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Weller shook his head, as he replied with a sigh, 'I've done it once too often, Sammy; I've done it once too often. Take example by your father, my boy, and be wery careful o' widders all your life, 'specially if they've kept a public-house, Sammy. Having delivered this parental advice with great pathos, Mr.
"But if their husbands die off?" suggested a puzzled listener. "The husband's successor marries his widders," explained Brother Jarrum. "Look at our late head and prophet, Mr. Joe Smith him that appeared in a vision to our present prophet, and pointed out the spot for the new temple. He died a martyr, Mr. Joe Smith did a prey to wicked murderers.
There's just three husbands among the fifteen women scrubbin' here now, and the rest of us is all old maids and widders. No wonder the men-folks die, or move away, like Justin Peabody; a place with such a mess o' women-folks ain't healthy to live in, whatever Lobelia Brewster may say."
But what she wanted was drowned by a succession of certain mysterious sounds, such as are only produced by a collision of lips, and which made Aunt Betsy mutter to herself: "It's all right, I know, but so much kissin' as I've seen the last fortni't is enough to turn a body's stomach. I guess old bachelders and widders is commonly wus than fresh hands at it."
It fell open at a map of North America as if through long habit. "Sit thee down," he ordered. Tembarom had stood watching them both. "I guess you'd better not do that," he suggested to Tummas. "Why not? " said the boy, sharply. "She's th' wench he was goin' to marry. It's th' same as if he'd married her. If she wur his widder, she'd want to talk about him. Widders allus wants to talk.
"Lord bless you, yes! and a very good husband I had, poor man! But he's dead these many years; and if you had not taken me, I must have gone to the workhus." "He is dead! Wasn't it very hard to live after that, Sarah?" "The Lord strengthens the hearts of widders!" observed Sarah, sanctimoniously. "Did you marry your brother, Sarah?" said Fanny, playing with the corner of her apron.
She in'erited it from 'er father. Very kind-'earted woman ... always gives 'er box to orphans and widders and people like that!" "Then the ladies in the box now are not friends of hers?" John asked, meaning by "friends," relatives. "I shouldn't think so," the attendant answered. "I noticed the party comin' in. They come in a 'ired carriage.
You had a good business head when you run your bluff some years ago, an' you wan't only nineteen then. You walked into my place an' jest bought that land on sheer bluff." Champers laughed uproariously, but he grew sober in the next minute. "Miss Shirley," he said gravely, "I ain't got much style nor sentiment in my makin's, but I've honestly tried to be humane by widders an' orphans.
Weller, 'that the rail is unconstitootional and an inwaser o' priwileges, and I should wery much like to know what that 'ere old Carter as once stood up for our liberties and wun 'em too, I should like to know wot he vould say, if he wos alive now, to Englishmen being locked up vith widders, or with anybody again their wills.
Then again, he said, and with truth: "This whole fuss makes me sick. Here's them fellers in the crew been goin' out, season after season, takin' folks off wrecks, and the fool papers never say nothin' 'bout it; but they go out this time, and don't save nobody and git drownded themselves, and they're heroes of a sudden. I hear they're raisin' money up to Boston to give to the widders and orphans.
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