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Updated: May 17, 2025
It's growing on me, but never mind, it's a good fault, and, anyhow, I can't help it." On that particular morning the McTeagues had risen a half hour earlier than usual and taken a hurried breakfast in the kitchen on the deal table with its oilcloth cover.
The dentist saw himself as a venerable patriarch surrounded by children and grandchildren. So the winter passed. It was a season of great happiness for the McTeagues; the new life jostled itself into its grooves. A routine began. On weekdays they rose at half-past six, being awakened by the boy who brought the bottled milk, and who had instructions to pound upon the bedroom door in passing.
The burro moved its head with a clinking of its bell; and McTeagues mule, dozing on three legs, changed its weight to another foot, with a long breath. Everything fell silent again. "What is it?" muttered the dentist. "If I could only see something, hear something."
They could count on pleasant weather at this time of the year it was May and that particular Tuesday was all that could be desired. The party assembled at the ferry slip at nine o'clock, laden with baskets. The McTeagues came last of all; Ryer and his wife had already boarded the boat. They met the Heises in the waiting-room. "Hello, Doctor," cried the harness-maker as the McTeagues came up.
"How'do?" said this one, bowing gracefully to the McTeagues as they stared at him distrustfully. "How'do? They tell me, Doctor, that you are going out of the profession." McTeague muttered indistinctly behind his mustache and glowered at him. "Well, say," continued the other, cheerily, "I'd like to talk business with you.
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