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"The Beemans talk of going there before long, but are not certain about it; and Annette told the rest of us girls all about it as a great secret. Miss Peckham deliberately listened at her window, and then, because she couldn't hear all we said, she tried to make me tell her the whole story. Now, isn't that mean?" "Oh, well, Janice "
"Good evenin', Mrs. Sprowle! I hope I see you well this evenin'. How's your health, Colonel Sprowle?" "Very well, much obleeged to you. Hope you and your good lady are well. Much pleased to see you. Hope you'll enjoy yourselves. We've laid out to have everything in good shape, spared no trouble nor ex" "pense," said Silas Peckham. Mrs.
There was a look of extreme gratification upon his face. "Bless my soul, how quick you were!" he exclaimed. "Why, I've only been home a few minutes. Did you find the umbrella at Mr. Peckham's office?" "Yes, sir; it had been found, and taken care of." "Did Peckham say anything?" "He said you were probably afraid to trust it with him over night, but he smiled when he said it."
Peckham, the confidential clerk, shrugged his shoulders, and said he "guessed it was about so." Hillerton's confidential clerk usually assented to the dictum of his principal. It saved trouble and hurt nobody. Not that Lewis Peckham was without opinions of his own; but he took no special interest in them, and rarely put himself to the trouble of defending them.
Even provincial human-nature sometimes has a touch of sublimity about it. Mr. Silas Peckham had gone a little deeper than he meant, and come upon the "hard pan," as the well-diggers call it, of the Colonel's character, before he thought of it. A militia-colonel standing on his sentiments is not to be despised. That was shown pretty well in New England two or three generations ago.
I guess Miss Peckham, who is always peering through her blinds at what I do, if she had seen me would be sure to say I was misbehaving because I had no mother to make me mind. As though I wouldn't behave just as well for Daddy as I used to for dear mother! "Only I haven't really behaved very well to-day," she went on, reviewing the matter to herself. "I don't care! Yes, I do too!
Coming to himself a little, he thought there might have been some mistake about the items, would like to have Miss Darley's bill returned, would make it all right, had no idee that Squire Venner had a special int'rest in Miss Darley, was sorry he had given offence, if he might take that bill and look it over "No, Mr. Peckham," said Mr.
Some worn-out politician, in that leisurely and amiable transition-state which comes between official extinction and the paralysis which will finish him as soon as his brain gets a little softer, made an admirable Chairman for Mr. Peckham, when he had the luck to pick up such an article. Old reputations, like old fashions, are more prized in the grassy than in the stony districts.
"Well, I wash my hands of you both!" exclaimed Miss Peckham again, and she turned sharply toward the back door the door opposite the one by which Janice had just entered. The matter of washing her hands seemed important, if only a figure of speech. She repeated it angrily as she jerked open the kitchen door.
Don't wait!" So out rolled the chest. Mack was grumbling to himself on the front seat; but if he was armed he did not consider it wise to use any weapon. The man with the rifle had everything his own way. "Now, drive on!" commanded the latter individual. "I've got no use for any of you folks here, and you'll be wise if you keep right on moving till you get to that Peckham ranch. Git now!"
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