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Kimper, too, was enabled to dress well enough to appear in church, though she stipulated that she should go only to evening services. "I don't 'mount to much, Mrs. Prency," said she to the family's benefactor; "there ain't much left of me as I once was, but I ain't goin' to have people look at me the way they do, any more than I can help." "The feeling does you credit, Mrs.
Prency returned to the sewing-room and chatted a little while with the new seamstress about the work in hand. Eleanor joined them in a few moments, and the mental condition of the atmosphere became somewhat less cloudy than before, when suddenly a stupid servant, who had only just been engaged and did not entirely know the ways of the house, ushered directly into the sewing-room Mr.
"Yes, ma'am, so you did," said the cobbler, "an' it's a shame that I should ask anythin' else of you, for I know you're generous-hearted, an' the Lord knows there's enough other poor an' wretched people in this town that needs lookin' after, an' I know you're doin' a good deal for all of 'em. But this ain't a matter of poverty, Mrs. Prency; it goes a good deal deeper than that.
Judge Prency, an' she's comin' for it this afternoon; but I'm that sleepy that " Larry's head gently sought the wall again. "An' a very good woman she is, Larry. Brace up, my boy, why don't you, an' finish your work?" "Eh? Say 'Brace up' to somebody that's not got anythin' in him to brace him down. She kin wait for her shoe while I'm havin' my aise an' forgettin' all about work."
Kimper, I've heard some remarks about your speech at the experience-meeting the other night. You know I was there myself; you remember I spoke to you as you came out?" "Mrs. Prency, I know it; an' that isn't all; I'll remember it just as long as I live.
I told him what you said, I remembered it all, word for word, and he said to me, these are exactly his words, 'I believe that is an honest man, and that he is going to remain an honest man." Sam bent over the shoe a little closer, and said, in a faint voice, as if he were talking to himself, "What Judge Prency says about human natur ort to be true.
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