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He says to me yisterday, says he, 'Can't you 'suade yer Miss Sue not to be cleanin' up so much, an' not to go out in de front yard wid dat ole sunbonnet on?" "Well, I'd like to know how things would get done if I didn't do them," exclaimed Mrs. Hollis, hotly. "I suppose he would like me to let things go like the Meeches! The only time I ever saw Mrs.
She and the preacher and Martha all sit around with their noses in books, and never even know that the water-spout is leaking and the porch needs mopping! You can't tell me anything about the Meeches!" Neither of the men tried to do so; they stood silent in the doorway, looking very grave. "For mercy sake! what is that in the front lot?" exclaimed Mrs. Hollis.
Hollis poured forth, and the open disapproval shown by the Meeches; he had winced under Martha's unspoken reproaches, and groaned over the judge's quiet disappointment. "You see, my boy," the judge said one day when they were alone, "I had set my heart on taking you into the office after next year. I had counted on the scholarship to put you through your last year at the academy."
"I've been out to the Meeches' all afternoon," said the doctor, wearily, mopping his face with a red-bordered handkerchief. "Is Martha worse?" asked Sandy, in quick alarm. "No, she's better," said the doctor, gruffly; "she died at four o'clock."
And yet she can sit on her porch and smile at people going by, just like her house was cleaned up. I hate a hypocrite." Sandy had had ample time to watch the Meeches during his long convalescence. He had been moved from the spare room to a snug little room over the kitchen, which commanded a fine view of the neighbors.
In the meantime, the military paraded the street, clearing it of the mob, and preventing their return. In front of the store, and far beyond it, the flour lay half-knee deep a sad spectacle, in view of the daily increasing scarcity of grain. Just before the military and police reached the ground, some one in the crowd shouted "Meeches."
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