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Some people jump to conclusions without any thought you have noticed that?" "O yes," said the clerk, a little perplexed as to whether to feel comfortable or the reverse; "Oh yes, indeed, I've often noticed that, ma'm." "Yes, they jump to conclusions with an absurd heedlessness.
Gibbs, and that the ducking did my clothes more good than harm. These are my fishing duds, ma'm. And if you please I'd rather not take any reward for pulling the poor little kitten in out of the wet. It was only sport for me, and I was glad to be there to save him for Bessie. Besides, I know my mother would not like it if I took pay for doing so small a thing," he said.
"Ye see, ma'm," Riley continued, "Jimmie is th' man th' big fellers give th' money at 'lection time, an' it's all lift ter him where he puts it. All that responsibility is his, ma'm, an' that makes him quite a feller hisself. Th' other men in th' ward sorter looks up ter him, ma'm. An' thin agin, Jimmie is th' fine speaker an' quick wid his thinkers, ma'm.
Ma'm, I'll fetch your curtain, but I've got to have somethin' to wrap around the dead and the brave." "Don't you take that apron. Why, if he wouldn't take the best apron I've got, right out from under my very eyes. And you can't have that stand cover, either." "Well, but, by jings, what can I have? Am I a traveler that has jest stopped here to stay all night?
The old blackberry-woman answered me with tears and smiles. What a deep, rich, loving heart was covered out of sight in her squalid life! It makes me proud that I felt my heart and my love in some measure like hers; and she saw it, too. "An' it's yersilf, Ma'm, that has the mother's own heart in yez, to be sure! An' I can see it in your eyes, Ma'm! But it's the thruth it's mighty scarce intirely!
"No, ma'm," she said stiffly. "Did you have two cups of coffee at your dinner?" I inquired. "No, ma'm," indignantly. I sat up and almost upset my hot water I always take a cup of hot water with a pinch of salt, before I get up. It tones the stomach. "Liddy Allen," I said, "stop combing that switch and tell me what is wrong with you." Liddy heaved a sigh.
First you drown the gal an' her baggage, an' then you git carryin' her around, an' walkin' into her virgin bedroom without no by your leave, nor nuthin'." But Buck quite ignored her protests. He felt it was useless to explain. So he turned back and gave his final instructions from the doorway. "You jest get her right to bed, ma'm, an' dose her," he said amiably.
"I told your uncle, but he seemed already to know." She gave a tender account of the scene in the yard, of Tom and Lou, and he said that like his uncle he had already known. "Fate got out of the wagon when you drove up to the gate, ma'm honey," he said; "and I am thankful to the Lord that in no wise was it cruel onesidedness. I couldn't tell that Tom loved Lou, but I knew she loved him."
Getting drenched that way when we were so hot was bad enough, but the wind that accompanied the shower was decidedly cool and we were pretty uncomfortable by the time we were picked up. "To whom are we indebted for this hospitality?" asked Nyoda of Agnes. "Ma'm?" said Agnes. "In whose house are we?" asked Nyoda. "This is the home of Simon McClure," answered Agnes. "Oh-oh!" we said altogether.
'Well, ma'm, I found Krajiek's axe under the manger, and I picks it up and carries it over to the corpse, and I take my oath it just fit the gash in the front of the old man's face. That there Krajiek had been sneakin' round, pale and quiet, and when he seen me examinin' the axe, he begun whimperin', "My God, man, don't do that!"
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