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Dear me! hain't I lost my memory, sure enough, except about these ere old things? They seem's clear's daylight." "Sixty-five last July, mother," said Mercy. "Don't you know I gave you your new specs then?" "Oh, yes, child, yes. Well, I'm sixty-five, be I? Then Caley, Caley, he'd be, let me see you reckon it, Mercy. I wuz goin' on nineteen when Caley was born."
'I've wanted to fur some time, but didn't like to make bold; but now seem's as good a time as any. 'They're all talkin' of him, I sez. 'Well, he sez, 'I don't mean the dead, but the livin' boy the one folks calls Big Tom. I've heard his story, an' I got a good look over him down here in the store a while ago.
"Joel Whitten's widder's just drawed his pension along o' his bein' in the war o' 1812. ... It's took 'em all these years to fix it. ... Massy sakes! don't some folks have their luck buttered in this world?... She was his fourth wife, 'n' she never lived with him but thirteen days 'fore he up 'n' died. ... It doos seem's if the guv'ment might look after things a little mite closer.... Talk about Joel Whitten's bein' in the war o' 1812!
"The twenty-ninth of July," said Potter, promptly, while I was resigning myself, after a slight struggle, to the fact that I had lost track of dates. "Seem's to me that's somebody's birthday, isn't it?" Sally appeared to address her remark to the ceiling. "How did you know?" I exclaimed. "A little bird told me; the kind that builds in birthday books. It lives on a table in Lady Victoria's 'den'."
That name's been gone these forty year; seem's if she never owned to it, and it didn't stick to her. She was never called anythin' but the Alcazar, long as ever I knew her, and I expect I know full's much about her as anybody round here. 'Twas a-settin' here on this very beach at low water, just's we be now, that the old man told me fust how he picked her up.
"I've no patience with 'em, gallivantin' over the earth," and here Lobelia rose and shook the carpet threads from her lap. "I shouldn't want to live in a livelier place than Edgewood, seem's though! We wash and hang out Mondays, iron Tuesdays, cook Wednesdays, clean house and mend Thursdays and Fridays, bake Saturdays, and go to meetin' Sundays.
"I turned and looked through the doorway at him and he was standin' in the middle of the kitchen floor. Seems to me he had a piece of white paper in his hand seem's if he did. And then, afore I could say a word, he kind of groaned and sunk down in in a pile, as you might say, right on the floor.
Seems jest as if it set him ag'in' her somehow! And yet, if you've got to sing out o' the same book with a girl your whole lifetime, it does seem's if you'd ought to have a kind of a fancy for her at the start, anyhow!" "You may feel dif'rent as time goes on, Cephas, an' come to see Feeble I would say Phoebe as your mother does. 'The best fire don't flare up the soonest, you know."
But I don't know's I shan't tell you after all; seem's as if I must tell somebody. Mrs. Barnes, I shan't live much longer. I've had a warning." Thankful stared at her. "Rebecca Timpson!" she exclaimed. "Have you gone crazy? What are you talkin' about? A warnin'!" "Yes, a warning. I was warned last night. You you knew I was a twin, didn't you?" "A which?" "A twin.
"Cap'n Jabez said she had, this arternoon," said Caleb, slowly, tying a trace. "I dunno's the old lady's to blame. Seem's if she hadn't ought to be left alone." "But how'm I goin' to get 'em back?" persisted Amanda, coming close to him, her poor little face pinched and eager. "He jest showed me the receipt, all signed. How'm I goin' to get the things, Caleb?"
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