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Updated: June 17, 2025
Don't ask me, for I can't tell you. She was a Swede, a kind o' white slave, who was kept with several other women by my father. She went out one day, an' never came back. I believe she'd got heartsick, an' was plannin' t' escape with a feller o' her own nationality, a newcomer. Anyhow, when I asked my father about her, he threatened me into silence.
"The appropriation has gone through," explained the lawyer, "and this is the celebration in consequence. And you are the star attraction because, you see, everyone knows you are responsible for it." "That's what!" howled the excited Bangs. "And we're goin' to show you what we think of you for doin' it. We've been plannin' this for over a fortni't."
"What is the meaning of this, Mammy?" the Colonel asked, as soon as the young people had left. "What is going on to-night?" "It's a dance 'bout de fire, Cun'l," the old woman explained. "De young folks hab been plannin' all dis bressed day to s'prize Missie Jean an' Mistah Dane t'night. Dey's been cookin' an' cookin', an' whisperin' mysterious like, an' laffin' an' laffin' to split dere sides."
"I suppose it 'ud nigh break thy heart if he found out before tha' told him in tha' own way," she said. "Tha's laid awake nights plannin' it." "I couldn't bear any one else to tell him," said Colin. "I think about different ways every day. I think now I just want to run into his room." "That'd be a fine start for him," said Susan Sowerby. "I'd like to see his face, lad. I would that!
"I know, ma, what you've ben plannin' for Will keepin' him in school to make a book-keeper out of him. But it ain't no use, I've quit. He's got to go to work." "An' after I have brung you up the way I have," she wept, starting to cover her head with the apron and changing her mind. "You never brung me up," he answered with sad kindliness. "I brung myself up, ma, an' I brung up Will.
Off he went, and Nate followed along, holdin' his head and staggerin' like a voter comin' home from a political candidate's picnic. All he could think of was: 'THIS the end of all my plannin'! What WHAT'LL Huldy Ann say to THIS? "Nate found the professor bolstered up in his chair, with the other two standin' alongside. He was layin' down the law about that blessed aeroplane. "'No! no!
"Well, I'm damned if that wasn't slick; he give me the straight tip to leave Porter to him to let him do the plannin'; I see." Porter was an easy man with his horses. Though he could not afford, because of his needs, to work out his theory that two-year-olds should not be raced, yet he utilized it as far as possible by running them at longer intervals than was general.
Auntie pays no attention to this, but asks Vee if she hasn't some old flannel shirts, or something of the kind. Well, while they're plannin' out the new winter styles of turkey costumes, Joe and Leon rigs up a wood stove in their coop, shoos the flock in, and proceeds to warm 'em up. They took turns that night keeping the fire going, I understand.
I shall think of you as very comfortable here, Mr. Cabarreux, when I am in the North." "When you are in the North? Great God! do you know what you are sayin'? Stay! you shall hear me! It's a poor hovel I know how wretched it looks in your Northern eyes but as I lay there this morning I was plannin' plannin' how to make a palace of it for you for you. Why, I'd work like a slave " He stopped short.
With the coming of daylight Margaret arose while yet the others slept, and breakfast was ready with the rising of the sun. "You must be plannin' a big day's work," said Mrs. Spencer, and Margaret replied: "Yes, for I can't see the end of it. Kintchin, ketch the gray mare an' put the side saddle on her. An' now, you folks kin stay here jest as long as you please." "Why, where air you goin'?" Mrs.
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