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Updated: July 9, 2025
"Well, I was prowling about in the woods by myself one Sunday afternoon, when an awful snow-storm come on, a big blizzard which staggered the stripped trees like as if 'twould tumble 'em all down, and end our work for us. I was bolting for camp as fast as I was able, when I tripped over something which was a'most covered over in a heavy drift. 'Great Scott! says I, 'it's a man! And 'twas too.
"And I will say as I ha' got the full o' my bargain," quoth she. Whereat so wroth was I that I said naught, knowing that if I did open my lips or move my hand 'twould be to curse her with th' one and cuff her with t'other. By-and-by saith she, "And where, by'r lay'kin, wilt thou find a man good enough in thy eyes for th' lass?" saith she.
It makes people take notice, and 'twould be more becoming she should drop it, seeing she will have to earn her own living in service.
Weel, I'll be naming no names 'twould but mak' hard feeling, you'll ken, and to no good end. But it's sae, richt enough. And it's especially sae in Britain, I think, when some great favorite of the stage goes into the halls to do a turn. They're grand places to teach a sense of real value, the halls!
"Why, Melviny's one of the institutions of Sefton Falls. Nothin' goes on in the way of tribulation without Melviny bein' to it." "Oh, I see. She's a nurse." "No, you couldn't really call her that," replied Jane thoughtfully. "An' still I don't know but you might as well tag her that way as any. 'Twould be hard to tell just what Melviny is.
The butcher's wife said fervently, "May you long be spared to each other!" The old weaver exclaimed, "'Twould be an ojus pity to spoil two houses wid ye!" While the woman who sells apples at the station capped all by wishing the couple "a long life and a happy death together." No wonder poor Salemina slipped and twisted her ankle as she alighted from the carriage!
'Cardenly, twixt 'em, they asked for a child from one o' those Lunnon societies same as it might ha' been these Barnardo children an' Mary was sent down to 'em, in a candle-box, I've heard. 'Then Mary is chance-born. I never knowed that, said Jabez. 'Yet I must ha' heard it some time or other ... 'No. She ain't. 'Twould ha' been better for some folk if she had been.
"'Twould be a pleasant thing for us all to have a day together, and a good dinner," suggested Mistress Stoddard, "with figs, dates, and some of those fine crackers and jellies, and of course, a good fish chowder; 'twould be a treat indeed," and so it was decided that the neighborhood should be bidden to come as the guests of John Nelson and Anne for a day's pleasuring.
You would not sure do that! QUEEN. Why not? ALVA. 'Twould counteract the services we might Render in secret to you. I fain would know what secret projects, duke, Your sovereign's spouse can have to form with you, Or, priest! with you her husband should not know? Think you that I am innocent or guilty? DOMINGO. Strange question! ALVA. Should the monarch prove unjust And at this time
Prob'ly he's goin' to die on our hands 'twould be just like his unmerciful nerve. Pass me that bottle of ammonia, Zeke. "Then Keno hollered for me. He'd pried the Majoress' mouth open, stuck a cork in to it keep it so, and then fed her the revivifier. She wasn't a handsome woman at the best, but with that cork in her mouth !
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