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Updated: May 3, 2025
"The old gent asked them all their names and ages and he was so pleased and said he thought it was just fine for you to raise five sons, so I didn't have no heart to tell him no different. 'Twan't none of my business anyhow. Then 'Them Three' kept talking about stepdaddy, and your Uncle Issachar asks 'Who the devil is he? Did my niece marry again? And I told him as how Mr.
"In response to his call three of his understudies came on with headlong greeting. "'You are Beth, aren't you? Ptolemy asked me. Then he drew me aside and in mysterious whispers told me where you were and that you had written me to join you here. He added that stepdaddy never remembered to mail letters. I went within and interviewed Huldah who confirmed his information.
At that, though, he didn't win out until he'd almost broken the long distance record as a patient waiter, and I understand it was only when little Miss Polly got old enough to hint to Mommer that Uncle Bruce would suit her first rate as a stepdaddy that the match was finally pulled off. And now Polly, who's barely finished at boardin' school, has announced that she intends to get married herself.
"I would have told him the truth, and how our parents had deserted us, and how mudder took us in when we were homeless and was bringing us up like her own because she hadn't got any, and how stepdaddy wanted to turn us out, and she wouldn't let him, and then he would have decided against stepdaddy and given mudder the money so she could keep us."
"People will think you have consoled yourself very speedily for the death of your first husband," I observed, as we were en route. "Why, what do you mean, Lucien?" "You know Diogenes addresses me as stepdaddy. It is the only word he speaks plainly." "Oh!" she exclaimed in perturbation, "I never thought of that! Well, we can explain to everyone, or I'll teach them to leave off the 'step."
Then on a sudden inspiration, he once more laid hold of the bridle and began to speak volubly in a hoarse undertone: "W'y, name o' God, Mr. Stoddard! Who should have a better right to that thar patent than Buck and me? I'm the gal's stepdaddy, an' he's the man she's goin' to wed." Some peculiar quality in the silence of Gray Stoddard seemed finally to penetrate the old fellow's understanding.
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