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Her face and hands and ankles were dirty but her eyes and the pink of her cheeks were clear. "Come on, Marg," said Lydia, "and, Mr. Marshall, please, won't you come too and see how well she does it?" "Run and get into your bathing suit, daughter," said Marshall. "Elviry, want to come?" "No," snapped Elviry.
When Bill took the last quart of meal from the house, as rations for a bear hunt, his patient Marg walked five miles to the store with a skinny old chicken, last of the flock, and offered to barter it for "a dustin' o' salt." There was not a bite in her house beyond potatoes, and "'taters don't go good 'thout salt." In our primitive community there were no trades, no professions.
H. vidua," "Marg' L. de A. in com' E. Spinster," and "Sara B. de C. in comitatu Eb. vidua," are those of the actual culprits and of their residences. Yorkshire is clearly one of the counties meant. It was, moreover, West's own county. The account of Elizabethan exorcism which we have given is necessarily one-sided.
To get what she could of happiness and life to make as little fuss as possible that had been her code; but now, the same restraint that had held Marg from going to the Hollow awhile back, when she thought that, with night, Burke Lawson might disclose his whereabouts, held Nella-Rose! So insistent was the rising argument that it angered the girl. "Why? Why?" her longings and desires cried.
I wish to Gawd I could and then I could stop any tongue what dares to tech my lil' gal's name." "Why can you not show me the letter?" Truedale was towering above the old man. By some unknown power he had got control of the situation. "I have a reason for asking this, Mr. Greyson." "Marg burned it! It was allus Marg or lil' Nella-Rose for Lawson, and Nella-Rose got him!
In his worst moments he never swore before ladies, and in his best he remembered what was due them and upheld their honour and position with fervour. "Lil' Nella-Rose," he was saying as Marg paused outside the door in the dark, "why don't you marry Burke Lawson and settle down here with me?" "He hasn't asked me, father."
He stopped suddenly, however, the moment he had crossed the threshold, stricken with astonishment, as his glance rested upon Mona. He had known that the girl was unusually lovely, but he was not quite prepared to see such a vision of beauty as now greeted his eyes. "Jove! Aunt Marg, isn't she a stunner?" he cried, under his breath.
"There be times of the moon when I declare that no-count Nella-Rose just plain seems possessed; has ter do somethin' and does it! Three months ago, come Saturday, or thereabouts, she took it into her head to worst Marg at every turn and let it out that she was goin' to round up all the fellers and take her pick! She had the blazin' face ter come down here and tell me that!
Pretty Elspet Zohrer, with whom she had contended for the recruiting officer, Pyramus Kogel, was standing opposite to her, by her partner's side, in the same row with charming little Mietz Schiltl, Anne Mirl Woller, her cousin, Marg Thun, and the others.
One Saturday afternoon early in October she was established on the front steps with her carpentry when a surrey stopped at the gate. Little Patience, in a red coat, rolled to her feet. She had been collecting pebbles from the gravel walk. "Mardy!" she screamed. "Baby's Mardy!" and started down the walk to meet Margery and her father. "Darn it," said Lydia to herself. "Hello, Marg! How de do, Mr.
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