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"If you mean Miss Prentice, I wouldn't speak of her in that fashion, Priscilla." "Mormon Joe's Kate, then, if you like that better," replied Mrs. Pantin, nettled. "Or 'Mormon Joe's Kate, either," curtly. "So sorry; I didn't know you knew her. Do you?" Mr. Pantin, who at his own table was given the privilege of taking bones in his fingers, pointed the chop at her.
Chauvelin called in on the Commissary, who assured him that the men were at their post. Thus satisfied, he crossed the Barriere and started at a brisk walk down the long stretch of the Chemin de Pantin. The night was dark. The rolling clouds overhead hid the face of the moon and presaged the storm.
Pantin replied: "I'm sure it's lovely of you to defend her." "Not at all I like her personally," Mrs. Toomey answered stoutly. It was time to lay on the lash; Mrs. Pantin saw that clearly. "Nevertheless, as a friend I wouldn't advise you to take her up to er hobnob with her." Mrs. Pantin did not like the word, but the occasion required vigorous language. "I'm the best judge of that, Prissy."
The parish priest will not allow him to enter his church." As Chevalier had no relations left other than a sister, a working-woman at Pantin, Madame Doulce had undertaken to make arrangements for the funeral at the expense of the members of the company. They gathered round her. She continued: "The Church rejects him as though he were accurst! That's dreadful!" "Why?" asked Romilly.
Pantin entered. "Priscilla, will you do me a favor?" "Abram," reproachfully, "have I ever failed you? What is it?" "The next time you have something going on here I want you to invite Kate Prentice." Mrs. Pantin recoiled. "What!" "Don't squawk like that!" said Mr. Pantin, irritably. "You do it often, and it's an annoying mannerism." "Do you quite realize what you are asking?" his wife demanded.
Relief was paramount to all other emotions, but she vowed as she wept that she would show her gratitude, and would be Kate's friend as she had promised, and she would the feeling of the money in her hand gave her courage defy Prissy Pantin, if necessary. Kate and Mrs. Toomey separated with the warm handclasp of friendship. Mrs.
Wimmen who would run like deers if company came when they wuzn't dressed up slick, they would say the minute they got back into the room, all out of breath with hurryin' into their best clothes, they'd say a pantin' "That old woman ought to be made to go to the poorhouse, to take the pride out of her, pride wuz so awfully, dretfully wicked, and it wuz a shame that she wuz so ongrateful as to want a home of her own."
'Come quick, says he, the sweat standin' thick on him; and he ran me up the bank for it was at the beginnin' of the Glen where the sides were low and there we stood pantin' and starin' flat at each other.
Now that she was alone she could cry comfortably and look as ugly as she liked, so the tears flowed copiously as she stood at the table puzzling over the pattern and cloth. They flowed afresh when she proved beyond the question of a doubt that she would have to piece the under-arm sleeve. Simultaneously she wondered if she could do it so skilfully that Mrs. Abram Pantin would not see the piece.
The Duke of Vicenza reached the Czar's quarters at Pantin early in the morning of the 31st, while he was yet asleep; and recognised, amidst the crowd in the ante-chamber, a deputation from the municipality of Paris, who were waiting to present the keys of the city, and invoke the protection of the conqueror.
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