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But he don't want his old friends to know how he's come down." "Oh!" exclaimed Richard, a new light breaking in upon him. "Then you were better off once?" "'Deed we were when marm was alive, and sister Mary. When they died dad went on a spree the first and last one and spent what money was left after the bills was paid. Then he sold our stuff and we came here, and I got into the streets."
"From whom else, marm, could they have inherited these limpid eyes, these rosy cheeks, these profuse curls, these comely figures and these musical voices?" The lady continued blushing. "By-the-way, marm," said the statesman, "may I bother you to tell your estimable husband that , the Republican candidate for Governor, called upon him this evening?"
"Well, I'm sure I'm sorry I can't suit you, Marm," turning to the woman, "but I honestly can't, for I've shown you every shoe in my shop. Here, Joel, we'll begin and pack 'em up again," he said, sorting the pairs out from the pile on the counter that ran across the side of the shop, and slinging them by the string that tied them together, over his arm.
"In course, nobody but the old Gineral could do it; but that are gov'rness, marm, as has been a whispering with him in his room and out on it, ever since you've been shut up here. She's been a-doing some of that ere Borger work in a new way, pizening the mind, instead of the stomach.
Wetherley, trying to regulate his hands, said, hastily, "Yes, quite on the gridiron very!" and rapidly moved off it by moving on. "Good evenin', Mrs. Newt," said a voice in another part of the room. "Good-evenin', marm. I sez to ma, Now ma, sez I, you'd better go to Mrs. Kingfisher's ball. Law, pa, sez she, I reckon 'twill be so werry hot to Mrs. Kingfisher's that I'd better stay to home, sez she.
"I won't do it," she said, "I'll go to chokey first " "Look here, marm," said George, in a persuasive voice, and pushing the brandy bottle towards her, "where's the need for you to go to the workhus or to chokey either you with a rich husband as is bound by law to support you as becomes a lady?
With a somewhat anxious look on her face, the woman hurried up stairs to her room. Upon reaching it she rang an imperative peal upon her bell. Mary presently made her appearance, and one quick glance told her that something had gone wrong with her mistress. "Bring me a pitcher of ice-water," curtly commanded Mrs. Montague. "And, Mary " "Yes, marm."
It was a few minutes later when Rhoda said, 'I am fired with zeal, I confess it. Henceforth my single aim shall be to bring Marm Lisa into her lost kingdom and inheritance. But meanwhile, how, oh how shall I master the hateful preliminaries? How shall I teach her to lace her shoes and keep them laced, unless I invent a game for it?
Strannger thar's as brash as a new hound in a b'ar fight, or a young boss in a corn-field, and no safe friend in a forest. Say the word, marm, or if you think it ar'nt manners to speak to a strannger, jist shake your little finger, and I'll follow like a dog, and do you dog's sarvice.
"But I am, really and truly," continued Durward. "Her first husband was a Bellmont, and I am Durward Bellmont, your fourth cousin, it seems." "Jehosiphat! If this ain't curis," exclaimed Joel, grasping Durward's hand. "How do you du, and how is your marm. And do you know Helleny Rivers?"
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