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"How little a young girl knows of men around her what satyrs are taking her image to their arms! These people knew he loved me, when I knew not that he ever saw me." She addressed the niece again: "Rhoda, did your uncle say he loved Miss Vesta?" "No'm.
Harold replied: "No, Minervy. I am not a widow; at least I am only a GRASS widow, and they do not wear mourning, you know." "No'm, no'm, I spec's not. But what mus' I git for masef an' does po' orphans!" "Well, you have a black skirt, but have you a waist and hat? And you would better buy a black veil; not crape, it is too perishable; get nun's veiling, and "
I had been directing some letters that I expected to have an opportunity to send that morning. "I beg your pardon," I said, looking up. "Yes, you don't often have such mild winters on the Cape, Mr. Barlow!" "No'm, we don't," said Lovell, "not very often, ahem!" He moved his chair a peg nearer the gun. "Quite a ahem! quite a little fall of snow we had last night, Miss Hungerford."
He felt the dryness. "No'm; I wasn't." "Then if someone in your family was so ill that even you were kept up all night, how does it happen they let you come to school this morning?" "It wasn't illness," he returned, shaking his head mournfully. "It was lots worse'n anybody's being sick. It was it was well, it was jest awful." "WHAT was?" He remarked with anxiety the incredulity in her tone.
A bit of a scare shot through Tom a touch of uncomfortable suspicion. He searched Aunt Polly's face, but it told him nothing. So he said: "No'm well, not very much." The old lady reached out her hand and felt Tom's shirt, and said: "But you ain't too warm now, though."
By this time the other children had become quieter, having seen that nothing much had happened. The janitor was sent for and he put the boxes up again, this time nailing them together so they would not fall over. "But you must not climb on top of them again," said Miss Earle. "No'm, I won't," promised Johnnie.
The surprise was cruel. The runaway's eyes let out a gleam of alarm and then, as I lighted with kindness, filled with rapt wonder at my miraculous knowledge: "Be' be' beside' beside' d-daddy an' m-mammy? D'ain't no mo', m-mist'ess; no'm!" "Yass'm," put in Robelia, "da's all; us fo'." "Just you four. Euonymus, a bit ago I noticed on your sister's ankles some white mud." "Yass'm."
Lemme fetch you a cheer out yere on the gallery." And she made as if to heave her vast comfortable bulk upright. "No'm, set right where you is," begged Sister Menifee. "I ain't got only jes' a few minutes to stay. Things is mighty pressin' with me. I got quite a number of my lady frien's to see to-day an' you happens to be the fust one on de list." "Is tha' so?" inquired Aunt Dilsey.
She put her face in sight a moment to explain, "I have got to be here and give out the lettas till Mr. Fane gets back," and then withdrew it. He tried to lose himself in his book, but her tender voice spoke from time to time beyond the boxes, and Gregory kept listening for Clementina to say, "No'm, there a'n't.
Joy was looking carelessly about the room, scanning the faces of the girls, as if she were trying to find out who was the guilty one. "It is highly probable that the cat tied herself into an apron, opened the desk and shut the cover down on herself," said Miss Cardrew; "we will look into this matter. Delia Guest, did you put her in?" "No'm—he, he! I guess I—ha, ha!—didn't," said Delia.
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