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In short, he was spoken of by his neighbors as "a hard-working cuss, and tol'ably well fixed." No grace had come or ever could come into his life. Back of him were generations of men like himself, whose main business had been to work hard, live miserably, and beget children to take their places when they died.
In short, he was spoken of by his neighbors as "a hard-working cuss, and tol'ably well fixed." No grace had come or ever could come into his life. Back of him were generations of men like himself, whose main business had been to work hard, live miserably, and beget children to take their places when they died.
Still, when auntie had called Dotty a tol'ably good girl, she must have known it was a mistake! Dotty did not have a fever; but for several days she was not at all well, and spent most of the time in her grandmamma's room, on the lounge. It would have been a good opportunity for reflection, if Katie had not been in the house.
I wur travellin' as bad a bit o' Injun ground as could been found in all the country, and I'd seen Injun sign two or three times that same day. It's true thur wur a good grist o' buffler-chips about, tol'ably dry, and I mout have made some sort o' a fire out o' that; an' at last I did make a fire arter a fashion. I did it this a way.
She was not as yet very well acquainted with the English language, and did not know what "tolerably" meant; she supposed it meant "remarkably." "It's so queer," she thought, "that auntie should tell my mamma I've been tol'ably good! Why, I haven't, I know I haven't: I've been tol'ably bad!"
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