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Updated: May 6, 2025
You've no idea, Mr. de Laney, what with the hens settin', and this mis'able dry spell that sends th' dust all over everything and every one 'way behin' hand on everythin' " Her eye was becoming vacant as she wondered about certain biscuits. "I'm sure it must be," agreed Bennington uncomfortably.
"Even when I was poor and had to hit the trail I jest loved them hills, so why ain't it crafty to pike back to 'em now when I don't have to?" His triumphant finale was: "When you come to think about it, a rich man ain't really got any more excuse fur bein' mis'able than a poor man has!"
"You come in here an' help wash these dishes, an' ef I don't soon wake up that mis'able " She did not trust herself further, but tightly compressed her lips and confined her rising choler. "Why, Rebecca Wise," said Phoebe, "you know it will be hours before that man's got sense enough to run this machine. I'm goin' to stop it myself, right now."
Where's 'Firebrand'? Why, where would you expect a man to be that'd burned up a courthouse an' a bank an' salivated a banker? He'd be hidin' out, wouldn't he, you mis'able box-head!
Here's that little mis'able Jimmy Pettijohn " "Little, Susanna?" "Yes, little. Always was an' always will be. His outside has growed big enough in all conscience, but his inside has stayed the size of a pin-point, same as it was born.
He didn't know there was plenty 'n' to spare inside this gate; a great, empty house 'n' full cellar, 'n' hay 'n' stock in the barn, and cowpons in the bank, 'n' two lone, mis'able women inside, with nothin' to do but keep flies out in summer-time, 'n' pile wood on in winter-time, till they got so withered up 'n' gnarly they warn't hardly wuth getherin' int' the everlastin' harvest!
Walden he'll rather say 'is prayers in a pig-stye with a pig for the minister than in our church, since it's been all restored an' conskrated then, as I told you just now, Miss, the Ittlethwaites goes to Riversford where they gits opratick music with the 'Lord be merciful to us mis'able sinners' an' percessions with candles, so our church is mostly filled wi' the village folks, farmer bodies an' sich-like, there ain't no grand people what comes, though we don't miss 'em, for Passon 'e don't let us want for nothin' an' when there's a man out o' work, or a woman sick, or a child what's pulin' a bit, an' ricketty, he's alhis ready to 'elp, with all 'e 'as an' welcome, payin' doctor's fees often, an' takin' all the medicine bills on 'isself besides.
She made no reply, but slipped away to her own room to lay her heavy burden at the feet of the Crucified One. I remember hearing some years ago of a little child who, being reproved for some naughty deed, seemed very unhappy, and was seen to steal into a room close by, where he knelt down and lisped in his baby tones, "Dear God, mis'able." How much there was in that tiny prayer, that one word!
I s'pose the neighbors have been fillin' you full o' tales about my mis'able little savin's an' makin' 'em into a fortune. Well, you won't git any of 'em, I promise you that!" "You have plenty laid away; everybody knows, so what's the use of denying it? Anyway, I don't want a penny of your money, father, so good-bye.
Jes' come in my ole kitchen and see what I's put up fur ye to carry to dem yer mis'able folks." Noll got his overcoat and cap, and followed the old housekeeper into her cozy and comfortable dominion. "Look at dis yer," said Hagar, taking a basket off the table; "jes' as chock full as nuffin ye ken think ob. Dis yer is brof, chicken-brof, an' dat yer bundle is crackers.
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