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Updated: May 7, 2025
"How do you know all this?" "I know; 'cause Katy Black had a girl from New York visiting her, and she was just horrid! All stiff and mincy, and dropping curtseys every two minutes!" "But you're taught to drop curtseys." "Yes, when I enter or leave a room where there are ladies, but that girl was always at it, in school and everywhere." "Sort of a jumping-jack, wasn't she?
She knew she had acted with nobility and discretion, and after that it was very hard to be called a little silly, especially when she had the weight of a burglared missionary-box and about seven-and-fourpence, mostly in coppers, lying like lead upon her conscience. There was a silence, during which cook took away the mincy plates and brought in the treacle-pudding.
Our schoolmaster, composing a form of oath for the new mail-carrier, remarked: "Let me study this thing over; then I can edzact it" a verb so rare and obsolete that we find it in no American dictionary, but only in Murray. A remarkable word, common in the Smokies, is dauncy, defined for me as "mincy about eating," which is to say fastidious, over-nice.
Mooning over your wonderful likeness to the lovely young sister they never had! Trying to kiss your finger tips when you're struggling to brush their teeth! Teasin' you to smoke cigarettes with 'em when they know it would cost you your job!" Impishly, without any warning, she crooked her knee and pointed at one homely square-toed shoe in a mincy dancing step.
There was a silence, during which cook took away the mincy plates and brought in the pudding. As soon as she had retired, Cyril began again. "Of course I don't mean to say," he admitted, "that it wasn't a good thing to get Martha and the Lamb out of the way for the afternoon; but as for Red Indians why, you know jolly well the wishes always come that very minute.
She didn't stop to be mincy. She shot things at him like a man talking to another man who had plenty of sense but not a particle of reason. She gave him the reason. She told him exactly why, and how, and where, and also just WHAT he must do to feel RIGHT toward his neighbours, his family, and his God. No preacher ever talked half so well.
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