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Updated: June 1, 2025
"If I had been doin' what you two have been up to, pretendin' to care for a young girl and offerin' to give her a home, and all the time doin' it just because I thought I could squeeze money out of her, I shouldn't trouble the Lord much. I wouldn't take the risk of callin' His attention to me." In Which the Pilgrimage Ends Where It Began We did not go to Mayberry that day.
"Heaven knows!" murmured the astonished mother. "An' then," Jane continued, "he quit barkin' all of a sudden, an' didn't lean his head over any more, an' commenced actin' kind of solemn, an' kind of whispered to himself. I think he was kind of pretendin' he was talkin' to Miss Pratt, or at a party, maybe.
"Th' storm's over for a bit. It does like this at this time o' th' year. It goes off in a night like it was pretendin' it had never been here an' never meant to come again. That's because th' springtime's on its way. It's a long way off yet, but it's comin'." "I thought perhaps it always rained or looked dark in England," Mary said.
For he came over the fields at the back across the ten-acre field that Mrs Bosenna carried last week and a very tidy crop, I'm told, though but moderate long in the stalk. . . . Well, there he was comin' across the stubble at a fine pace, too, with his coat 'pon his arm when as I guess he spied me down in the road below and stopped short, danderin' about an' pretendin' to poke up weeds with his stick.
Perhaps the poor captain had felt a little mortified that he had been so carried away by that which was, after all, "on'y pretendin'," and did not care to rehearse his experience. However that may be, Theodore had heard nothing of it, and laughed and jeered with the other boys at the more than graphic relation of his two schoolmates.
All the old women had peaked ats, and crooked cains, and chince gowns tucked into the pockits of their quiltid petticoats; they sat in pictarask porches, pretendin to spinn, while the lads and lassis of the villidges danst under the hellums. O, tis a noble sight to whitniss that of an appy pheasantry!
They thought I was asleep, but I was just pretendin'." "Did Mr. Langford say why they must be good to you while we were here?" asked Katherine. "I guess he did," the boy replied slowly. "He said somebody'd take me away and Mom 'u'd lose a lot o' money." "That's just what we thought," Hazel declared. "What else did you overhear?" Katherine inquired. "They're goin' to be awful nice and awful mean."
I heerd him laugh out sudden an' then he kivered his mouth 'ith his long, bony hand an' coughed as I snatched the bonnet frum 'er head an' begun to tear a seam open. She made a grab over his spindlin' legs fer it, but I paid no attention to 'er, pretendin' to be fixin' it. Then the fun begun. I seed 'im lay hold of 'er wrists an' look 'er spank, dab in the eyes, an' 'en he begun to rant.
And ef gov'ment would only make up its mind how to treat 'em, instead of one day pretendin' to be their 'Great Father' and treatin' them like babies, and the next makin' treaties with 'em like as they wos forriners, and the next sendin' out a handful of us to lick ten thousand of them Wot's the use of ONE regiment even two agin a nation on their own ground?"
"You wouldn't ha' been comfortable with Martha Deane, anyhow," Miss Lavender grimly remarked. "'T isn't good to hitch a colt-horse and an old spavined critter in one team. But that's neither here nor there; you ha'n't told us why you made up to her for a purpose, and kep' on pretendin' she didn't know her own mind."
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