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Phœbe exclaimed, her eyes flashing. "Why, I like her too," the woman said. She looked at Phœbe in surprise. "You needn't be so touchy. For goodness' sake, don't take to gettin' touchy like some people are! Handling them's like tryin' to plane over a knot in wood; any way you push the plane is the wrong way. This here going to Philadelphy upsets you, I guess.
Got a farm there o' a hundred acres." "Oh, is that so!" "Wot's your handle, young man?" "My name is Joe Bodley. I came from Riverside." "Proud to know you." And Josiah Bean shook hands. "No, I ain't going to stay in Philadelphy. I'm a-going on business fer my wife. A relative left her some property an' I'm a-goin' to collect on it." "That's a pleasant trip to be on," was our hero's comment.
"I guess, mister," said Mr Lathrope, who took quite as much pride as Mr Meldrum in the building indeed had an equal share in planning its construction, although he did not work quite so hard in carrying out the details "I'd a sight rayther have this air shanty than a brown stone front in Philadelphy yes, sir!"
On the instant he liked the red, wholesome face, and the keen, round, blue eyes, the rather opulent figure, the shrewd, whimsical smile, all aglow now with beaming sentimentality, which had from its softest corner called out: "Well, give my love to the girls." "Quaker, or I never saw Germantown and Philadelphy," he continued, with a friendly manner quite without offence.
An' the Widow Maloney she 'tended 'im like a mither, she did." "Did you find out where he came from?" "Wull, he said little aboot 'imsel' at the first, he was a bit afraid to talk wi' strangers, but he tellit, later on, that he cam' fra Philadelphy. He tellit me, in fact," said Billy, in a burst of confidence, "that 'e rin awa' fra th'auld mon, Simon Craft, him that's a-settin' yonner.
He told me that he had heard it was a fine country, and his wish to see it was one reason of his volunteering. "Dey say," said he, "dat Lunnon's a very fine place, sah, bigger dan Philadelphy, and dat a man's skin don' tell agin him among de yaller gals dere." I laughed and said, that in my country people were judged rather by the colour of their hearts than by the hue of their faces.
She let the boy silently glut himself till he glanced round between mouthfuls and said, "It all looks so funny and little, in here, after Philadelphy." Then she said, "But you don't say anything about the New Jerusalem. Didn't it come down, after all?" She smiled, but sadly rather than gladly in her skepticism. "No, mother," the boy answered solemnly.
Expect to navigate to Africy with an alarm-clock and a soundin'-lead, I presume." "Mebbe I'd better let well enough alone," replies the old man. "Africy don't seem as neighborly as Phippsburg and Machiasport. I'll chance it as far as Philadelphy next voyage and I guess the old woman can buy a new dress."
His incarceration had not put him in the least awe. "I'll not come up to your room," Butler said, "and ye'll not get out of Philadelphy with her if that's what ye're plannin'. I can see to that. Ye think ye have the upper hand of me, I see, and ye're anxious to make something of it. Well, ye're not.
"Oh, that's the man," interpolated Martinson. "I've heard of him. He's mixed up in some city embezzlement case over there. I suppose the reason you didn't go to our Philadelphia office is because you didn't want our local men over there to know anything about it. Isn't that it?" "That's the man, and that's the reason," said Butler. "I don't care to have anything of this known in Philadelphy.
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