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"'Tain't likely, not after the way he left his boarding place, if that Lindsay woman didn't lie." Pennold laid aside his pipe and frowned thoughtfully, as steps echoed from the rickety porch and a knock sounded upon the door. "He's a lightweight, every way you take him he'd never stick anywhere." "Maybe he's come to try an' get you into somethin'," Mame suggested.
"It's the sun," she went on. "That's what it is driving in the sun all yesterday. It's it's been too much for you." Again the man passed a hand across his brow. But this time he shook his head. "'Tain't the sun, Jess," he said vaguely. "It's it's oil!" For a moment the woman stared. Then she turned to the gaping twins, and hustled them out of the room to play.
You little white han's gib fancy teches dat ain't in my big black han'. Arter all, tain't de han's; it's de min'. Dere's my darter Mis Watson. Neber could larn her much mo'n plain cookin'. Dere's a knack at dese tings dat's bawn in one. It's wot you granpa used ter call genus, an' you allus hab it, eben when you was a chile an' want ter muss in de kitchen."
These were his closing words, and Coomber, who had listened with eager, rapt attention, stayed only for the people to move towards the door, and then followed the speaker into the little vestry. "Beg pardon, sir," he said, pausing at the door, "but 'tain't often as I gets the chance of hearing such words as I've heard from you to-night, and so I hopes you'll forgive me if I asks for a bit more.
His hundred and sixty acres lay on the western slope of the Continental Divide fifty-five miles away. Snow lay deep over every one of those intervening, upstanding miles! The Parson was concerned about my going alone. "'Tain't safe to cross that old range alone any time of year, let alone the dead of winter. Hain't no one else agoing from here?" I inquired, but it seemed there was not.
"My father, my poor father!" was all Richard could say, as he gazed at the motionless form upon the litter. "Reckon he's hurt pretty bad," said Sandy Stone, a mason, who had been the first to be called to the scene of the accident. "'Tain't outside so much as it's in. Wait till we get him home."
"A magpie? I don't think I ever saw one in my life. What was it like?" enquired Austin. "Don't matter what it was like," replied Lubin, sententiously. "But it was just outside your bedroom window. You'd better be on the look-out." "What for?" asked Austin. "Did it say it was coming back?" "'Tain't nothing to laugh at," said Lubin, nodding his head. "A magpie bodes ill-luck.
That she did not dare put any more money into the place except the interest and the taxes until prospects were brighter. "'Well, he said mean old hunks! 'money is dreadful tight right now, and I don't see how I can let you have a thousand any longer. 'Tain't in the bill of agreement. "Mother said: 'Mr. Strout, when you sold me the place you said I could have plenty of time to pay for it.
I 'spec' I'm the most forgettingest little boy they is. But I'm so glad I'm so good. I ain't never going to be bad no more; so you might just as well quit begging me to come over and swing, you need n't ask me no more, 'tain't no use a tall."
Who in the name of all the mad devils is he?" he asked, wildly. He was confounded by the cold and philosophical tone of the answer: "'Tain't my place to trouble about that, sir nor yours I guess." "Isn't it!" shouted Carter. "Why, he has carried the lady off." The steward was looking critically at the lamp and after a while screwed the light down. "That's better," he mumbled. "Good God!
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