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Bedad, if I can't buy it I'll stale it. We're goin' to fight to-morry, an' it may be it's the last chance we'll have for a dhrink, unless there's more lik'r now in the other worrld than Dives got." The brigade was bivouacked in some invisible region, amid the damp, misty darkness of a September night.
Andy, also having received a letter from Dora, ventured to call on Maggie to express in his sincerely simple way his sympathy for her grief, and to discuss with her what was now to be done for the homeless girl in the old country. "We must bring her over, Andy." "I know that," said the young man. "I'll draw all my money out of the Shamrock Savings Bank to-morry and send her a ticket.
Now that you-all is yere, however, I'll give you notice that to-morry you can begin to do your own cookin' till you hears further word from me. I'm goin' to be otherwise an' more congenially engaged. Most likely I'll be back in my kitchen ag'in in a day or two; but I makes no promises. An' ontil sech time as I shows up, you-all can go scuffle for yourse'fs.
That anyone had seen her meet the man by the light of the summer's moon had never entered Rebecca's head for one moment. "And I don't steal from the minister's house, nuther," assured Tess, with a smile. "I brings ye some berries to-morry, and gives them to ye. And ye can keep the Dominie's money for a rag of a ribbon to light the coachman's eyes with."
At the end of the lane, the candle in Skinner's window flickered them an invitation to stop. Tessibel answered their knock and embarrassedly offered each a chair as the door closed behind them. "It ain't ended?" she faltered with a hasty glance at the three stolid faces, the post of Daddy's bed supporting the supple young form. "To-morry," replied Jake Brewer.
Half timidly 'Lena rang the door-bell, dropping her veil over her face that she might not be recognized. "I want to see your master," she said to the woman who answered her ring, and who in some astonishment replied, "Bless you, miss, Mas'r Atherton done gone to Lexington and won't be home till to-morry." "Gone!" repeated 'Lena in a disappointed tone. "Oh, I'm so sorry."
"How long will it be before we get there?" "Wal, some time to-morry mornin. To-night we've got nothin at all to do but to sweep through the deep while the stormy tempests blow in the shape of a mild sou-wester; so don't you begin your usual game of settin up. You ain't a mite of good to me, nor to yourselves, a stayin here.
But I know that sometime Tess, will you pray for me?" "I ain't doin' no prayin' to-day," replied Tess. "To-morry, mebbe.... Aw! I wanted the student to pray for Daddy, and to like me " Teola never forgot the scene that followed. The fisher-girl settled in a heap upon the floor, bowed the tired head, and wept. "Tessibel! Tess," called Teola, touching the girl's shoulder, "listen. I'll tell him!
So would Daddy Skinner come to her, snatched from the shadow of an ignominious death, through some miracle of God's goodness. "It air over to-morry?" she stammered, holding no grudge against Ezra Longman for his untimely joke. "Yep." "Then he air comin' home to-morry night?" she said almost in a whisper.
Don't! don't!" gasped Teola. "Some day, after the babe and I are dead " Teola had come close to the fisher-girl, her pale face thrust beseechingly forward. Tess hesitated; then flung out her arms and drew the minister's daughter into them. Her eyes were filled with awe indescribable. "I's a mean brat to make ye say that," she faltered. "I brings the kid to-morry to the church.
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