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"Let's bide here till the rain stops," suggested Jamie. "The wind's fair, and if she keeps up and don't turn too strong we'll make Fort Pelican by evenin' whatever, if we goes," David objected. "'Twon't be so bad, once we're out and gets used to un," said Andy. "No, 'twon't be so bad," urged David.
"Tell us about it." "Twon't take long," said Hagan, trying to smile. "She's my wife. The sickness took all we had. I I kinder got behind in the rent and things. They were going to fire us out of here to-morrow. And there wasn't any money for the medicine, and and the things she had to have. Maybe you wouldn't have done it but I did.
The sessions had invariably ended the same way Hiram Higgins, with the back of his hand underneath his chin, would stroke earnestly at his chin-whiskers, and remark: "Well, now, Mr. Madison, 'twon't do you a mite of harm to go out there an' see for yourself.
If you have, suppose we kill one an' roast it 'twon't take long." This suggestion met with approval, and with the help of Kintchin, helloaed out of a nap behind the smoke-house, a pig was slaughtered and barbecued. In Old Jasper's house that night there was a feast a strange picture, three old women at table and an old negro, with watery mouth, standing in the door.
"Wa-al I might," confessed Dexter, looking her over with a quizzical smile. "But us'ally the Days ain't in no hurry." "Then this is one Day who is in a hurry," she said, briefly. "What is your charge for delivering the trunk, sir?" "Oh 'bout a quarter, Miss. And gimme that suitcase, too. 'Twon't cost ye no more, and I'll git 'em there before Jason and you reach the house.
If one could have seen Henry Burns's eyes twinkle, when they had found the three a few moments later, however, they would have thought differently. "Tim, you're all right," he said. "But how could we get him away from here?" "Why, get the wagon," said Young Joe. "Come on, George, will you? I'll go down to the house for it, if you'll join. 'Twon't take more'n half an hour.
"What will you do, then?" asked Joel, pausing on his way to the door. "I'm sure I don't know," said Polly, getting down on her knees to examine the crack; "I shall have to stuff it with paper, I s'pose." "'Twon't stay in," said Joel, scornfully; "don't you know you stuffed it before, last week?"
"Drat ye, ye brute!" cried Moll, tottering back, "an' twice drat ye!" She swayed forward on her cane. "Ye can lick me till I die, an' 'twon't change yer own life any. It'll only add to the sufferin' ye got to go through yerself." Waldstricker's arm went up again, but Helen grasped it frantically. "Ebenezer, don't!... Don't strike her any more. Please!... Go home, Mother Moll.... Please go!
A broad grin stretched across the old sailor's face, then he laughed aloud. "Did ye hear that, Jack?" he cried; "here's a lad what's goin' to Culm to live, an' he wants to know ef it's a town!" "'Twon't take him long to find out arter he gets there," drawled Mr. Snape.
She ran toward it with a conviction of calamity which only took concrete form when she heard her brother's call issuing from the depths of the earth. "The well," she cried with self-accusing anguish. "The old well." But when she stood by its edge and sent her voice ringing down into its depth, it was steady and strong. "I'm going for help, Joel. 'Twon't be much of any time now.
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