, sez I. 'It's unfortunet that there's only one way to the heavenly country, an' it's a limited express with no Pullman attached.
The recollection was the more embarrassing as he threw his arms around her, and pressed a resounding kiss upon her sallow cheek. "Sakes alive! Mulrady!" she said, exorcising the ghost of a blush that had also been recalled from the past with her housewife's apron, "what are you doin', and company expected every minit?" "Malviny, I've struck it; and struck it rich!"
I don't waste my time thinkin'. Let me have a good look at your face for half an hour and I'll know as much about you as you could tell me in a week. Malviny Higgins has just come back from Bosting with her head full of sykick forces an' mental affinities an' the dear knows what else, but I think it's just a cultivation of our common senses number, five.
Want milk fer breakfus, Mandy Calline? Well, fetch here yer pitcher." A shy "good-mornin" had passed between Mandy Calline and Zekle, and he sauntered up beside her, taking the pitcher, and as they stepped over the bars Father Tyler, hospitably inclined, said: "Take breakfus with us, Zekle? I lay Malviny 'll hev ernuff cooked ter give yer er bite."
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