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Updated: June 28, 2025
'You're a brick, Pawliney, and I guess if you can stand it, I ought to be able to, with you round making the sunshine. I'd be a brute to go and leave you and Lem with it all on your shoulders'; and the honest, good-hearted fellow went in to give Polly a kiss before he started for the mill. Clearing out an old trunk next day Pauline came across a soiled, tumbled envelope.
It's such a comfort to have you in the house. They were standing by the light waggon, which Lemuel had brought round from the barn, ready for Stephen's journey. 'Don't know about the comfort part, Pawliney, said Stephen, with a queer choke in his voice. 'Seems like as if we all depended on you for that commodity. But I'll be as quick as I kin. Good-bye, all of you. Git along, Goliath.
You'll have to be satisfied with your mother, Polly; Pawliney doesn't care anything about you now. Pauline laughed bitterly to herself. 'A frilled peacock, with a ten-dollar outfit! She began the interminable pinafores. The sun swept up the horizon and laughed at her so broadly through the open window that her cheeks grew flushed and uncomfortable.
She thought it must be like Heaven, but not Deacon Croaker's kind; that looked less attractive than ever this morning. As she passed Mrs Harding's chair Polly put up her hands to be taken, but her mother caught her back. 'No, no, Pawliney hasn't got any more use for plain folks, Polly. She's going to do herself proud shoppin', so she can go to Boston and strut about like a frilled peacock.
'No, thank you, I will wait out here. The old man hobbled into the house, and she stood waiting, clothed in her sorrow and shame. 'So Lemuel's ben an' tuk French leave? he said, as he handed her the money. 'Well, well, I allers did say that boy'd be a heart break tew ye, Pawliney. Well, what's gone's forgot. Don't fret over him, Pawliney, he was a bad lot, a bad lot.
I don't see how I'm to get through with such a lot of heedless boys around. What hev you done with him? You just spoil them all with your cossetin'. 'It will all come right, father, said Pauline soothingly. 'Lemuel has gone away for awhile. 'Away! echoed the old man suspiciously. 'Away, Pawliney? Did you know he was going?
'Well, well, wife, said Mr Harding soothingly, 'things won't be as bad as you think for. You can get Martha Spriggs to help with the chores, and the children will soon be older. Young folks must have a turn, you know, and I shall write to Robert to-night and tell him Pawliney will be along shortly that is if you'd like to go, my dear?
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