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But," she added, her face growing serious again, "the terrible thing is this: If I marry Cliff, I do it just a LITTLE with other things in view. The children, as you say, and the good opinion of the town, and Pa's happiness, and Len's prosperity, and the pleasure of being mistress of the old house, and dear knows what!
She knew Aunt Henrietta's invincible pride of caste and pa's mightiness as a Colossus of cash, and she understood that if she chose Thomas she and her grocer's young man might go whistle for a living. Another day came, Thomas violating the dignity of Nabob Avenue with "The Devil's Dream," whistled keenly between his teeth. "Raised to eighteen a week yesterday," he said.
I should read a lot of books, and find out what was the best thing as was to be had." "What sort of books?" I asked. "Oh! any sort," was the reply; "books such as them down-stairs in your pa's lib'ry; them's downright beautiful books your pa's full of all sorts of wonderful things such as you never heard tell of."
Well, the boys tightened up the cinch on pa's saddle, and pointed out a rangy black steer in a bunch down on the flat, and told pa the game was to cut that steer out of the bunch and rope it, and tie it, and hold up his right hand for the time keeper to record it.
He kept me with him. He married again. He was a barber at Selma, Alabama. He died a barber at Anniston, Alabama. While my mother was in Texas she went to see her mother in Hickory, Alabama. She was talking with a tramp. He had helped my pa in the shop at Selma. Mother took the train and come to pa's and my stepmother's house. I was fourteen years old then and still wore a long shirt-like dress.
We tied a piece of white rubber garden hose to the stove pipe for a tail and went to bed, and when the girl woke us up we laid for Pa and Ma. Pretty soon we heard Pa's window open, and I looked out, and Pa and Ma had their heads and half their bodies out of the window. They had their night shirts on and looked just like the pictures of Millerites waiting for the world to come to an end.
Countin' holes an' puffy air, they pay better than Pa's solid little cakes." Janet was laughing merrily. "Why, Mark!" she said presently, "you've got an idea. Tell your father to make his crullers for the city trade. He'll make his fortune. Put a sign on your gate and teach the boarders what crullers really are!" Mark was not heeding.
He was surprised when Allegheny responded: "Ma and me stand it all right, but it's an awful strain on Pa," said she. "Indeed?" The girl nodded. "He's got more nutty notions." Gray endeavored to learn the nature of Pa's recently acquired eccentricities, but Allie was flushing and paling as a result of her sudden excursion into the audible.
Pa's pretty well; stupid as you left him; doesn't care to talk, but able to eat, and sleep. The doctor says there is nothing at all to hinder his travelling to Liverpool to-day.
I should like to see her do it! Her pa's a deal too wrapped up in somebody else; and before there was somebody else to be wrapped up in, she never was a favorite. Girls are thrown away in this house, I assure you." "You surprise me," cried Polly. "Hasn't Mr. Dombey seen her since " "No," interrupted Miss Nipper. "Not once since.
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