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"Bother, my aunt!" said Drusilla emphatically. "They ain't no bother. They give me something to think about. Now, look at these clothes. I been all mornin' lookin' at 'em and sortin' 'em out. Look at that petticoat. See how soft and warm it is. I wish I'd made it myself. I can sit here and imagine how some mother'd feel makin' a petticoat like that fer her baby.
Joy's head turned over with another whisk. "No, I'm not. I'm just as wide awake as ever I was." Another silence. "Gypsy!" Gypsy jumped. "You're going to sleep." "It isn't any such thing," said Gypsy, sitting up and rubbing her eyes. "I wonder if it isn't most morning," said Joy, in a tone of cheerful indifference. "Most morning! Mother'd say we'd been in bed just ten minutes, I suppose."
If I thought you loved me really, I don't think I'd go, even for Guy; but I know you've only felt kindly to me all along, so I think it is best for you too that I should go, and you will be thankful in the end. Good-bye. You promised mother to see after me, I know, for she told me before she died; well, you've done your best, and mother'd be grateful to you if she could know.
"Ever see a Chinaman ride?" "He'll ride his own horse, then," replied Scott, as he left the room. "Perhaps we'll bring Herrick back with us, Mrs. Van." "He won't leave that piano of his," prophesied Mrs. Van Zandt. "No more than a mother'd leave her baby when there was danger around."
"Because," Billy went on, "Bert Taylor told me in recess that mother'd had a lot, and I told him he lied, and the other boys they laughed and I blacked Bert's eye on him, and I'd have blacked the others too, only Miss Wood came out. I wouldn't tell her what Bert said, and Bert wouldn't, and Sophy Armstrong told her.
Susan, dropping the curtsey which had doubtless been the meed of the Squire's lady, opened the gate for her. "I'm troubled about the poor young lady, m'lady," she said, jerking her thumb backwards towards the cottage. "I wish her mother'd come back. She do keep callin' for her, somethink pitiful." "Leave the gate open, Susan; I expect the doctor immediately."
That was the master's word. I wouldn't dare not do it. If I did, my mother'd make me sorry. So that's settled." Adrian had doubts as to the truth of this statement of the islander's commands. He recalled the words: "as far as you desire." After all, this was not setting a time limit, and it was perfectly natural that anybody should like company through the wilderness.
If she'd bin a real Christian woman she'd bin glad to 've given me the chickens for as sick as man as Si is. Gracious, mother'd give every chicken on the place, if it'd help a sick person, and be glad o' the chance. They're both tough old rebels, anyhow, and their property oughtter be confiscated."
I was satisfied to have a queer creature that followed me like a dog, and I am afraid that if he had lived I should have made him a kind of heathen; but the luck was against me. Teddy's father came on a Sunday morning, and said, "If you don't mind, his mother'd like to 'ave him along to dinner to-morrow. We got a bit o' pork and a horrange spesshal for him."
So I just cleared away the things, made everything shine like a pin, and took my knitting. I'd no sooner got the seam set than I was called to send something up on a contrivance mother'd rigged in the back-entry over a pulley. And then I had to make a red flag, and find a stick, and hang it out of the window by which there were the most passers.
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