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"It's Eden," thought the man, "as sure's th' world, made an' forgot with all its trimmin's innocence an' sweetness an' plenty, an' th' silence of perfect peace, not to overlook th' last unnecessary evil, th' livin' presence of his majesty, th' devil." Then the light died wholly and there came the disturbing sound of boots on the ringing stones.
I been ramblin' so long that I know the pedigrees of 'most everybody down this way. "Newspapers is all right, but folks get plumb hungry to git their news with human trimmin's. I recollec' I come mighty near gettin' in trouble, onct. Steve had some folks visitin' down to his ranch. They was new to the country, and seems they locked horns with a outfit runnin' sheep just south of Springerville.
Anyway, when she come home from school she come dressed in gay colors. She had on a yeller woosted dress with sky-blue trimmin's, a pink hat, a lilock veil, and a bunch of flowers in her bosom too many colors to look well, but she did it to break her yoke. This kinder stunted the mother, so she wuz easier to handle, bein' kinder dazed.
"I tell you, Pedro, they's a whole lot of fancy trimmin's this room ain't got, but it's quiet an' peaceable an' it'll suit our purpose to a gnat's hind leg." He dropped into a chair and reached for the rack of chips. "It's a habit of mine to set facin' the door," he continued, as he proceeded to remove the disks and arrange them into stacks.
With a preacher and a license and all the trimmin's. We'll certainly have one all-whoopin' weddin' when I come rackin' in, Petty! Kiss me good-by, like a nice sweetheart and just dream once in a while of Louisiana, won't you?" "I'll say your name in my prayers," she assured him, watching him doubtfully and hopefully as he wheeled his horse, striving to keep back the tears.
It is hoped that Saxon readers will see this subtle joke when I explain that "delirium" should come before "trimmin's." Underneath the incredulity of the lower classes and be it observed that their incredulity is obviously based on an instinctive feeling that the claims and arguments of their own party are alike preposterous underneath this vein of unbelief is a vein of extraordinary credulity.
Der yer believe it, she'd downed all ther flash picters that ther impenitent thief at Galveston hed coaxed me inter buyin', and in place hed hung up some small engravins, not gaudy-like, but jest catchin'; hed taken' off all the sassy trimmin's from ther curtains, and the hull room war changed, just ez tho' er benediction had been pernounced thar.
"Do you think he'll understand, Ann?" "He'll be a fool if he doesn't!" "And make allowances? He knows how poor we are and how busy I have to be." "He does so, my dear. But, if it's goin' t' comfort you any, there's that corset cover you made me last Christmas. I ain't never wore it; I ain't dared to with all them trimmin's an' lace insertion, an' me s' bony here an' there.
I don't see why somethin' plain and sensible like 'Woman wanted to do dishes and clean house for three men, wouldn't be all right; but no, it's got to have more fancy trimmin's than a Sunday bunnit. Foolishness, I call it." "You'd have a whole lot of women answerin' that advertisement, now wouldn't you?" snorted Captain Perez hotly.
In deference to this ceremony a hush fell immediately we were seated, and this was in courtesy to me, who must inquire how each would take her tea. I think that this conversation never greatly varied, as: "Mrs. Toplady?" I said at once, the rest being understood. "Cream and sugar, if you please," said that great Amanda heartily, "or milk if it's milk. I take the tea for the trimmin's."
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