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But, Miz Mayfield, this has all come about so sudden that " Jasper snorted and she scowled at him. "Don't pay no attention to him, Miz Mayfield. Yes, so sudden that I don't hardly know what to say. But Lou is a good child an' thar ain't but one pity about her, an' that is she hain't got much l'arnin', though she did go to school fur two year over at Dry Fork." "She will learn, Mrs.
A secret society? Vengeance? An echo of the war? "Johnny Two-Hawks," she murmured aloud. "And he hopes we'll never meet again!" There was a mirror over the sink, and she threw a glance into it. Very well; if he thought like that about it. Here the doorbell tinkled. That would be the faithful janitor. She ran to the door. "Whadjuh wanta see me about, Miz Conover?" "What has happened to old Mr.
I was tellin' Miz' Beasely that it did seem to be one mistake that Providence must ha' made, ter let that Drugg an' 'Cinda Stone have a gal baby 'specially if 'Cinda was goin' ter up and die like she done and leave the young'un to his care. Seems a shame, too." "Why, mother! That doesn't sound a bit reverent," objected Miss 'Rill, softly. "Nor kind." "Pshaw!" snorted the old lady.
Blaze Jones was perhaps responsible for this report, for Alaire had shown him several thousand eucalyptus saplings and some ornamental rubber-plants. "That Miz Austin is a money-makin' piece of furniture," he once told his daughter Paloma.
Brewster, head and shoulders in a trunk, was trying not to listen and not to seem not to listen to Miz' Merz's recital of her husband's relations' latest flagrancy. "'Families is nix, I says. 'I got my own fam'ly to look out fur, I says. Like that.
Snubbins for an introduction, scratching his head. Mr. Snubbins said, succinctly: "These here gals are from a railroad train that's snowed under down there in the cut. I expect they air hungry, Miz' Morton." "Goodness me! Is that so?" cried the good woman, bustling forward and jerking her spectacles down astride her nose, the better to see the unexpected guests.
They just tuck hold of each other's hands like " "That ain't nothin'," Homer Tibbs broke in. "You'd ort to've saw old Miz Hathaway, that widder woman next door to us, when she heard it. He had helped her to git her pension; and she tuck on worse 'n' anything I ever hear lot worse 'n' when Hathaway died."
"Why, look at the droves of ow own people!" laughed Captain Champion at the laying of the corner-stone. And after it, "Yes, Mr. Fair's address was fi-ine! But faw me, Miz Ravenel, do you know I liked just those few words of John March evm betteh?" "They wa'n't so few," drawled Lazarus Graves, "but what they put John on the shelf." The hot Captain flashed. "Politically, yes, seh!
But she would brook no demonstration, and when Mrs. Barker sought to lead Margaret back for a hiccoughey stroll along the dew-dripping path, she turned upon her with a snap. "Miz Barker, putty soon you'll force me to wring you an' hang you out to dry." And what were the antecedents of this crankish old woman?
She included and then banished it all with one sweeping gesture. "Nothing of the kind. This is this is an anachronism." "Mebbe so," retorted Miz' Merz with equal crispness. "But it's got to be cleaned just the same. Yessir; it's got to be cleaned." They smiled at each other then, the mother and daughter.
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