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But when she touched the coat, the coat that had Lucia's letter in the breast-pocket, Rickman turned in his bed and made agonizing signs, struggling with the voice that perished in his burning throat. "Wot's the good," said she, "of a suit when yer can't wear it? As I telled you wot you wa No, the's no sorter use your making fyces at me.
Do you reely mean to tell me," she continued, vehemently nodding her head at the Queen, "that you think the's nothin' but Indians in America?" A murmur of indignation spread through the assembly caused by language and manners so little suited to the address of royalty. "The woman hath lost her wits!" said the Queen, dryly. "There 'tis again!" said Rebecca, testily.
"I'm not thinkin t' start back till Wednesday an' maybe Thursday, an' reach un Monday or Tuesday after. Bill won't be gettin' there till Tuesday, an' Dick an' Ed expects t' be there then t' spend Christmas an' hunt deer." "Hunt deer?" "They're needin' fresh meat, an' deer footin's good in th' meshes." "The's fine signs to th' nuth'ard from th' second lake in, 'bout twenty mile from here.
Nowdays the's a good many things I'd sooner have than custard pie, though," he said with a wink, "I gen'ally do eat two pieces jest to please Polly." John laughed. "What was the other thing?" he asked. "Other thing I once bought?" queried David. "Oh, yes, it was the fust hoss I ever owned. I give fifteen dollars fer him, an' if he wa'n't a dandy you needn't pay me a cent.
She's no better, an' th' Lard's not answerin' my prayer yet t' give back strength t' she an' make she walk." "'Twill be all right wi' th' maid, now. Th' doctor said they'd be makin' she well at th' hospital." "But the's no money t' send she t' th' hospital an' if she don't go th' doctor said she'd never be gettin' well." "Now don't be lettin' that worry ye, Mary.
"Come 'long come 'long, Phoebe!" she cried. "We'll soon put a stop to this! I'll find the selectmen o' this town an' see ef this cruelty to animals is agoin' on right here in open daylight. I guess the's laws o' some kind here, ef it is Bethlehem or Babylon!" Hot with indignation, the still protesting woman reached the outskirts of the throng and looked about her.
It lifts the Mother-Church away up in the sky, and fellowships it with the rare and select and exclusive little company of the THE's of deathless glory persons and things whereof history and the ages could furnish only single examples, not two: the Saviour, the Virgin, the Milky Way, the Bible, the Earth, the Equator, the Devil, the Missing Link and now The First Church, Scientist.
"Where you goin'?" as he got out of his chair. "Goin' to git my cap," he answered. "Dum the dum things! I don't believe the's a fly in Freeland County that hain't danced the wild kachuky on my head sence we set here. Be I much specked?" he asked, as he bent his bald poll for her inspection. "Oh, go 'long!" she cried, as she gave him a laughing push.
It was putty well out when Billy P. died, but the village has growed up to it. The's some good lots could be cut out on't, an' it backs up to the river where the current's enough to make a mighty good power fer a 'lectric light. I know some fellers that are talkin' of startin' a plant here, an' it ain't out o' sight that they'd pay a good price fer the river front, an' enough land to build on.
"We'll put a little more gristle to that 'fore we've done with you, young feller; an' I don't think any worse of ye fer anythin' the's gone by. You wasn't fairly responsible. Go right abaout your business an' you won't take no hurt." "You're white," said Dan, as Harvey regained the deck, flushed to the tips of his ears. "I don't feel it," said he. "I didn't mean that way. I heard what Dad said.
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