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"I never s'posed there was. Folks ain't had time to git acquainted with her yit." "That's so," agreed Mr. Daggett, as if the idea was a new and valuable one. "Yes, ma'am; you're right! we ain't none of us had time to git acquainted." He beamed cordially upon Mrs. Black over the tops of his spectacles. "Looks like we're going to git a chance to know her," he went on.
"I s'posed likely ye'd think strange on't at fust; but ye h'ain't no need ter, fur it's a sens'ble thing ter dew, an' yell see't so when ye've thought on't a spell: see if ye don't."
"And I'd let it be if I s'posed I could sleep a wink; but I can't. It's worse for my nerves than strong green tea, and I'll not lie awake for all the Yankee flags in Christendom." So saying, the resolute little woman tugged at the quilt-frame until she loosened it from its fastenings, and then started to return.
They cleared out three weeks ago, and nobody's heard a word of them since that is, nobody in the village." "Don't you know where they've gone?" asked Phil, in amazement. "No. I was goin' to ask you. I s'posed, of course, they'd write and let you know." "I didn't even know they had left Gresham." "Well, that's what I call cur'us. It ain't treatin' you right accordin' to my ideas."
I don't know as I blame him much, for that ten-mile run of his to Separ in his sock feet over cactus and stones was n't much of a joke, a-tall. But he was an all-fireder fool tenderfoot than we s'posed, or we would n't have done it." Mrs. Harrison Winthrop Coolidge had long been the recognized leader of Santa Fé society.
He 'lows he hev been tryin' ter git shet o' the railroads an' dirt roads an' human folks, an' he s'posed he hed run ter the jumpin'-off place, the e-ends o' the yearth; but hyar kems the road o' civilization a-pursuin' him like the sarpient o' the Pit, with the knowledge o' good an' evil, a grain o' wheat an' a bushel o' chaff, an' he reckons he'll hev ter cut an' run again."
"W'en de oberseah w'at run de saw-mill come fum brekfas', de han's up en tell him 'bout de crazy 'ooman ez dey s'posed she wuz w'at had come runnin' in de saw-mill, a-hollerin' en gwine on, en tried ter th'ow herse'f befo' de saw. En de oberseah sent two er th'ee er de han's fer ter take Tenie back ter her marster's plantation.
'Dear God, I says, 'please bless everybody, and make me a good girl, an' send me a goat an' wagon. And they went an' changed it to a baby sister! Why, I never s'posed they made mistakes like that." Crestfallen and puzzled she allowed herself to be led back to the darkened house where her grandmother met her with the heavenly substitute wrapped in flannel.
Gilfoyle asked, with sudden alarm. "Oh, nossa. Mainly Mr. Dyckman. But that's her business." "What Dyckman is that, the rich Jim Dyckman?" "Well, I ain't s'posed to give out info'mation." "Are you supposed to take in money?" Gilfoyle juggled with a half-dollar. The hall-boy juggled his eyes in unison, and laughed yearningly: "I reckon I might let you up by mistake.
'Samivel Veller, sir, said the old gentleman, 'has conferred upon me the ancient title o' grandfather vich had long laid dormouse, and wos s'posed to be nearly hex-tinct in our family. Sammy, relate a anecdote o' vun o' them boys, that 'ere little anecdote about young Tony sayin' as he WOULD smoke a pipe unbeknown to his mother.
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