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My opinion is that you've seen the last of him; no sense in your thinking otherwise, because you're just leaving yourself open to disappointment!" Yet Mr. Shrimplin remained to reinstate Mrs. Montgomery in her home. It was his expert hands that set up the cracked and rusted kitchen stove, and arranged the scanty and battered furniture in the several rooms.
"What's the matter now?" "Matter? Why, I'm so happy I just don't know what to do! I've heard from my Joe!" Mrs. Shrimplin rested her hands on her hips and surveyed Nellie with eyes that seemed to hold pity and contempt in about equal proportion. "You've heard from Joe! Well, if he was my husband he'd have heard from me long ago!" she said. And it occurred to Mr.
The ringing of his door-bell caused him to start expectantly, and a moment later a maid entered to say that a man and a woman wished to see him. "Show them in!" said the judge. And Mr. Shrimplin with all that modesty of demeanor which one of his sensitive nature might be expected to feel in the presence of greatness, promptly insinuated himself into the room.
He had expected to see that conqueror of bad men and cow-towns, the somewhat ruthless but always manful slayer of one-eye Murphy, descend from his cart with astonishing alacrity, and heedless in his tried courage stride down into the darkness beyond the slaughter-house. But Mr. Shrimplin did nothing of the sort, he made no move to quit his seat.
How many boys in Mount Hope, do you think, would have the nerve to do what you just done? I love nerve," concluded Mr. Shrimplin with generous enthusiasm. But Custer was silent, a sense of bitter shame kept him mute. "Custer," said his father, in a timidly propitiatory tone, "I hope you ain't feeling stuck-up about this!" "I wish it had never happened!" The boy spoke in an angry whisper.
While Mr. Shrimplin stopped to speak with Mr. North the town bell rang the hour six o'clock." The coroner paused. There was a moment's silence, then Marshall Langham made a half step forward. A sudden palsy had seized him, yet he was determined to speak; he felt that he must be heard, that he had something vital to say.
But at last Bill was stripped of his harness, and the little lamplighter, escaping from the barn with its fancied terrors, hurried across his small back yard to his kitchen door. "Well!" said Mrs. Shrimplin, as he entered the room. "I was beginning to wonder if you'd ever think it worth your while to come home!" "What's the bell been ringing for?" asked Custer. Mrs.
Shrimplin, whose moods were likely to be critical and censorious, realized that there was something personally offensive in the fact that Archibald McBride had chosen to disregard a holiday which his fellow-merchants had so very generally observed. "And him, I may say, just rotten rich!" he thought. Mr.
"I don't know about this, Custer," said Mr. Shrimplin, with a doubtful shake of the head, as he drew rein. "She's way up. I had no idea she was way up like this; I guess though we can't do no better than to chance it, catfish is a muddy-water fish, anyhow."
Shrimplin, lost to everything but that one dreadful fact. "Who's dead?" demanded the colonel. "Stand up, man, don't fall about like that or you may do yourself some injury!" for Mr. Shrimplin seemed about to collapse once more. "Old man McBride, Colonel if he ain't dead I wish I may never see death!" "Dead!" cried the colonel. "Archibald McBride dead!" He released his hold on Mr.
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