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I never expected to meet it out of a book. And, fu'thermore, as Miz' Merz would say, I didn't know there was any situation." "I meant the attic. And it's more than a situation. It's a state of mind." Mrs. Brewster had disappeared into the depths of her clothes closet. Her voice sounded muffled.
She th'ows up excuse the figgeh she th'ows up, I say, her foot to kick him out; he tearfully ketches it in his ha-and an' retains it with the remahk, 'I repent! What can his church do? She can do jest one thing!" "What's that?" asked the lady, gathering his dishes without rising. "Why she can make him marry Miz Proudfit!" The lady got very red.
"Well, I don't envy him his job." "Hush," said Margaret. "Here come the folks." In came Mrs. Mayfield and her nephew, with Jim, the preacher, following them. Margaret began industriously to dust a rocking chair. She bade them come in, if it were not too warm, "Mammy has been ironing but the fire's dyin' down. And I do hope she irons yo' clothes to suit you, Miz Mayfield," she added.
She did not quite approve of the hill-top marriage plan. Better would it have suited her purpose to parade the double wedding at Dry Fork, to shine in the presence of neighbors. But Jasper, expecting trouble, was in favor of the speediest method. "Miz Mayfield is the manager of the whole affair," said he.
"This here be Miz Yellett’s gov’ment. Maybe she’d like to pearten up some before she eats." She started the rocking-chair at a gallop, to signify to her daughter that she washed her hands of further responsibility. Being proficient in the sign language of Mrs.
These are uprooted during the inundations, and then carried by the currents all over the country; so that the farmers, in order to be able to plow the soil, are obliged to clear it first from the dead trees. Now we have the Maya verb MIZ to clean, to remove rubbish formed by the body of dead trees; whilst the verb MUSUR means to cut the trees by the roots.
Then she heard Mandy's thin, flatted tones announcing: "This hyer girl wants to git a job in the mill. Miz Bence, she cain't come down this morning you'll have to git somebody to tend her looms till noon; Pap, he's sick, and she has obliged to wait on him so I brung the new gal." "All right," said the man she addressed. "She can wait there; you go on to your looms."
But he was thoroughly afraid of her and made plain his aversion only in his moodier moments by subtly addressing Anthony with remarks intended for her ear: "What Miz Pats want dinner?" he would say, looking at his master. Or else he would comment about the bitter selfishness of "'Merican peoples" in such manner that there was no doubt who were the "peoples" referred to.
"It will be bedtime when we reach the Peckhams." "Wal, if you say so, Miss," said the teamster. "I kin eat as soon as you kin cook the stuff, sure! But I did hone for a mess of Miz' Peckham's flapjacks." Frances, well used to campwork, became immediately very busy. She ran for greasewood and such other fuel as could be found in the immediate vicinity, and started her fire.
"Miz, you shall permit me ze pleazure, and ze 'onar, to open ze dance wiz you," said Gusher, approaching Mattie with his right hand on his heart, and making one of his extensive bows, "You shall do me ze 'onar, I am sure," he continued, and as he raised his head with an air of confidence, expecting to see her extend her hand, his eye fell on the familiar face of a young man standing at her side, engaging her in conversation.
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