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They seemed to be sayin' to me and Josiah and the world at large, "You may boast of your inventions, your marvels of this age, your civilization, your glory, your pryin' into dark continents and unexplored regions of land and science. But what do you know anyway? Of what consequence are you? How soon your life and your memory will be utterly wiped out and forgotten.
"The children had nothing to do with it," said Phillis. "Master wanted some roots to give to Mr. Kent and he asked me for 'em. I dug 'em up and they're all the better for being thinned out." "I wish master'd mind his own business, and not be pryin and pilferin 'bout other people's gardens; givin my flowers to that yallow-headed Abolitioner. I'll speak my mind to him about it, any how."
"I understand that ye own this house, ma'am," he began. "What would ye sell it for?" Mrs. Hollister looked at her son. "Why?" she asked. "Because I'm about to buy a house for Nora and the Doctor, and I want to buy one in this neighborhood. I also have a proposition to make to ye, Mr. Hollister. Frankly, what might be yere salary?" Mr. Hollister reddened. "I mean no disrespect or pryin', sir.
"Not for the likes o' you," he answered, "as comes pryin' after the likes of us. We manage our own affairs down here we do. You'd better be off, my lady."
"Oh, I've seed worse shows," was the unenthusiastic reply. "I can get an earful of that kind of chatter dead easy without pryin' myself loose from any kale," he added. I saw where the trouble lay. The terse expressive jargon of the race track, its dry humor just beneath its hard surface, might delight the unsophisticated, but not Blister. To him it lacked in novelty.
"And this was a man sent me a week ago by the Birmingham Distress Committee nine weeks out of work family in the workhouse everything up the spout. Goodness gracious, Anne, how did he get the money? Return fare, Birmingham, three-and-ten." "Don't ask me, sir," said the woman in the sun-bonnet. "I don't go pryin' into such trash!" "Is he coming back?
"Friend," he said, "some men have fame thrust upon them, but you have achieved it. To-night you pierced the heel of Achilles. Here's to you!" "I dunno wot 'ee's saying mister, but 'good health'," said Bates, swigging the wine with gusto. "Now, for your master's sake, not a word to a soul about this hubbub." "Right you are, sir! But that there pryin' Robinson wur on t' bridge five minutes since.
'Pears to me it ain't wise to be always pickin' ourselves to pieces and pryin' into things that ought to come gradual by way of experience and the visitations of Providence. Flowers won't blow worth a cent ef you pull 'em open. Better wait and see what they can do alone. I do relish the smart sayins, the odd ways of furrin parts, and the sarcastic slaps at folkses weak spots.
"Now, pirate," said the man, turning round, and suddenly flashing a dark lantern full on the stern face of the prisoner, "you and I will have a little convarse together by yer leave or without yer leave. In case there might be pryin' eyes about, I've closed the porthole, d'ye see."
"Lor bress ye, honey, chile!" she said, turning to Mary, "why, ye looks like a new rose, ebery bit! Don't wonder somebody was allers pryin' an' spyin' about here!" "How is your Mistress, Candace?" said Mrs. Scudder, by way of changing the subject. "Well, porly, rader porly. When Massa Jim goes, 'pears like takin' de light right out her eyes.
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