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The Indians, standing on the doorway, also fell on their knees, and a low-whispered murmur was heard. For a moment Aunt Ri looked at the kneeling figures with contempt. "Oh, Lawd!" she thought, "the pore heathen, prayin' ter a picter!" Then a sudden revulsion seized her.
But George's answer was to choke suddenly, and, thereafter, to fall a-coughing. "Smoke go t' wrong way, Jarge?" inquired the Ancient, fixing him with his bright eye. "Ay," nodded George. "Ha!" said the old man, and we smoked for a time in silence. "So 'andsome as a picter she be!" said the Ancient suddenly.
I shouldn't never have known you, I do declare! And so you didn't have yer picter done after all?" Lilac wished she could hide somewhere until her hair had grown long again. And worst of all, when Mrs Leigh next saw her in school, she looked quite startled and said: "I'm so sorry you've cut your hair, Lilac; it looked much nicer before."
"We ain't got no money," replied Bill Stillman, the smallest but readiest-tongued. "You got money, Bill," retorted Leonard Price, a parchment-colored wisp of nineteen who had recently become a widower. "I got to git clo'es with it if I hev'. There's Mallston: git him to set for his picter."
So he accosted a Columbus Guard that stood nigh, and sez he "I'm a-goin' to buy that little picter, and I want to know if I can take it home now in my vest pocket?" "That picter," sez he, "is twenty thousand dollars.
A smart creeter Hypatia Theon wuz, handsome as a picter, modest, good appearin', and a good talker. 'Tennyrate the rooms where she lectured on philosophy and how to git along in the world wuz crowded with appreciative hearers, and I spoze Mr. Cyrel, who wuz preachin' there at the time, and didn't get nigh so many to hear him, wuz mad as a hen at her for drawin' away the head men and wimmen.
Lovell nodded his head with a grave good-night and disappeared. Meanwhile, Grandma and Grandpa Keeler and Madeline were absorbing this last impressive scene as they slowly emerged from that unknown quarter of the Ark whither they had retreated. Grandpa looked at me with a peculiar twinkle in his eye. "So Lovell came back to give ye his picter, eh, teacher?" said he.
"You ain't got the speakin' to do. It's I that's got to ask her." Then as he sped out of sight, he added as an afterthought: "By the way, Bart an' Minnie Coffin have come to a split at last over that 'ere dress. After gettin' it fixed, an' promisin' him 'twas fur the last time, she's ripped it all up again 'cause she's seen some picter in a book she liked better.
I've went on makin' round balls for twenty years: 'n', massy on us, don't I remember when my old butter stamp cracked, 'n' I couldn't get another with an ear o' corn on it, 'n' hed to take one with a beehive, why, I was that homesick I couldn't bear to look my butter 'n the eye! But that woman would have had a new picter on her balls every day, I shouldn't wonder!
But this she did, and, as Jean heard her go up the back stairs, beneath which she was securely fastened in the pot-closet, she thumped and pounded with renewed energy. But the only response was: "No, no; not for the whorld, darlint, would Oi disthurbe ye and spoil yer purty picter." About an hour later Mrs. Rockwood, returning from her call, met Helen upon the front piazza.
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