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Sometimes in the night Luke, sleeping ill and thinking long, lay and listened for possible sounds from Maw's room. Perhaps she cried in the nights. If she only would it would help break the tension for them all. But he never heard anything but the rain steadily, miserably beating on the sodden shingles overhead. It was only Luke who watched the mail box now.
Deacon said I oughtn't to get things from other folks to bring to 'em, but I told him that you and Mis' Pratt and Mis' Mosbey and Mis' Peavey would be mad at me if I just took things from Maw to 'em and slighted they cooking. I pick out the best things everybody makes. Maw's light rolls, Mis' Pratt's sunshine cake and cream potatoes, Cindy's chicken and Mis' Peavey for baked hash.
She was very polite and simpering when, at the gate, Edith said that Mr. Curtis asked her to bring Jacky home. "Won't you come in and be seated?" Lily urged, hospitably. Edith said no; she was sorry; but she must go right back; "Mrs. Curtis is very ill, I am sorry to say." At this moment Jacky came out to the gate; he had two cookies in his hand. He said, shyly: "Maw's is better 'an yours.
And speaking of the Yankees reminds me of another thing I wanted to ask you. Do you reckon aint I always stood your friend yourn and your maw's?" "You need not question me on that point. You know well enough how we feel over your taking me to sea when you didn't need my services any more than you need two noses," said Marcy, for once permitting his indignation to get the better of him.
I suppose and, just lookin' at things from the point of what they'd earned, his maw's folks had stole a good deal, too; or else you can say they were a kind of public charity; old Metternich, by what I can learn, bein' the only one in the whole possetucky of 'em that really did anything to deserve his salary " Mr.
Anne laughed and patted her apt pupil on the head, then she said, "Shall we go in search of your mother and ask about the breakfast table?" Polly jumped up and led the way to the kitchen door where Sary was hard at work. "Sary, can you tell us where my mother is?" asked Polly. "Your maw's just went to th' buttery to skim the milk," said she, giving Polly an opportunity to compare the two terms.
In the long summer days Baby will patter listlessly about the darkened rooms accompanied by his suite, who will carry a feeding bottle Maw's Patent Feeding Bottle just as the Sergeant-at-Arms carries the mace; and, from time to time, little Mister Speaker will squat down on his dear little hams and take a refreshing pull or two.
We explained our presence there, and the boy explained to us that the Bishop and Aunt Debbie were away. The next best house up the road was his "Maw's," he said; so, as Mr. Beeler expected to stay with a friend of his, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy and I determined to see if "Maw" could accommodate us for the night. Mr.
The shoeless, capless, unwashed boy, with his ragged trousers hitched to his shoulders by one suspender, frowned up at the judge through a fringe of tumbled hair. "Nothin'," he said doggedly. "Where do you live?" "I live at home when me maw's there." "Where is she now?" This question caused considerable nudging and side-glancing on the part of Mrs. Snawdor. "She's went to the country," said Dan.
Darwin, yours very faithfully, Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E. May 24, 1862. My dear Mr. In the Edinburgh Owen no doubt praised himself. Mr. Maw's Review in the Zoologist is one of the best, and staggered me in parts, for I did not see the sophistry of parts. I could lend you any which you might wish to see; but you would soon be tired. Hopkins and Pictet in France are two of the best.
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