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I ain't heard you had any steady comp'ny. To be sure, some says the Doc likes you pretty good. Is it now, mebbe, the Doc? But no," she shook her head; "Mister's sister Em at the hotel would have tole me. Is it some one where lives around here?" "I don't mind telling you," Miss Margaret graciously answered, realizing that her reply would greatly increase Mr. Getz's sense of defeat. "It is Mr.
The black remained for a moment impassive, statuesque, wrapped in reflection. Then he brightened: "Me know," he said, suddenly springing from the boat. "Me take you my house. Sister show you the way: sister carry mister's things." The Englishman stared for a moment into the eager, intelligent face, strangely handsome, though in ebony.
"Sammy, you go to the barn and tell pop Teacher's here and wants to speak somepin to him. Mister's out back," she explained to Miss Margaret, "choppin' wood." Sammy departed, and Miss Margaret sat down in the chair which Tillie brought to her. Mrs. Getz went on with her work at the sink, while Tillie set to work at once on a crock of potatoes waiting to be pared.
He'd been a restaurant waiter there fur a while and so was throwed in with the best people, and he was, now, that tony and high-minded! Och, I wouldn't hire in town! To be sure, Mister can do what he wants. Well," she added, "it's a quarter till five I guess I'll put the peppermint on a while. Mister's folks'll be here till five."
"You are getting supper very early, aren't you? Miss Margaret asked, with a friendly attempt to make conversation. "No, we're some late. And I don't get it ready yet, I just start it. We're getting strangers fur supper." "Are you?" "Yes. Some of Mister's folks from East Bethel." "And are they strangers to you?" Mrs. Getz paused in her scraping of the fish to consider the question.
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