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Updated: May 17, 2025
"It's next best to heaven. Just s'posing the whole world was made up of these great, high, dirty houses, without any woods or flowers or trees anywhere. Wouldn't it be dreadful?" The dismal picture she painted was singularly effective, and other purchasers gathered around, clamoring for her wares. "I will give you a dime for one of those pink lady's-slippers," said a bent, old man.
"Because I would know for certain He would meet me and take me back. Nurse told me she had a cousin who ran away and made himself a soldier, and when he was sorry and wanted to come home, his father shut the door in his face, and wouldn't let him in. And then there's Tommy, I can't help s'posing that his father mightn't know him. But God can't make mistakes.
I'd peach 'bout it," and then you'd have to fork over to the government, and would get nothing for your pains." "But suppose we should despatch you on the spot?" "But there's no use s'posing any thing of the kind. 'Mericans don't often kill people in cold blood." "You know that we are Americans?" we demanded, in astonishment. "Of course I does. Didn't I 'ear all about ye vile I vas at the mines?
"As true as you live, I don't believe these shoes will ever be dry by school time. S'posing we have to go barefooted, and this the last day of the term! Cherry, you've got too many columbines in that horn. They look pinched. Put some in Allee's boat." "Allee's boat?" "Well, she is fixing it for Miss Truesdale, even if she ain't a sure-enough scholar yet.
They had no idea that the conspirators either or both of them would come directly from their conference to the room where a watch had been kept on them. "Do you think he saw us?" asked Joe, in a whisper. "S'posing he did?" demanded Charlie. "We have the goods on him, all right." Blake held up a hand to enjoin silence, though the remarks of his friends had been made in the lowest of tones.
Just s'posing you had to live in a mite of an ugly house without nice things to eat or wear and with no father or mother to take care of you, and a mortgage you couldn't pay, and an old skinflint of a man ready to slam you outdoors and gobble up the farm, furniture and everything, the minute the mortgage was due. How'd you like that?" "Have you no father or mother?"
And it's hard work always to remember it, 'specially when folks go off and forget all about you when you've just been counting the days till 'twas time to go home and see Allee and grandpa after being away so long. S'posing I should die 'fore they get back, I wonder how they'll feel. Why, Peace Greenfield, you hateful little tike! Ain't you ashamed of yourself? Yes, I am.
They tiptoed away; so I seen, easy enough, that they'd shoved in there to do up your majesty's room, or something, s'posing you was up; and found you WARN'T up, and so they was hoping to slide out of the way of trouble without waking you up, if they hadn't already waked you up." "Great guns, THIS is a go!" says the king; and both of them looked pretty sick and tolerable silly.
"Oh, just an idea they've got that it's going higher," Inches answered indifferently. "Well, s'posing it is; why should I want to sell?" "Why, you'd have made a pretty good thing in it, and you might like to have your bird in hand, don't you know?" Marietta sat down to her flower-books and worked on composedly, while Inches still lingered.
"Did it hurt?" whispered Allee, with eyes brimming full of sympathy. "It might have been worse, s'posing he had used a piece of iron instead of a stick." Profound silence reigned in the little room. Then Gail said abruptly, "Come upstairs with me. I want to see you alone."
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