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"Not underneath those fort guns, I beg leave to say," quoth Yeo. "If the Philistines will but come out unto us, we will make them like unto Zeba and Zalmunna." "Quite true," said Amyas. "Game cocks are game cocks, but reason's reason." "If the Philistines are not coming out, they are going to send a messenger instead," quoth Cary. "Look out, all thin skulls!"
You're just the one to manage that; and get Mandy Marsh and Zeba Osterhaus to help you: they'll be glad to, I know. And you, Mrs. Updyke, and Mrs. Shooter, were you going to look after the cooking, and so on? There'll likely be a crowd over for the sermon."
I've pieced it 'star- pattern', ye see, an' do ye know? there's one thousand an' ninety pieces in thet thar very quilt!" There was a universal cry of admiration and astonishment at this triumphant announcement. "How long did it take you?" asked Zeba, examining the pattern and workmanship with renewed interest. "Wall, I've been at it now this goin' on two year; kep' it fur ketch-up work, ye know."
"The family below is very nice," said madame; "their name it is Hoffstott, and he is a little German baker of much baldness on his head, but greatly smiling and pleasant; the wife is about the same in her width as she is in her height, and laughs with a big mouth, and white teeth fine to see; and they have two little girls with yellow braids, like that candy of molasses Miss Zeba did have in her windows and all so clean!
"Ah, Robare!" said the lady with an odd little accent, "I have now a thought; it may be this boy could to us tell of some public-house near by, to which we could go for this night." All turned to Morton, who said hesitantly, "Yes, there is one, or at least there's Miss Zeba Osterhaus; she keeps store in her front window, and has rooms up-stairs that she doesn't use.
Then that must be why Zeba Osterhaus and Betty Pulcher were crossing the street in front of your house; I guess they couldn't get in." "Crossin' the street where? Jest below?" beginning to wind up her yarn hurriedly. "Hed they railly been to my haouse?" "Well, I'm not sure, but I think so; I didn't ask 'em where they'd been." "And be they to thet little stuck-up Mis' Gurney's naow?"
"Yes, as my aunt says, you will not find us hard to suit; we can put up with a few inconveniences, if necessary. Might we look at your rooms?" These were found to be so neat and cheerful in spite of low roofs and small windows that a bargain was quickly consummated; and having planned with Miss Zeba for a dinner in half an hour, the young man turned to his little guide.
He had sailed away that morning, bidding her a kind farewell, but reserving his last look and handclasp for Bertha; and as the two girls walked back together from the beach, stopping to call on Zeba Osterhaus and Mrs. Updyke by the way, she could but notice how quiet her friend seemed, and mentioned it later to Miss Prue, with the bold comment,
You paint flowers, and she, just hear the alarming word, she 'hooks' them! Cats, too, and dogs, did you say? Does the verb have a dishonest meaning here in Killamet, my boy?" Morton stared back wonderingly, not understanding much except that in some way either he or Miss Zeba, or perhaps Killamet in general, was being held up to ridicule, and that it was his business to resent it.
Glendenning was as brave as the best of our fishermen, and dared face any storm, but how kind he was, and gentle! How respectful to poor Zeba, how thoughtful for his aunt and uncle, and what a gentleman in every way! Morton, I want you to be a gentleman too."
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