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Updated: May 27, 2025
She had been trying, poor Nannie! to make up her mind about many small, crowding affairs incident to the situation. In these weeks since Mrs. Maitland's death, Nannie, for the first time in her life, found herself obliged to answer questions. Harris asked them: "You ain't a-goin' to be livin' here, Miss Nannie; 'tain't no use to fill the coal-cellar, is it?"
The train's due, but 'tain't here yit. If you run you can make it." Issy took a card from his pocket. It was the business card of the firm to whom he sold his quahaugs. On the back of the card he wrote in pencil as follows: "Mr. Beriah Higgins, your daughter Gertrude is going to meet Sam'l Bartlett at the Baptist Church in Trumet at 8 P.M. to-night and get married to him.
Hewitt and the landlord, now thoroughly startled, searched everywhere, but to no purpose. "What should he go off the place for?" asked Kentish, in a sweat of apprehension. "'Tain't chilly a bit it's warm. He didn't want no sweater; never wore one before. It was a piece of kid to be able to clear out. Nice thing, this is. I stand to win two years' takings over him. Here you'll have to find him."
The young doctor restrained the crushing answer that rose to his lips. He had learned caution in that neighborhood. "I couldn't say," he said indifferently. "'Tain't no religion," said Slocum emphatically; "it's jest pure fas'nation. Did ye look at his eye? It's like a rattlesnake's, and them wimmin are like birds. They're frightened of him but they hev to do jest what he 'wills' 'em.
"Storm kain't tech th' shack," he said proudly. "She 's built like a ship, t' stan' any win'. She's warm, too, an' thet Injun, he brings us plenty of wood. An' they's grub 'nough t' las'." The evangelist was politely attentive. "They's jes' one man thet might come botherin' 'em," Lancaster went on. "But 'tain't likely he'll see these parts before spring. An' Ah don' b'lieve he'll come then."
He always does when I talk to him." "Then suppose I do the talkin'?" "Oh, you can make him do just as you wish. But all right, Mr. Shoop. And you will really let Bondsman decide?" "'Tain't accordin' to rules, but seein' it's you " Bud called to the big Airedale. Bondsman trotted in, nosed Dorothy's hand, and looked up at his master. "Come 'ere!" commanded Shoop brusquely. "Stand right there!
"This is me, Ma'am," said the doctor, rolling up to the closet door; "this has the honour to be a myself, bringing my service to the feet of Miss Ringgan." " 'Tain't very elegant," said the sharp lady.
"'Tain't no case for the law, 'sposin' her folks don't like it; an' I'll wager they do." "You old lunatic," said the policeman, "what are you encouragin' of her for? Who ever saw a little lady like that sellin' peanuts in the streets! I ain't goin' to allow it nohow; it's drawin' a crowd; and, as to the law, she nor you ain't any right to be sellin' 'em here without a license.
They was sure to come in useful some day, she said; but that day never come, and there they be, moth-and-rust-corrupted, sure enough! Well, 'tain't no use layin' up treasures upon earth. We all find that out when we come to clear up after fifty years' savin'." Next morning proved fine and sunny, and great numbers of people came to the auction.
Then an other despairing thought struck Shorty: "'Tain't right," he communed with Si and the rest, "that the bridegroom should have all the good clothes. The bride should have the boss togs o' the two. If we was only back near Nashville she should have a layout that'd out-rag the Queen o' Sheby, if it took every cent there was in the company.
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