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"And Miss Stewart? is she with her?" "Miss Stewart? I dunno," said the woman, with a strange look about the corners of her mouth. "I dunno: I never see her; and the family was all away afore I came here to take charge. They left the kitchen-end open for me; and my sister-in-law that's Hiram Splinter's wife she made all the 'rangements.
Hiram has been riding all over the country for him this afternoon." "I'll go down to him," I said, preparing to rise. "No you won't;" and Mrs. Splinter's strong arm, as well as Bessie's soft hand, patted me down again. Dr. Bolster pronounced, as well he might, that all danger was over.
I was still dressed in the clothes that I had worn when was it? last week? when I had started for the Shaker meeting. "How long?" I said feebly. "Only this morning, you darling boy, it all happened; and here we are, snug at Mrs. Splinter's, and Mary Jane is getting the cottage ready for us as fast as ever she can." How good that beef-tea was! Bessie knew well what would give it the sauce piquante.
I penciled feebly, with a very shaky hand, my request that the doctor would call at Hiram Splinter's, at his earliest convenience that evening, to perform the ceremony of marriage between his young friend, Bessie Stewart, and the subscriber. Hiram's eldest son, a youth of eight, was swinging on the gate under our window.
I penciled feebly, with a very shaky hand, my request that the doctor would call at Hiram Splinter's, at his earliest convenience that evening, to perform the ceremony of marriage between his young friend, Bessie Stewart, and the subscriber. Hiram's eldest son, a youth of eight, was swinging on the gate under our window.
He was not well prepared in spite of the fact that he had worked hard for a part of his final year in the preparatory school. Greek? He detested the subject. Even his father came in for a share of blame, for if he had not insisted upon his taking it Will never would have entered Splinter's room.
Splinter's parlor through the soft spring twilight, while Bessie held what seemed to me interminable conferences with Mary Jane. It was not a brilliant ceremony so far as the groom was concerned.
He could feel as well as see, or at least he fancied that he saw, the drawing down of Splinter's lips that presaged an outburst of sarcasm. Will had been permitted to go through his task without interruption and then the professor had said dryly, "That will do, Mr. Phelps. That is what one might term 'making Greek' of it. It certainly is justice neither to the Greek nor to the English."
"In what way?" "I don't know it as I ought to." "Is that 'Splinter's' fault?" "No, it's mine. You know how hard I worked in the closing half of my last year in the high school, but that didn't, and I suppose couldn't, make up for what I hadn't done before." "Are you working hard now?" "On my Greek?" "Yes." "I'm putting more time on that than on everything else."
"I don't want you to lose any recitation because I am here," said his father quietly. "I sha'n't want to come again if my coming interferes with your work, and as it is I have serious doubts " "All right, pop," replied Will patting his father affectionately on the shoulder. "I'll go to Splinter's class, though I know he'll 'go for' me too.
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