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Updated: June 24, 2025
"A Home-school! that's what the Cup-o'-Cold-Water Lady said it was, and when I axed her to say it plainer and not so polite, she done 'splain as how the chillens, our chillens, war to be gathered in from everywhere even factories, and teached and and mothered! That's her word mothered!" "Don't them-all think us-all is mothers?" Mrs. Moore sniffed contemptuously.
"It was this er way. In them days us-all and the Hertfords was equals. The plantation lying off to the east of the old Hertford home place belonged to us-all" many and many were the quarts of berries and bushels of nuts Sandy had gathered from there! "but it slipped away it's all gone years past. My grandfather and Lansing Hertford was close friends none closer.
She looked at him like a child trying to understand his mood. "Oh!" she said presently, "I 'most forgot. The minister has gone to a burying back in the hills; he'll be gone a right long time. Bill Trim, who carries all the news, told me to-day." "Where is he, Nella-Rose?" Something seemed tightening around Truedale's heart. "Us-all don't know; he left it written on his door."
"That stranger," said Greeley, hitting the nail on the head with a violence that brought his audience to an upright position, "ain't nothing short of, to my mind, than" he glanced at Teale "well, she ain't, and that's my opinion! She comes loaded with facts up to her teeth. Knows all the names, and says she's going to settle down over to Trouble Neck and live along with us-all quite a spell.
"Us-all mean to stand by you. I expect you-all ain't over-rich either, and we-all can help in a right practical way. What do you say, little Miss Cyn, to coming down to the factory and doing light work and getting mighty good pay?" A new horror shook Cynthia's pallid face; but Crothers met it with a laugh. "Don't take on without reason," he soothed.
"I reckon he'll do you a right smart bad one some day, son." "Dad!" "Yes, son. Now, why didn't the old general come an' tell us-all 'bout the joke? Why didn't he give us-all a chance to jine in the laugh? Then this lad's father why didn't he come back to Lost Hollow and find out 'bout Queenie Walden, as was?" Martin's voice sank into a whisper, but the words had a terrific effect upon Sandy.
Morley, you're right noble but I don't believe Sandy's like that. He's just waiting 'till he has a mighty fine something to bring back to us-all, and then we'll see him coming up The Way as brave and smiling as can be." Martin shook his head slowly. "I don' doubt it, lil' Miss Cynthia. It's seven long years now!
The night he died in Miss Lowe's cabin when she war tryin' her charm on him I jes' war right glad, for the factory down to The Forge war jes' about done and I war thankful he couldn't get caught in the wheels agin! I tell yo', Rose-Lily, the mother in us-all don't get a chance in The Hollow, but the Cup-o'-Cold-Water Lady don' say things is goin' to be different.
The Yankee he don' ax who Anna Isabel was, an' lil' Miss Ann said right stiff, 'She be my turkey she be our Christmas dinner. An' jes' then Anna Isabel stalked straight-er-way befo' dat man Sheridan an' lil' Miss Ann pointed an' says 'There's Anna Isabel! Well, we-all laughed an' I will say this for that Yank, he was powerful 'spectful to us-all.
He makes us-all feel like we war dirt under his feet. I clar' I'd like to work an evil charm on him! Ole Mr. Morley he don' take naturally to the woods an' leaves them young gem'men to themselves. I keep the do' closed 'twixt them an' me he makes me feel like there was traps set fo' my feet." "You must be having a real gay time up there!"
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