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He was leaning over the bed, but Kate drew away from him, and Nancy pulled him back, saying, "Get off with you, you goosey gander! What for should you bother a poor girl to know if sugar's sweet, and if she's willing to change a sweetheart for a husband?" It was done. One act nay, half an act; a word nay, no word at all, but only silence. The daring venture was afoot.
"Now," continued Grandmother, "shake the berries till the sugar's well mixed in and then set the pan on the stove." While the berries were cooking Grandmother had her hunt out a nice jelly glass, one that the top fitted on firmly; wash and dry it ready for the jelly. Then Mary Jane took a big spoon and Grandmother took a big spoon and they stood by the stove and watched the jam boil.
It is no longer a relation, it is an absolute. What else can this mean than that the glass of water, the sugar, and the process of the sugar's melting in the water are abstractions, and that the Whole within which they have been cut out by my senses and understanding progresses, it may be in the manner of a consciousness?
Say, Betsy, I think that apple sauce is ready to be sweetened. You do it, will you? I've got my hands in the biscuit dough. The sugar's in the left-hand drawer in the kitchen cabinet." "Oh, MY!" cried Betsy, dismayed. "I don't know how to cook!" Aunt Abigail laughed and put back a strand of curly white hair with the back of her floury hand.
Your aunt said this morning that what I ought to ha' said into it was, 'Miss Leicester, we're all out o' sugar. But the sugar's goin' to last longer when you're gone. I expect we shall miss you," said the good woman, with great feeling. Now, everything was to be done next summer: all the things that Betty had forgotten and all that she had planned and could not carry out.
And in those days there were lots of trees easier to come at." "It's great timber!" repeated Bob. "That 'sugar's' eight feet through if it's an inch!" "Nearer nine," said California John. "It'll be some years' work to estimate and plot all this," mused Bob. "If it's so important a watershed, what do they want it plotted for? They'll never want to cut it."
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