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Miss Cotton spread her cold hands over the stove, and surveyed the four girls sharply. "My, but you're pretendin' to be awful busy! An' Maggie sewin', too, as I'm alive! The poor old man's got brownkaties, she says." Sarah covered her face with her French Grammar and giggled. "Oh yes, smarty!
The doctor kep' sayin' she was better, too, an' everything seemed lookin' right up. "Seems queer I didn't suspect from the first something was wrong. Seems though I ought to 'a' known money didn't grow out o' green wood the way he was pretendin'. It wasn't two weeks before he takes me down to the basement one night when he comes home, an' he owns up.
At last the day come for me to start. I waked up feelin' a strange weight on my heart. I had dremp Philury had sot the soap stun on my chest. But no soap stun wuz ever so hard and heavy as my grief. Josiah and I wuz to be parted! Could it be so? Could I live through it? He wuz out in the wood-house kitchen pretendin' to file a saw. File a saw before breakfast!
"Sure, 'tis th' same Piper Tim ye are!" she said cheerfully, laying down her work, "but, Lord save ye, Timmy darlint, Moira's grown up! There's no need for my pretendin' to play any more, is there, when I've got proper childer o' my own to keep it up. They are my little people an' I don't have to have a quiet place to fancy them up out o' nothin'. They're real!
Then some one says, th' vera words: A can hear them yet, 'Let's go across an' hear those damned evangelists: there's a white faced whiskers, an' a little clean shaved jumpin' jack skippin' all over the backs o' the church seats pretendin' he's Henry Ward Beecher an' sayin' in a fog horn voice, 'I like that. Let's go an' raise Hell. "Wayland, man, we went across!
Which they're pretendin' to be startled to find they're feedin' off the same dish. Thar you be; that makes 'em 'buck an' squaw' 'man an' wife; an' yereafter, in Osage circles they can print their kyards 'Mister an' Missis Bill Connors, while Bill draws an' spends the little Saucy Willow's annooty on payment day instead of Strike Axe." When Tutt first saw Tucson.
For a brother that she hadn't seen in a dozen years an' which she knows in her secret heart wasn't any good?" retorted Sanderson. "Shootin' your face off in Okar or anywhere else don't go any more," added Sanderson. "She's pretendin', publicly, that I'm her brother." "I'm through talking," declared Owen. "Or livin'. It's one or the other," warned Sanderson.
I never heard nothin', but they tell me " "Rubbish!" broke in Mr. Holt, Senior. "'Tain't nothin' but fool yarns, the whole of it. Take an old house, a hundred year old same as that is, and shut her up and 'tain't long afore folks do get to pretendin' they hear things. I never heard nothin'. Have some more pie, Miss Howes? Huh! There AIN'T no more, is there!"
'Hoo daur ye! she cried, forgetting her 'fine English' as well as her haughty pose. 'If it was true, it wud mean that ye've been judgin' me unfair, kennin' it was unfair, an' I'll never believe ye wud dae that. . . . So, Christina dear, listen to me an' gi'e me a chance. 'Oh, what's the use, she sighed with sudden weariness, 'what's the use o' pretendin', Macgreegor? 'Wha's pretendin'? 'You!
I was still workin' it and it was respondin' about as well as one of them black Kabyles that are pretendin' to help build our station at Lacanau I was still workin' it, when the old hearse swings to the right through a gate in a stone wall and brings up short in a field. There was grass in the field and daisies and things, and a lotta tin crosses stuck on mounds that I guessed was graves.
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