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The doctor would be a great catch for that girl, and I think," dropping her voice, "her mother'd be liable to live with 'em." "You're keeping that dark from the doctor, I s'pose?" remarked 'Zekiel. "H'm. You needn't think I go chattering around that house the way I do out here. I've got a great talent, if I do say it, for minding my own business." "Good enough," drawled 'Zekiel.
Artheris," beamed the intruder, "but could I have a look at the stage? Far be it from me to interrupt or any little thing like that," he continued easily, "but my Mother'd have me dragged out and shot if I came home without seeing it!" "Come in, come in, Mr. Hazzard," said Artheris cordially; "you're just the man we want to see! Hazzard. Mr.
"Well there again. ... When I took him down to the country, looking rather like a tramp from a 'Shelter, with an untrimmed beard, and a suit of reach-me-downs he'd slept round the Park in for a week, I felt sure my mother'd carry the silver up to her room, and send for the gardener's dog to sleep in the hall the first night. But she didn't." "I see. 'Women and children love him. Oh, Wade!"
Alida had to struggle hard during a comparatively silent hour to fight down the hope that Holcroft would not listen to Jane's and her own request. As she stepped quickly and lightly about in her preparations for dinner, the girl watched her intently. At last she gave voice to her thoughts and said, "If mother'd only worked round smart as you, p'raps she'd hooked him 'stid er you."
"She sure is; and she must think a lot of you," said Van slowly. "I wish my mother'd ever " "Maybe if you pitched in a little harder here she'd feel " "Oh, cut out the preaching, Bobbie," was the impatient retort. "I've had enough for one day." Bob did not speak, but tore open the letter that had come with the bundle. "Oh, listen to this, Van," he shouted excitedly.
They'd been sweethearts, and there was the child; but the father'd gone his way and the mother'd gone hers, and now there was somethin' between 'em like that 'great gulf' the Bible tells about. Well, they said Dick looked up at Milly like a hungry man looks at bread, and at last he says: "'I'm goin' to make an honest woman of you, Milly.
Mother'd make a fuss if I got home without the door to her ice chest." "Shall we haul the door aboard, sir?" called the petty officer to the bridge. "Yes," nodded the young officer up there. So that came aboard, too, almost in a jiffy. Eph, with a very wide grin on his face, stood regarding the sailors who had curiously gathered around him. "Where are you from?" asked one of the seamen.
Rosenberg's sharp voice from down stairs, "are you at work?" "O, dear!" said Lina, sauntering along to an old chest, and taking her knitting from the top of it; "that's always the way. I thought if you came, mother'd let me play." Dotty understood from this remark why Lina had asked her to go home with her.
There was that nasty, good-for-nothing Joe Casey, 'n Patsy Grogan, and a lot of bad boys from Mackerelville; and they'd caught this poor little ki-oodle and tied a tin pot to his tail, and were trying to set Joe's dog on him, though he's ten times littler." "You naughty, naughty boy! How did you suppose your mother'd feel to see you playing with those ragamuffins?" "Yes, I played 'em!
"I dunno what mother'd say," whispered Hannah Call, whose mother, old and yet regnant as the best housekeeper in town and a repository of all the most valuable recipes, had died that year. "I guess she'd say we was possessed." "We be," said Isabel recklessly. "That's the only fun there is, bein' possessed. If you ain't one way, you'd better be another. It's the way's the only thing to see to."
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