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With his boy on his sound arm, Guy disengaged himself from the noisy group and went with Maddy to where the little lady, the child he had never seen, was just beginning to show signs of resentment at being left so long alone. "Lulu, sissy, papa's come; this is papa," the little boy cried, assuming the honor of the introduction.
Sissy had come there when it was already dark, to await her return from work; and they had since sat at the window where Rachael had found her, wanting no brighter light to shine on their sorrowful talk. 'If it hadn't been mercifully brought about, that I was to have you to speak to, pursued Rachael, 'times are, when I think my mind would not have kept right.
The young Smalley mentioned in the narrative was well known to her, and also his sister "little Sissy Smalley," as they used to call her.
His glances seemed to say, "And this is a country town a market these are farmers people live here all their lives!" But when he saw Sissy Langton he came forward eagerly. And perhaps it was just as well that he was at hand to be her squire through the busy little street, for the girl was seized with a new and unaccountable nervousness.
"Your mother'd say you could have the moon, too, if she had to climb a greased pole to get it. She'd start weaving door-mats for the Cingalese Hottentots if she thought they needed 'em." "But, Harry, he " "Your mother 'ain't got the bills of this shebang to worry about, and your mother don't mind having a college sissy a-laying around the house to support five years longer. I do."
And he did not appear to hold a grudge against his conqueror; on the contrary when others spoke of the latter as a "sissy," Sam defended him. "He may be a dude," said Sam; "I don't say he ain't. But he ain't no sissy." When pressed to tell why he was so certain, his answer was: "Because he don't act like one."
But, relinquishing Percival's hand, he held Aunt Harriet's. Percival stooped again, in obedience to a sign from Sissy. "Ask him to forgive me," she said. "He knows nothing, dear." "Ask him for me." "Horace," said Percival, "Sissy wants your forgiveness." "I've nothing to forgive," said Horace. "It is I who ought to ask to be forgiven.
Therefore, they repaired, with fluttering hearts, to the well- remembered booth. The flag with the inscription SLEARY'S HORSE- RIDING was there; and the Gothic niche was there; but Mr. Sleary was not there. In the extreme sharpness of his look out for base coin, Mr. Kidderminster, as at present situated, never saw anything but money; so Sissy passed him unrecognised, and they went in.
"Gawd be praised!" roared Tobe, inside the house. "Amen!" responded Jack, outside. "An' Tobe Cullum," announced Joe Trimble at Bishop's the next day, "have ordered up the fines' set o' shiny in Waco fer Sissy." "It beats me," said Newt Pinson; "but I allers did say that the women o' Jim-Ned, ez wives, air the outbeatenes' critters in creation!" The Courtship of Colonel Bill
The woman at last secures a handkerchief which looks the worse for Corkey's long, though reverent, custody. "Wash it, sissy, and show it up to Mrs. Lockwin. I reckon it will steer her back to the day when she felt pretty good toward me. Be careful of that Harpwood. He ain't no use. I know it. She give me that wipe her own self yes, she did! God bless her." The woman once more kisses the sick man.
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