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Updated: May 13, 2025
Here! what's the matter with you, man?" "A boat! a boat!" gasped Jerry. "A boat! what for? Mine's got a plank out of it, and, if it hadn't, you couldn't use it now." "But he's gone down! I see him jump in!" "What!" yelled the miller, seizing Jerry excitedly by the collar. "Nonsense! He's gone back by now." "I I was on the bridge." "There ain't no bridge!" growled the miller: "swep' away."
"You'd better get up the girl's gone," Lorne had stuck his head into his sister's room to announce, while yet the bells were ringing and the rifles of the local volunteers were spitting out the feu de joie. "I've lit the fire an' swep' out the dining-room. You tell mother. Queen's Birthday, too I guess Lobelia's about as mean as they're made!"
For a time he could not remember, staring at the new portrait and scratching his head. Then it came to him suddenly: "Why, sure, I ought to ha' known without thinkin', seeing the other picture as often as every time I've swep' out the president's office. And Professor Grid always looked like him some, anyhow." The old woman leaned against the wall, her crutch trembling in her hand.
And as our boat swep' on over the glassy surface of the water that lay shinin' so smooth and level, not hintin' of the rocks and depths below, I methought, "Here we be all on us, men and wimmen, fishin' on the broad sea of life, and who knows what will tackle the lines we drop down into the mysterious depths?
Of course we knew it would be fur more genteel to go to the hotel, which loomed up stately, settin' back on its green lawn right in front of us, as the ship swep' into the harbor. But Josiah sez, "The tender ties of relationship hadn't ort to, in fact musn't be broke by us, and Miss Dagget would probable feel dretful hurt if she knowed we wuz to the Park and had passed her coldly by."
He's got as many as thirty mortgages round among the farmers some on land, and some on cattle." "How did he make the money?" demanded Cynthia, in surprise. "Hides an' wool an' bark turned 'em over an' swep' in. Gits a load, and Lyman Hull drives him down to Boston with that six-hoss team. Lyman gits drunk, Jethro keeps sober and saves."
"The young ladies air done swep and garnished this here room for they own comp'ny. Th'ain't nothin' the matter with that there hall room. It air plenty good enough fer mos' folks. I reckon yo' Miss Ann ain't a whit better'n my Miss Mildred and my Miss Nan ain't so good in fac', kase they's got the same blood she air an' mo' of it.
But then came the second thought: "Steady, Reuben! You are a man; be a man! Steady, Reuben; be a man!" "Yer mother," sez I, "yer mother it will break her heart!" "She leaves it all to you, father." "But the other the other, Cyrus leetle Lizzie ye know!" "She is content," sez he. A storm swep' through me like a cyclone.
Farmer Marler hastened off to see with master-eye that all went well elsewhere; the farm men slept tranquilly, stretched at full length, clasped hands for pillow; and old Dodden, sitting with crooked fingers interlaced to check their trembling betrayal of old age, told how in his youth he had "swep" a four-acre field single-handed in three days an almost impossible feat and of the first reaping machine in these parts, and how it brought, to his thinking, the ruin of agricultural morals with it.
Hunx, of Long Acre, put egsicution into my apartmince, and swep off every stick of my furniture. 'Wardrobe & furniture of a man of fashion. What an adwertisement George Robins DID make of it; and what a crowd was collected to laff at the prospick of my ruing!
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