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"I've seed you hyeh." "Jus' as I s'posed." "You an' HIM." "Jus' as I s'posed," she repeated, and a spot of red came into each cheek. "But we didn't see YOU." Young Dave laughed. "Well, everybody don't always see me when I'm seein' them." "No," she said unsteadily.
She stood looking at it, her face drooping severely. "It was sent to my sister," said she. "I s'posed so. Well, I thought I'd hand it to you." Mrs. Field nodded gravely, and put the letter in her pocket. She was again passing out, when somebody nudged her heavily. It was Mrs. Green, a woman who lived in the next house beyond hers. "Jest wait a minute," she said, "an' I'll go along with you."
"I DON' know as I cal'lated to be the makin' of any child," Miranda had said as she folded Aurelia's letter and laid it in the light-stand drawer. "I s'posed of course Aurelia would send us the one we asked for, but it's just like her to palm off that wild young one on somebody else." "You remember we said that Rebecca, or even Jenny might come, in case Hannah could n't," interposed Jane.
"'You lie! says the old man from the bedroom, speaking as loud and f'erce as ever you heard. 'They hung him to the yard-arm! "'Don't mind him, says Andrew; 'he's wandering-like, and he had a bad dream along back in the spring; I s'posed he'd forgotten it. But the Decker fellow he turned pale, and kept talking crooked while he listened to old Peletiah a-scolding to himself.
"We didn't go where you thought we did, grandma," faltered she at last. "Mr. Crossman has two orchards, and we went to just the one you wouldn't have s'posed." "Yes, dear; so I have learned to-day." "I deceived you a-purpose, grandma; for if I hadn't deceived you, you wouldn't have let me go." There was a sorrowful expression on Mrs.
Her left hand was laying in her lap, sort of casual, and the old gent got a-hold of it and said he didn't know how to tell her how sorry he was for her. Talking from behind her pocket-handkerchief, she said such sympathy was precious; and then she went on, kind of pitiful, saying she s'posed her little Willy'd have forgot all about her before she'd get back to him and she cried some more.
"'Do you really want me to go anywheres, Emeline? says I, eager. 'Do you? I s'posed you didn't. If you'd asked "'Why should I always do the askin'? Must a wife always ask her husband? Doesn't the husband ever do anything on his own responsibility? Seth, I married you because I thought you was a strong, self-reliant man, who would advise me and protect me and
He shot himself one cold day in the fall of the year. He wuz gettin' over a brush fence, they s'posed the gun hit against somethin' and went off, for they found him a layin' dead at the bottom of the fence. I always s'posed that the shock of his death comin' so awful sudden unto her, killed his wife.
And almost like a stranger to her father, for he hadn't seen him sence he wus a boy; but he knew he hadn't any children, and s'posed he wus rich and respectable. But the will was made, and the law stood. Men are ashamed now, to think the law wus ever in voge; but it wuz, and is now in some of the States. The law wus in voge, and the poor young mother couldn't help herself.
She used to act as de guide ob de runaways to de next station, and ebery man who came along she asked if they knew me; but, law bless you, sar, de poor woman knew nufing ob places, or she would hab known dat she war hundreds ob miles south of Virginia, and though she allowed she had heard I had gone to Missouri, she s'posed dat de way from der might be by de sea coast.
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