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Still and after all, now, a woman " "I couldn't have ate at Sim's place if he would of asked me to," grumbled Wid Gardner aloud to himself as he busied himself about his own household duties in his bachelor cabin. "He's too damn dirty, like I said, and that's a fact." Wid's cabin itself was in general appearance no better, if no worse, than the average in the Two Forks Valley.
Would you tarnish the child's name with the sin laid on the father's " "God in heaven help me!" cried Sim, tremulous with emotion. "Ralph, Ralph, ask me no more you don't know what you ask." "It is your duty to Heaven, I say." He put his hand on Sim's shoulder, and looked steadily in his eyes.
The appearance of Uncle Sim's black and smiling countenance, as he entered bowing and grinning, his fiddle under his arm, was hailed with uproar and caused a prodigious accession of activity among the huskers, the completion of whose task would be the signal for the dancing to begin.
But the short-winded locksmith had no chance against a man of Sim's youth and spare figure, though the day had been when he could have run him down in no time. The space between them rapidly increased, and as the rays of the rising sun streamed upon Simon in the act of turning a distant corner, Gabriel Varden was fain to give up, and sit down on a doorstep to fetch his breath.
This was not serious; but now came Sim's landlord. He had called on the tailor the previous morning for his rent and could not get it. Late the same night Sim had knocked at his door with the money. "When I ax't him where he'd come from so late," said the man, "he glower't at me daiztlike, and said nought." "What was his appearance?" "His claes were a' awry, and he keep't looking ahint him."
The snow will be thick in the morning, and perhaps the horses would have hindered us. Everything is for the best." Sim's excitement was plainly visible, and even Ralph could not conceal his own agitation. Was he to be too late to do what it had been in his mind to do? "Did you say Saturday week next? It is Tuesday to-day," said Ralph. "A week come Saturday that was what Rotha told me."
"Whear the pot's brocken, there let the sherds lie, lad," said the old man; "keep thy breath to cool thy poddish, forby thy mug of yal, and here't comes." As he spoke the hostess brought up a pot of ale, smoking hot, and put it in Ralph's hand. "Let every man stand his awn rackups, Ralph. Sim's a bad lot, and reet serv'd."
"I ain't the only one that's restless," he defended. "Don's as contraptious as a mule. And I've caught a look in young O'Neill's eye once or twice like old Sim's black mare, mettlesome and anxious to bolt." "Until Joan slips into a chair with a book or some work," snapped Hannah. "Then he's a lamb. If I was Mr.
When he entered Sim Gage's gate, the ancient mule, his head out of the stable window, welcomed him, braying his discontent. Here lay the ragged wood pile, showing the ax work of a winter. At the edge of a gnawed hay stack stood the remnant of Sim's scant cattle herd, not half of which had "wintered through." No smoke was rising from Sim Gage's chimney.
The barbarity of Wilson's speech was especially malicious when directed against the poor folks with whom he lived, and who, being conscious of how essential he was to the stability of the household, were largely at his mercy. It happened on one occasion that when Wilson returned to the cottage after a day's absence, he found Sim's daughter weeping over the fire. "What's now?" he asked.
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