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"'That's what he said about his girl Maggie that was took up for stealin' Mrs. Elkanah Higgins's spoons, I says. 'He had a healthy crop of apples in HIS orchard. "'S-sh-h! DON'T talk so! I feel as if the old man's spirit was with us this minute. "He's the apple of my eye," he says, "and he run away, after me latherin' the life out of him with a wagon spoke.
In the thin snow drifted upon this porch were the imprints of little feet. Something gleamed pale blue in the light of the open door. Mr. Maynard picked it up, and with a sigh that was a groan held it out to Swann. It was a blue satin slipper. "Heavens!" exclaimed Swann. "She's run out in the snow she might as well be barefooted." "S-sh-h!" warned Mr. Maynard.
Yet his first move was to run into the living room and close his helper's chamber door. When he came back to the kitchen, shutting the living-room door carefully behind him, Mrs. Bascom was standing on the sill. She started when she saw him. "Land sakes!" she exclaimed. "You? I cal'lated, of course, you was abed and asleep." The lightkeeper waved his hands. "S-sh-h!" he whispered.
Now they took advantage of the general disappointment to make sarcastic and would-be-humorous remarks loud enough for the majestic occupant of the decorated carriage to hear. "Seems to me," said Thoph Black, "that them flags ought to be ha'f mast. That craft's in distress." "S-sh-h!" counciled his companion, another Come-Outer. "Don't be irreverent. Look who's cruisin' under 'em.
"What shall I s-sh-h about? Your young man's gone somewhere, I s'pose, else you wouldn't be here." "No, he ain't. He's turned in, tired out." "Oh, then I guess I'd better go back home. 'Twas him I expected to see, else, of course, I shouldn't have come." "Oh, I know that," with a sigh. "Where's your boss, Miss Graham?" "She's gone for a walk along shore.
Did you think I was twins? Get down off there this minute. You've gone crazy. I thought so when I saw that beaver. Either that or you've been drinkin'. Grace! What DOES make her so long gettin' that hammer?" Finding the hammer did seem to take a long time. There was no sound from the kitchen. Kyan, steadying himself with one hand on the pipe, waved the other wildly. "S-s-sh! s-sh-h!" he hissed.
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