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Updated: June 22, 2025
But to her husband she said: "You always measure everything by your hopes, Richard, and you never look at the practical side of anything. Ollie is old enough to begin to think how he will earn his bread. I see now how hopeless it is for us to try and make a lawyer of him his heart is not in it.
"I can see what could be done, but I'm helpless." "I'M NOT!" said George. "I've got it all worked out. You see I was doing something useful with my head, if I wasn't always plowing as fast as you thought I should. If you'll back me, if you'll keep books, if you'll handle the money until she is paid back, I know Aunt Ollie will sell enough of this land to build the mill and buy the machinery.
The gloom of night was still in the kitchen; in the corner where the stove stood it was so dark that Ollie had to grope her way, yawning heavily, feeling that she would willingly trade the last year of her life for one more hour of sleep that moist spring morning.
"It was the morning after Joe came to our house to work," said she. "Do you remember what the trouble was about and what said?" "Well, they said a good deal," Ollie answered. "They fussed because Joe didn't get up when Isom called him." Joe felt his heart contract.
Don't you think it would be an act of mercy if I would agree to take some of these superfluities off her hands, rather than have them ruthlessly crushed into half their allotted space? And " "Ollie! Ollie! what an incorrigible little tease you are!" laughingly interposed Miss Minot, as she playfully tweaked the girl's ear. "I wonder how long the things would last you if you had them all!"
"Mosquito bar, you mean?" asked Ollie, throwing him a smile over her shoulder as she passed. "No, I mean wire-screens, everybody's gettin' 'em in now; I've been thinkin' of takin' 'em on as a side-line." "It'll be a cold day in July when Isom spends any money just to keep flies out of his house!" said she. Morgan laughed.
"I'll do more than hit you. You " He turned on Ollie: "I saw you. You've disgraced me! I'll break every bone in your body! I'll throw you to the hogs!" "If you'll hold on a minute and listen to reason, Isom, you'll find there's nothing at all like you think there is," said Joe. "You're making a mistake that you may be sorry for."
Presently he went his way to take up his work, no more words passing between them. Ollie, from under her half raised lids, watched him go, tiptoeing swiftly after him to the door as he went down the path toward the well. Her breath was quick upon her lips; her breast was agitated.
Joe set himself the task of watching, determined then and there that Morgan should not have one dangerous hour alone with Ollie again until Isom came back and lifted the responsibility of his wife's safety from his shoulders.
When Ollie talked of you all, and of what you did at home, I couldn't help feeling she must think that I and all my people belonged to some different race and that when she saw me she would judge me by some petty thing that displeased her, the cut of my skirt, or the way I carried my hands, or something else equally trivial, and that she would use that kind of thing against me and, perhaps, tell Ollie, too.
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