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Causelesse distrust is able to driue deceite into a simple womans head. I durst pawne the credit of a page, which is worth ams ase at all times, that she was immaculate honest till she met with vs in prison. Marie what temptations shee had then when fire and flaxe were put together, conceit with your selues, but hold my master excusable.
She was too scart to sleep and frightened to stay awake. She kept two lamps burning all night. As for Asaph, he waited till 'twas still, and then he crept downstairs to the closet, got an armful of Banners of Light and Mysterious Magazines, and went back to his room to study up. Next morning there was nothing said about wood chopping Ase was busy making preparations to draw Debby's horoscope.
In this way they travelled at their ase, till they came within a few miles of the town of Knockimdowny, near which Jack's mother lived. "'Now, Jack, says she, 'I told you that I would make you rich.
If I should lose my temper and rare up I might say somethin' that would hurt her feelin's. I'll set on the fence and wait for you and Ase, Whit." Mr. Tidditt's scornful comments concerning "white feathers" and "backsliders" had no effect. Mr. Bangs perched himself on the fence. "Give it to her, fellers!" he called after them. "Talk Dutch to her!
"On that t'other chap, I mean? Didn't he look like a reg'lar no-account to you? And say, Ase, didn't he remind you of somebody you'd seen somewheres kind of, in a way?" They walked home in a dazed state, asking unanswerable questions and making profitless guesses. But Asaph's final remark seemed to sum up the situation. "There's trouble comin' of this, Bailey," he declared.
And we poor fools of selectmen was congratulating ourselves that Ase Blueworthy was doing something toward earning his keep at last. And then 'long in July 'twas Betsy Mullen died. One evening, just after the Fourth, Deborah and Asaph was in the dining room, figgering out fortunes with a pack of cards, when there comes a knock at the door.
'Suffering from lumbago and rheumatiz' um, yes. 'Out of work' um, just so. 'Respectfully begs that the board will' etcetery and so forth. Well, gentlemen, what's your pleasure?" Darius Gott, he speaks first, and dry and drawling as ever. "Out of work, hey?" says Darius. "Mr. Chairman, I should like to ask if anybody here remembers the time when Ase was IN work?"
Have you done any thinkin' about that?" And the captain, taking his pipe from his lips, stared blankly at his friend, and answered: "By the big dipper, Ase, I ain't! I remember we did mention it, but I've been so busy gettin' this craft off the ways that I forgot all about it." The discussion which followed Mr. Tidditt's reminder was long and serious.
But in an hour or so it come over her all of a sudden that 'twas awful quiet out by the woodpile. She hurried to the back door, and there was Ase, setting on the ground in the shade, his eyes shut and his back against the chopping block, and one poor lonesome slab in front of him with a couple of splinters knocked off it. That was his afternoon's work. Maybe you think the widow wa'n't mad.
She jumped out of her chair and whirled around like a kitten in a fit. "Good land!" she hollers. "Where? What? Who was it?" "I don't know who 'twas. His face was covered up; but it kind of come to me a communication, as you might say that some day that man was going to marry you." "Land of love! Marry ME? You're crazy! I'm scart to death." Ase shook his head, more mysterious than ever.
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