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"Just arrived?" he inquired. "Just," said Austen. "I thought you'd get here sooner or later," said Mr. Bascom. "Some folks try stayin' away, but it ain't much use. You'll find the honourable Hilary doing business at the same old stand, next to the governor, in Number Seven up there." And Mr. Bascom pointed to the well-known window on the second floor. "Thanks, Brush," said Austen, indifferently.
I've told Pop that, and he thinks so too, but Marm, she don't believe in it, and my stayin' there is all her doin'. I've been wantin' to get away for ever so long, but I didn't want to be took off in a bag; but now that I'm out of that horrid hole I don't want to go back, and if you'll take me home to Pop, I know he won't let me go back, and he'll pay you real handsome besides. 'Who's your Pop? says I. 'He's Mr.
'Tis a dreadful complaint, ain't it? But there's mothers as is not loike to die of it." And she laughed half tearfully. She had been nearer breaking down that morning than she would admit, and her nerves were still a little unsteady. "Andy told me at recess Mike was stayin' home to wash, and I didn't know what to think.
"Wal," he said grumblingly, "mebbe you Noo Yorkers has points mebbe, I sez." Then he dismissed the subject with an impatient shrug of his drooping shoulders, and went off at a fresh angle. "Say, I wus kind o' wonderin' some 'bout that flea-bitten shadder, Joe Nelson. He's amazin' queer stayin' 'round here. He's foxin' some, too.
An' from what I hears, Miss Maryllia won't be wantin' no more London folks for a goodish bit o' time, an' we'll all 'ave peace to turn round an' look at ourselves an' find out whether we're sane or silly, for the two old leddies what is stayin' on give no trouble at all, an' that Mr.
You tell me that you have met with my friend Redfeather." "Yes, sir; I spent a week or two with him last fall I found him stayin' with his tribe, and we started to come down here together." "Ah, that is the very point," exclaimed the pastor, that I wish to inquire about.
The Airedale grew rigid, and his spike of a tail cocked up straight and stiff. Bud Shoop waved his hands helplessly. "I might 'a' knowed it! A lady can always get a man steppin' on his own foot when he tries to walk around a argument with her. You done bribed me and corrupted Bondsman. But I'm stayin' right by what I said." Dorothy jumped up and took Bud's big hand in her slender ones.
"You've said it," laughed Martha, leaning over the wheel so as to press his fingers in her warm palm. "There ain't no doubt 'bout that skinny fright being 'Miss, and there ain't no doubt 'bout her stayin' so. Ann Gossaway she is, and Ann Gossaway she'll die. Is she took bad?" she continued, a merry, questioning look lighting up her kindly face, her lips pursed knowingly.
I was stayin' then at your Uncle James's, and one afternoon your ma sent for your Aunt Eunice and me to come over and take tea. So we went over, and there was several of the neighbors invited in, Squire Bramhall's wife, and them your ma used to go with most, and amongst the rest, of course, Miss Jaynes.
"You see, I had to make my choice, too. My aunt wrote that she needed me. It wouldn't have been right for me to desert her and go to France to nurse other people." "So it's because of her you're stayin' here?" "Yes."
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