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"He came up here," said Tom, "just as quiet an' grave an' simple as you or me. An' he sat there in his lawyer's clothes, with his back to that thar pillar, an' he told Sairy an' me all about Allan. He told us how good he was an' how all the men loved him an' how valuable he was to the service.
"Woodshed!" she exclaimed, making as if to rise and follow. "You set still," said David. "Somethin' I fergot." "What on earth!" she exclaimed, with an air of annoyance and bewilderment. "What do you want in the woodshed? Can't you set down an' let Sairy git it for ye?" "No," he asserted with a grin. "Sairy might sqush it. It must be putty meller by this time," And out he went.
What's the use when it's happening all the time? I ain't denying that most of the light would go out of things. Stop imaginin' an' read Christianna what he says about furin' parts." "After Gaines's Mill it was twelve days," said Tom, "an' the twelfth day we didn't say a word, only Sairy read the Bible. An' now he's well and rejoined at Leesburg." He cleared his throat.
Scots-men reckon ay fra an ill hour. Send, and fetch. Sairy be your meil-poke, and ay your nieve in the nook on't. Sike Priest, sike Offering. Swear by your brunt shins. Seying goes good cheap. She that takes gifts her self, she sels; and she that gives, does nought else. She is a sairy mouse, that hes but one Hole. Shod in the cradle, bair-foot in the Stubble.
Then, as Nicholas took up his hat, she added: "If they ask after me, Nick, be sure an' say I'm jes' po'ly." Nicholas nodded and went out, followed to the road by Sairy Jane and Jubal, while his stepmother called after him to walk in the grass and try to keep his feet clean.
At the table he asked his stepmother and Sairy Jane about the spring chickens, and they answered with surprised eagerness. "I am going to mark the lambs to-morrow," he said. "They're a nice lot." And he added: "Some day I'll take the farm and make it pay." "I don't see what you want to go steppin' in yo' pa's shoes for," put in Marthy Burr.
Being fond of the night side of nature, I was soon promoted to the post of night nurse, with every facility for indulging in my favorite pastime of "owling." My colleague, a black-eyed widow, relieved me at dawn, we two taking care of the ward, between us, like the immortal Sairy and Betsey, "turn and turn about."
Yes, Sairy Jane might have them all, and he wouldn't pull her hair again when he caught her looking at them on the sly. Presently Juliet called Sally and took him into the quaint old dining-room and gave him cakes and jam on a table that shone like glass. There he saw Mr. Burwell a pink-cheeked, little gentleman who wore an expansive air of innocence and a white piqué waistcoat and Mrs.
The world should be grateful to Phænarete that she did not honor the Sairy Gamp precedents and observe the Platonic maxim, "Sandal-makers usually go barefoot": she gave her customers an object-lesson in well-doing as well as teaching them by precept. None of her clients did so well as she even though her professional duties were so exacting that domesticity to her was merely incidental.
I fear so sometimes, for it's getting hard everywhere, and you can't see the end I wish I had some pay to send you, but we aren't getting any now. This war's going to be fought without food or pay. Tell me, Aunt Sairy, just right honestly how you are getting on. It's getting toward winter. When I say my prayers I pray now that it won't be a hard winter. A lot of us are praying that.
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