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Updated: May 9, 2025
Some of the stores, however, manage to evade the law rather cleverly as spirits are not SOLD, "my friend" pays a shilling more for his fig of tobacco, and his wife an extra sixpence for her suet; and they smile at the store-man, who in return smiles knowingly at them, and then glasses are brought out, and a bottle produced, which sends forth NOT a fragrant perfume on the sultry air.
I I told her 'twas a present, but She couldn't say another word, poor child. She just turned and almost ran from the room. That was last night. She went away this morning, I suppose. I didn't see her again, so I don't know how she did come out with the store-man." "Too bad too bad!" sympathized Miss Maggie. They never gave presents to each other even at Christmas.
"Oh, just one Mexican don't mean anything anywhere, but the war in Mexico has something to do with our going to Santa Fé, even if Uncle Esmond is just a nice little store-man. That's all a girl knows about things," Beverly insisted. Mat opened her big eyes wide and looked straight at the boy.
"But Uncle Esmond hasn't anything to do with the war, nor soldiers, only like he has been doing here," the girl went on. "He's a store-man, a merchant, and I guess he's just about as good as a general a colonel, anyhow. But he's too short to fight, and too fat to run." "He isn't any coward," Beverly objected. "Who said he was?" Mat inquired.
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