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"Say, teacher," he said at length, "I'd like to ask a favor of you. If it ain't necessary, I wish you wouldn't say nothin' about that upsettin' business to the folks to home. It does sound so dum foolish! I'll never hear the last of it." Miss Dawes, who had been in high spirits, now took a moment for reflection. "All right!" she said, nodding vigorously. "We won't mention it, then.
Janet looked after him till the turn of the road hid him, saying to herself, "If the Lord would but take him in hand, just to show what He could make of him. Something to His praise, I hae no doubt Yankee though he be. God forgive me for saying it. I daresay I hae nae all the charity I might hae for them, the upsettin' bodies."
And I do confess, Passon, it's a bit upsettin' at my time of life to think as how I've lived in Abbot's Manor all these years, and now for all I can tell, me and William may have to shift. And where we'll go, the Lord only knows!" "Now don't anticipate misfortune, Mrs.
There's as muckle difference among folks here as elsewhere, whatever be your ticket. There are folk coming and going here, that in my country I would hate sent round to the back door; but naething short of the company of the minister himself will serve them. Gentlemen like the Judge, or like Mr Greenleaf here, will sit and bide the minister's time; but upsettin' bodies such as I could name "
If they were drowned they would ha' been washed in by this. The early tide would ha' brought them, for the boat couldn't carry them far without upsettin'." "I'll run away! I'll run away!" shouted Bridget. "Run then," said Lally. "It isn't you we're thinkin' of, but the poor ould lady, and the father and mother that's out in Africa." At this moment a white speck appeared on the sea.
She wa'n't real well after a while, an' the wuss she seemed to feel, the fiercer she was fer scrubbin' an' diggin' an' upsettin' things in gen'ral, an' bom-by she got so she couldn't keep a hired girl in the house more 'n a day or two at a time. She either wouldn't have 'em, or they wouldn't stay, an' more 'n half the time we was without one. This can't int'rist you much, can it?" said Mr.
"Yes, but think what we're goin' to pay you: six hundred dollars a year, and you'll have to raise most of it yourself, just for the fun of it." At this point the Junior Warden interrupted: "Now, Hepsey, what's the use of upsettin' the young man at the start. He's " "Never mind, Jonathan. I'm tellin' the truth, anyway.
It is true her victims' ignorance of the Scottish tongue must have taken the edge a little off her sharp words, but there was no mistaking her indignant testimony, as regarding "upsettin' bodies," and "meddlesome bodies," that bestowed too much time on their neighbours' affairs, and there was some indignation felt and expressed on the subject.
"Plumped himself down in a hen's nest, did he?" exclaimed the young proprietor of Oak Farm. "Wa'al, now, if you folks go to upsettin' the domestic arrangements of my fowls that way I'll have t' be charging you higher prices," and he laughed good-naturedly. "Ach! Dat is better," said Mr. Switzer, when he had cleansed himself. "How came it, do you think, Mr.
"It was all plain enough to me, an' plain enough to Transley," her father continued with remarkable calmness. "We seen it right from the first." "You're talking in riddles, Y.D.," his wife remonstrated. "You're getting Zen all worked up." "Jewelry seems to be mighty upsettin'," Y.D. commented. "There was nothin' like that in our engagement, eh, Jessie? Well, to come to the point.
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