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She might fancy I was Hester's daughter, for she wonders every day where I get my low-bred ways, as she calls my liking to sing and laugh and be natural." "And s'posin' Hester was your mother, would you care?" persisted Hagar. "Of course I should," answered Maggie, her large eyes opening wide at the strange question. "I wouldn't for the whole world be anybody but Maggie Miller, just who I am.
"All I've got to do is to stop short and look him right in the eye. A chap mustn't tremble, but look hard and stern." "Why didn't you do that, Jim, when he first broke out of his cage?" "I hadn't time! I'll do it if I meet him agin. Remember, Tom, if you run against him, you must fix your eyes on him and not wink. That'll fetch him every time." "But s'posin' it doesn't?"
"It's a great deal to have the little brown house, anyway, Joel, I sh'd think you'd know that." "Mamsie," said Polly, hearing this, "s'posin' we didn't have the little brown house; just s'posin', Mammy," and her cheek turned quite white. "I know it, Polly," said Mrs. Pepper, quickly, setting busy stitches on Davie's jacket, where she was rapidly sewing a patch, "that's the way to talk.
Whoever has been slew was taken away last night in the sleigh. S'posin it was Mr. Reddon! Well, consarn it, ain't he got a body same as anybody else? We've just got to find somebody's body, that's all. We've got to prove the corpus deelicti. Drive up, Bill!" With a perseverance that spoke well for the detective's endurance, but ill for his intelligence, the "bob" sped along aimlessly.
"But all of them are interesting, some are valuable, and many grow into very beautiful moths and butterflies," I ventured to defend myself. "S'posin' they do? You can't eat 'em or wear 'em or plant 'em, can you?" And really, you understand, I couldn't!
"Unsolicited opportunities are the guide-posts of the Lord to the new roads of life," she repeated in effect, and she made up her mind to her course of action. "S'posin' I had wrote to Hiram," she muttered once, when she was in the pantry "s'posin' I had wrote, an' asked him if he knew of any horse? But I didn't, an' father's goin' wa'n't none of my doin'. It looks like a providence."
"Whar'fore would I do thet?" "I'll tell you fer why. Ef ye don't ... I'll wake old Caleb up an' sw'ar ter a dyin' statement ... an' I'll tell ther full, total truth.... Does ye agree?" The other hesitated then evaded the question. "S'posin' I does give ye my pledge ... what then?"
An' now, s'posin' I wuz ter ontie yer, Nancy Jane O, could yer tuck me on yer back an' cyar me ter de crick? an' den we'd hab de sho' thing on de gol'-stone, caze soon's eber we git dar, I'll git it, an' we'll cyar it bof tergedder ter de king, an' den we'll bof git de deares' wush uv our hearts.
"Not a word," he cautioned, "be extra good this afternoon; even I'll try to behave myself for once, but we won't have to wait long." "S'posin' them hornets lift the lid of the desk and come out before the teacher gets here?" suggested Will Horton. "What are you talking about?" was the scornful question of Dick Culver; "how can a hornet raise the lid of a desk?"
An' s'posin' some ob dem moon men takes a notion t' throw a stone at me? Whar'll I be, when a stone goes six times as far as it does on heah? No, sah, I ain't goin'!" "But perhaps there are no men on the moon," said Mark quickly. "It is only a theory of astronomers that I'm talking about." "Oh, only a theory; eh?" asked Washington quickly. "That's all."
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