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They answered, "We ain't prosperin'; we're hayin'." Said Cobden, "I told the man, 'Now don't you go home and publish that in your paper; but he did, nevertheless, and sent me over the paper with the story in it."
"How nice you've got things fixed up, Mr. Bingham," Hepsey remarked, gazing serenely at the seductive variety of bottles and glasses, and the glare of mirrors behind the bar. "Nothin' like havin' a fine lookin' place to draw trade. Is business prosperin' now-a-days?" Silas turned three shades redder, and stammered badly as he replied: "Yes, I'm doin' as well as I can expect er I suppose."
Now I gwine ter 'fess de truf. I gave Mr. Buggone an extra Sunday dinner yistidy. I was puff up wid pride kase business was good, an' I bress de Lawd fer prosperin' me. Den like a fool I 'dulge myself and I 'dulge Mr. Buggone.
"Then you wouldn't advise my friend to say yes?" "Sakes alive, no! I'd say to her as I did to my younger sisters when their courtin' time come: 'Jest be sure you're right as to there bein' love enough, then go ahead, and the Lord will bless you." "Did they follow your advice?" "They did, and both is prosperin' in different ways.
"Right as rain, Bobby is. Goin' on ten now. Of course 'tain't as if he had his mother to look after him; but I do the best I can by him. Wish he had a better show for schoolin', though. I haven't been prosperin' much since Sally died. Seems like I sorter lost my grip. But I aim to put Bobby in school here when it starts up, next fall.
"Nigh on to a year ago." "That is a long time. You have heard nothing of him since?" "No, miss. I should say yes," he added, with sudden recollection. "One of our boys saw him some months later, and reported that he was well and prosperin'. I disremember where he was, but somewhere at the mines." "That is something. Do you think you could find him?" "I could try, miss,"
"It's the 15th of August, when he goes and gets his money. He heired an annuity from an uncle o' his on his mother's side. I understood the uncle said none o' Sam Begg's wife's folks should make free with it, so after Sam's gone it'll all be past an' spent, like last summer. That's what Sam prospers on now, if you can call it prosperin'. Yes, I might have known.
"It's true as gospel," declared the invalid; "they always got the better of me. I had one of 'em after me once, when I was young and prosperin' some." "And yet you have survived triumphant," she exclaimed. "There wahn't none of 'em like you," said Mr. Meader, "or it might have be'n different."
The visitor's drawling voice rose again, and she was not now constrained to reproach herself that she was too happy. "Yes'm, pore though we war then an' we couldn't look forward ter the Lord's prosperin' us some sence we never would hev lef the precious leetle lam'" his voice dwelt with unvanquished emphasis upon the obnoxious words "'mongst enny but them persumed ter be godly folks.
"Fifty wouldn't hardly do, p'r'aps?" "Hardly. I like to carry a job through clean an' vitty while I'm on it." "You've got such a big spirit." "As to that, money so spent ban't lost 'tis all in the fam'ly." "Of course 'tis a gude advertisement for you. Folk'll think you'm prosperin' an' look up to you more." "Well, some might, though I doan't 'zactly mean it like that.
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