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Bill paused, stiffened himself a little, dropped his frank air and drawled out in cool, hard tones: "I might remark that that young lady is, I might persoom to say, a friend of mine, which I'm prepared to back up in my best style, and if any blanked blanked son of a street sweeper has any remark to make, here's his time now!"
"To talk of love," pursued Ezra, glancing at her now and then, "in the sense young people use the word, between persons of the ages of that lady and gentleman, 'ud be frivolous indeed. But I persoom, Miss Blythe, they did not talk so." "I should think not, indeed," said Rachel, with decision. "I should hope not."
"Blessed if it ain't romantic! Not that Mattie cares anything about me now. I know she don't. But it's just her kind way. She wants to cheer me up and let me know I've a friend still. Get up, my nag, get up. I ain't one to persoom on her kindness neither; I know my place. But still, say what you will, it's romantic this sitooation. This is it.
She did not care for him, and anyhow he, Jed, had a little too much pride to ask her, a rich woman, to marry him, a poor man who had lost all caste he ever possessed by taking up tin-peddling. Jed was determined not to "persoom." And, oh, how deliciously romantic it all was! He hugged himself with sorrowful delight over it.
"I I said she goaded me into saying it, Jed slighting and slurring jeering at me because you were going away. I just got mad, Jed and I told her you weren't going that you and I that we were to be married." "Mattie, did you mean that?" he cried. "If you did, I'm the happiest man alive. I didn't dare persoom I didn't s'pose you thought anything of me.
Then he started again: "But about The Pilot I don't want to persoom but if you don't mind, we'd like to have him stay in fact, don't see how we kin do without him look at all the boys here; he's just getting his work in and is bringin' 'em right along, and, God Almighty, if you take him away it might be a good thing for himself, but for us oh, God," the voice quivered and was silent "Amen."
Sez I, "Hush, Josiah! she has probably overslept herself, and come out in a hurry, mebby to look for some herbs or sunthin'. I persoom one of her childern are sick, and she sprung right up out of bed, and come out to get some weather-wort, or catnip, or sunthin'." And as I spoke I drawed Josiah down a side path away from her.
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