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"Poor Jerushy took it dreadful hard, and the nabers was a wonderin' all the time how she could get along for you know Mr. Lawson, that a farm ain't much good without a man or hired help. Wal, sir, what do you think it was no more nor three or four days after the funeral that a letter came to inform the widder that she was to receive $1000 for her late husband's policy.
"I had a good look at her 'long about five o'clock from the woods across from her house. She's a heap sight older but I knowed her all right." "You are sure?" "Sure as my name is " "Sh!" "Course I'm sure. She was Owen Carter's widder. He was killt by a tree fallin' on him. Oh, I got a good memory. I can't afford to have a bad one. I remember her as plain as if it wuz yestiday."
"I see it all," says the widder; "in a fit of temporary insanity he rashly converted hisself into sassages!" And so he had, Sir, said Mr. Weller, looking steadily into Mr.
And, to be sure, being of a widder, she a-done as she pleased, only she didn't want to give no offense to her old father, who was very rich and very proud of her, who was his onliest child he ever had in the world; so to make a long rigamarole short, they runned away, so they did, Mr. Brudenell and her, and they got married private, and never let the old man know it long as ever he lived "
"I shouldn't have expected you to have thought o' that," said the other unkindly. "Besides, they have stewardesses on big ships, an' what's the difference? She's a sort o' relation o' mine, too cousin o' my wife's, a widder woman, and a good sensible age, an' as the doctor told her to take a sea voyage for the benefit of her 'elth, she's coming with me for six months as cook.
"You'll remember you 'ave seen me once, I mean?" "And there's another thing afore I go," ses Silas. "I've left a widder, and if she don't get 'elp from some one she'll starve." "Pore thing," ses Bill. "Pore thing." "If you 'ad died afore me," ses Silas, "I should 'ave looked arter your good wife wot I've now put in a sound sleep as long as I lived." Bill didn't say anything.
Seek her in a little while, my lone lorn Dan'l, and that'll be but right! but not as you are now. Sit ye down, and give me your forgiveness for having ever been a worrit to you, Dan'l what have my contraries ever been to this! and let us speak a word about them times when she was first an orphan, and when Ham was too, and when I was a poor widder woman, and you took me in.
And I told him that it didn't mean that. Sez I, "The Widder Albert wouldn't come over here and go to millin', she nor none of her family." "But," sez he, "the name must mean sunthin'. Do you s'pose it is where folks get the victory over things? If it is, I'd give a dollar bill to get a grist ground out here, and," sez he, in a sort of a coaxin' tone, "le's stop and get some victory, Samantha."
"I think she's over helpin' nurse the Widder Flannery's sick kids this afternoon. They've got chicken pox. Might go over there and see her if you're in a rush." "We didn't say we wanted to borrow money," Bill retorted to the jocular latter part of the bartender's speech. "What time will she be here?" "About ten, I guess," was the more courteous reply.
"Yes, but how are we to see a squat roof with lalocks and pineys on this beastly night?" Howard rejoined, in a tone which told that he was not anticipating his trip to the widder Biggs's. "Drive on, for heaven's sake," he continued, "and don't upset us. It is darker than a pocket." "No, sir, not if I can help it. I never knew the horses so 'fraid.
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