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But she sent her last letter by hand, and it don't seem to have been very clearly understood between 'em without it, and if she don't see him a-waving his pocket-handkerchief on the shore, like a pictur out of a song-book, my opinion is, she'll break her heart. 'Why, how, in Folly's name, does the woman come to be on board ship on such a wild-goose venture! cried Martin.
'What made ye stan' me a slider, an' a champion tea, an' they nice sweeties, an' a best sate in a pictur hoose when ye wasna extra keen on ma comp'ny? 'Dear knows. She drew away from him so smartly that he turned his face towards her. 'Oh, crool! she murmured, and put her handkerchief to her eyes. 'Dinna dae that! he whispered, alarmed. 'What's up? 'Ye ye insulted me. 'Insulted ye!
Then the wood-cutter handed back the photograph and shifted his gaze. "I've never seen the original of that about these parts," he said a little hoarsely. "I didn't figger you had," Seth replied, rising and proceeding to tighten up the cinches of his saddle preparatory to departing. "The lawyer feller gave me that. Y' see it's an old pictur'. 'Tain't as fancy as they do 'em now.
And the money which you have paid us so handsome, Colonel, he shall have it; which it was the excellent ideer of Miss Cann; and my lord have ordered a pictur of John James in the most libral manner, and have asked my son to dinner, sir, at his lordship's own table, which I have faithfully served him five-and-thirty years."
Ay, 'twas a pretty pictur', the greasy yellow stuff runnin' down over his powdered hair an' lace collar an' fine blue coat. My eye! there was a rare old shindy, the cadet cursin' and splutterin', the others laughin' fit to bust 'emselves. The cadet out with his fists, but there, 'twas no manner o' use. Mr. Clive bowled him over like a ninepin till he lay along deck all pea soup an' gore.
"And now," said Ezra softly, "the pictur' changes: seems as if I could see the pond. The ice is like a black lookin'-glass, and Hiram Peabody slips up the first thing, an' down he comes, lickety-split, an' we all laugh except Sister Mary, an' she says it is very imp'lite to laugh at other folks' misfortunes.
"I told 'er that there wa'n't no danger in the old 'Lizy Rodgers, sech weather as I go out in. 'But ye carn't never tell, says she; 'and asides, says she, 'ye're a kind o' baldin' off an' dryin' away, more or less, every year, says she, 'an' I want yer pictur' took afore
He was as honest a fellow as we ever had about the house they're all honest folks in the north." "I never saw a prettier young woman in my life," said the husband. "She's like a pictur in a shop-winder. It goes to one's 'eart to look at her."
But he did and this was a great thrill for me did, after some pondering at my behest, remember to have seen in Heath Street, when he was a boy, 'a gen'leman with summut long hair, settin' in a small cart, takin' a pictur'. To me Ford Madox Brown's 'Work' is of all modern pictur's the most delightful in composition and strongest in conception, the most alive and the most worth-while; and I take great pride in having known some one who saw it in the making.
Come, little gal, give a jump, and let's see how spry you are." Isabel obeyed, and impelled by Miss Bowles' vigorous arm, made a swinging leap out of the carriage. "Gracious sakes, but she's as hornsome as a pictur, ain't she though? Not your own darter, marm. I calcurlate."
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