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Isabelle wouldn't correspond with him, so she told him in that last hour still and calm on the outside, and her heart a-bleedin' on the inside, I dare presoom to say; no, she wanted him to feel free. What creeters, what creeters wimmen be for makin' martyrs of themselves, and burnt sacrifices sometimes I most think they enjoy it, and then agin I don't know!
If you know of any old maid, now, with one room that's what would suit me to a tee; an easy-going sort o' woman, who " "I know of two elderly ladies," interrupted the green-grocer, thoughtfully; "they're sisters, and have got a small room to let; but but they're delicate sort o' creeters, you know; have seen better days, an' are raither timid, an' might want a female lodger, or a man who who "
Beebe!" cried Davie; "see, Polly." Polly scrambled up to her feet, ashamed to be caught thus, and whisked away the tears; the others explaining to their new visitor the sad disappointment that had befallen them; and she was soon oh-ing, and ah-ing enough to suit even their distressed little souls. "You poor creeters, you!" she exclaimed at last, for about the fiftieth time.
But, if you'll believe it, for all the pains I took to be almost over- polite to her, and not say a word to hurt her feelin's, that woman acted mad, and flounced out of the room as if she was sent. Good land! what strange creeters there are in the world, anyway! Wall, I had fairly forgot that the boy wus in the room.
Although she's not well cared for, owing to her mother, who's a washerwoman, bein' overburdened with work and a drunken husband, she's one of the dearest creeters I ever did see. Bless you, sir, you'd be amazed if you knew all the kind and thoughtful things that untrained and uncared for child does, and never thinks she's doing anything more than other people.
But poor children that we are, we still keep on a-fishin' with our bent pin-hooks; we still drop our weak lines down into the depths, a-fishin' for happiness, for rest, for ambition, for Heaven knows what all and now, as in the past, our hooks break or our lines float away on the eddies, and we don't catch what we are after. Poor children! poor creeters! But I am eppisodin', and to resoom.
'I'll step out by and by, Mary. Keep your spirits up, dear. Here he went through the not very difficult process of winking upon the company with his solitary eye, to the enthusiastic delight of an elderly personage with a dirty face and a clay pipe. 'Rum creeters is women, said the dirty-faced man, after a pause. 'Ah! no mistake about that, said a very red-faced man, behind a cigar.
But them p'lices are curious creeters. Now if I already had as many thieves on my hands as I could well look after, it never would have entered my head to go on a wild-goose chase after others. There's no accountin' for them p'lices' minds, anyway. And as for their bodies well, did you ever see one that was not that fat that any thief at all couldn't outrun?" Mr. Morton laughed.
Wilkins, as she tenderly adjusted the sleepy head of the young worm in her lap. "After that scrape I done my best; Lisha was as meek as a whole flock of sheep, and we give Mis Bascum a wide berth. Things went lovely for ever so long, and though, after a spell, we had our ups and downs, as is but natural to human creeters, we never come to such a pass agin.
Well, it wuz enough to melt the heart of a stun, a granit stun, and as I sot there and read, the tears jest run down my face in a stream; why, they fell so that they wet the front of my gingham dress wet as sop, and ontirely onbeknown to me. But I kep a-thinkin' to myself, "Oh, that poor little creeter! Oh, them poor, poor creeters that loved her! Oh, that poor mother!"
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