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Then, by turns, she arrayed herself in some of the antiquated garments. She rummaged here and there, until she came to the old bureau. "Gran' always keeps that locked," she said. "I guess nobody'd want to steal anything from this old place, though. She needn't be so particular. I wonder where she keeps the key."
"Well, you won't believe it when I tell you; nobody'd believe it. He paid me five hunderd dollars for it five hunderd! It ain't wuth fifty." The artist smiled at him genially. "Well he's satisfied." "But it ain't right," said the man, gloomily. He had returned to his fish. "It ain't right. I can't bear to have Willum such a fool." "I think I'll go for a sail," said the artist.
Well, I did it; but I didn't hurry, I didn't get the flag out till afternoon; somehow I hated to, it always seemed such a low-lived disease, and I was mortified to acknowledge it, and I knew nobody'd come near us for so long, though goodness knows I didn't want to see anybody.
"Take my plain advice, Cap; never try that; our lawyers are lusty fellows upon fees; and the feller'd rot in that old nuisance of a jail afore you'd get him out. The process is so slow and entangled, nobody'd know how to bring the case, and ev'ry lawyer'd have an opinion of his own. But the worst of all is that it's so unpopular, you can't get a lawyer worth seven cents to undertake it.
'They could go in bits of holes and corners, Hazel put in anxiously, 'and nobody'd ever know they were there! And the bird chirrups lovely, fine days. Abel shouted with laughter. 'Tuthree feathers and a beak! he said. 'And the rabbit'd be comforbler a muff. Edward hastily ended the discussion. 'Of course, they shall all come, he said.
But Madame Beattie was tired, though this was the flowering of her later life. "My God!" she said to Lydia one night, before getting up to dress for a lecture, "I'm pretty nearly what is it they call it all in? I may drop dead. I shouldn't wonder if I did. If I do, you take Jeff into the joke. Nobody'd appreciate it more than Jeff." "You don't think the men like him the less for it?" said Lydia.
"No, it an't true," said Willie. "To be sure, you haven't got long curls, and a round face, and blue eyes, like Belle Clinton's, and nobody'd think of setting you up for a beauty; but when you've been running, and have rosy cheeks, and your great black eyes shine, and you laugh so heartily, I often think you're the brightest-looking girl I ever saw in my life: and I don't care what other folks think, as long as I like your looks.
Was there ever such a lark!" For a moment his low laugh of wild glee cut off his speech. "What's more, it's the safest place in the world for us. Nobody'd ever think of our being here!" Mrs. De Peyster stared at Matilda, Matilda stared at Mrs. De Peyster. "And it's just what I needed," continued Mr. Pyecroft in amicable confidence.
"Murder!" cried Helena aghast, and folding her arm a bit more tightly about Gray Lady's trembling body. "Oh! yes'm. A few has been. But nobody'd touch to harm them children. You needn't worry. They've thought it smart to take a hand in the business, that's all. Mattie won't say 'yes' nor 'no' to my askin', but the 'calico's' out of the corral and Long Jim's Belezebub ain't hitched no longer.
Couldn't stay abed when he got there. And Granny Sanders said, Law's sakes! nobody'd ever a found him out ef it hadn't been fer her. Didn't she go all over the neighborhood a-warnin' people? Fer her part, she seed straight through that piece of goods. He was fond of the gals, too! Nothing was so great a crime in her eyes as to be fond of the gals.
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