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"She doesn't know what a treasure she is to me," she said to us. Then, after she finished the two verses, she remarked, wistfully, "Well, my own life is lost, but she shall be educated." "Why? Why should you talk like that, Dora?" Sadie protested, her fishy eyes full of tragedy. "Why, you are only beginning to live." "Of course she is," I chimed in.
Her face was white as milk, but not with fear. The man who held the pistol had ceased for the moment to bear any resemblance to her father, but assuredly he was the defaulter whom Jeff Wells and the sheriff sought. The expression upon his face revealed that, if nothing else. Sadie removed the pistol and brought it to Sillett. "In the hut, on a nail behind the door, is a piece of cord. Fetch it!"
It's only the followin' evenin', though, that Sadie announces: "What do you think, Shorty? A Vermont cousin of Mr. Twombley-Crane is in town, with his wife, and they're going to give them a dinner party Friday night." "Gee!" says I. "I'd like to be there." "You will be," says she; "for you are specially invited." "Eh?" says I. "To meet the poor relations? How's that?"
"Why, n-no; though I I have given money to them." This time Mrs. Carew's voice was almost apologetically pleading in tone. Sadie Dean smiled curiously. "Yes, I know. There are lots of good women that have given money to them and have never seen the inside of one of them. Please don't understand that I'm sayin' anythin' against the homes. I'm not. They're good things.
Would you waste any time on Sadie Burch if she came in here and told you that your father had expressed the desire that she should have twenty-five thousand dollars? Not much!" "I don't suppose so!" admitted Payson. "Another thing!" said Tutt.
No pet alligators were found in the desk of Bunny or any of the other pupils, and neither Sadie West nor any of the other girls thought she saw a mouse. However, something happened in the afternoon. It was a warm day, early in summer, though the long vacation had not yet come. The windows were open and the bright sun streamed in.
Now my friend, I have talked longer on this subject than I like, or than I ought. I beg you will forget all I have said, and give me some music to close the scene." Sadie laughed, and ran her fingers lightly over the keys; but she asked: "In which class do you place your brother in the profession, Doctor?" Dr. Douglass drew his shoulder into a very slight though expressive shrug, as he answered.
Sadie West leaned forward eagerly, anxious, in a way, that a mouse should be found, for that would make her story true, and she was sure, in her own mind, that she had seen a mouse. Bunny, too, looked eagerly at Miss Bradley, and so did Sue, from the other side of the room. "Grab a book, everybody!" said Charlie Star in a hoarse whisper to the other boys.
"Where'd you get that story, Corinne?" His odd habit of so calling her had often been privately discussed between Kern and her mother, who had so long ago shortened their own original Kurrin that even that had passed from memory. They had concluded that this was only one of his jokey gempman's ways. "Off Sadie Whirtle," said Kern, rocking backward and forward in her chair.
Aloysius, meanwhile, would regale her with one of those choice bits of gossip he had always about him, like a jewel concealed, and only to be brought out for the appreciative. Mrs. Brandeis disapproved of store gossip, and frowned on Sadie and Pearl whenever she found them, their heads close together, their stifled shrieks testifying to his wit.
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