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"That boy's all right, and bound to scare ye a great many times, Marm," at last he said. "Don't you worry a mite, Mrs. Pepper, he'll come out o' it, when he gits ready." But Mother Pepper shook her head as she hung over her boy. "Mammy," said Polly, crawling up to her like a hurt little thing, "I do believe Mr. Tisbett knows," she whispered. "I do, Mammy." But Mrs.
"He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable sofa. This way, please!"
"Not I, marm I am discoursing pretty much from morning till night, when among my own people, though I own that this conversing rather puts me out of my reckoning. Let me get my foot on the planks I love, with an attentive audience, and a good cigar in my mouth, and I'll hold forth with any bishop in the universe." "A cigar!" exclaimed Miss Ring, in surprise.
"I wouldn't blame her much." "Nor I. But here we are. Yonder's Barton's house. Will you get out?" "Yes." Abner, who was sitting on a stump, no sooner saw the team stop than he ran into the house, in some excitement, to tell the news. "Marm," he said, "there's a team stopped, and there's a man and boy gettin' out; 'spect they're coming here." "Lord's sake! Who be they?" "Dunno."
Everybody was startled, but Mary rose from her chair quietly, and, taking the ornament in one hand and Marm Lisa in the other, she came to Helen's side. 'I like to have my shining crown in Miss Helen's hair, she said; 'it is such pretty, curly hair stroke it softly, Lisa; she must wear it this morning to please me, and then I will take it again for my own.
I didn't think much about it at the time, but since then, it's constantly a-coming into my head." Mabel turned deathly pale, and, yielding to a sudden faintness, sat down. "You do not think you cannot think that there was really any neglect?" "I didn't say nothing about neglect, marm there wasn't much of that, any how, for the poor lady never had a minute to herself.
"Please, marm," said he, "where did you get all them things from?" "Oh, sir," answered the landlady, "they were given to me by my poor dear man, who has been dead and gone this many a long year." "May I be bold to ask, and no offence, what is your name, marm?" said Larry.
"You should tell Mr. Bragg, sir," she said, with an appealing look at the captain, "that flattery is a dangerous vice, and one altogether unsuited to a Christian." "It is, indeed, marm, and one that I never indulge in. No one under my orders, can accuse me of flattery."
I have tasted no breakfast yet. Tell the cook to prepare one for me." "Will you have the goodness to trust that ere to Ben Benson, marm, and he'll see that there's no mistake this time.
Tisbett, heartily; "these are the little Pepperses, and they live over to Badgertown, Marm." He said this with an air much as he might have announced, "This is the Lord Mayor of London," if he had been called upon to introduce that functionary. "Oh!" exclaimed Mrs. Green, much impressed, "I'll do my best. Well now, I've got boiled dinner an' a raspb'ry shortcake. Do you think they'd like that?"
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