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"She is greatly changed," continued Dr. Lacey. "Don’t you give her credit for that?" "Changed?" replied Mr. Middleton. "So’s lightnin’ changed! It’s one of her tricks. Depend on it, you’ll find it so." And Mr. Middleton walked off in search of his promising daughter. Strange as it may seem, the old man’s remarks had no other effect on Dr.
"She sure is right purty, Mister Kirby. Mister Kells said as to tell you he’s sleepin’ on a cot in th’ tack room over there, should you be needin’ him." Callie pointed. "Me, I’m beddin’ down in the last stall. I put your gear up right over here, so’s you can hear if she gits to movin’—" "Thanks." Drew felt in a pocket, tossed Callie the coin his fingers found.
"I want you to live with me," Aunt Mary continued, "an’ I want the house big enough so’s Clover an’ Mitchell an’ Burnett can come whenever they feel like it and stay as long as they like. I don’t want any house except for us all together. Oh, my! Seems like I can’t hardly wait!" She leaned back and shut her eyes in a sort of impatient ecstasy of joys been and to be.
Maida knew that she was imitating her mother. Laura had scarcely left when Dicky appeared, swinging between his crutches. “Maida,” he said, “I want you to come over to-morrow afternoon and see my place. You’ve not seen Delia yet and there’s a whole lot of things I want to show you. I’m going to clean house to-day so’s I’ll be all ready for you to-morrow.” “Oh, thank you,” Maida said.
Howsomever, he hain’t yet skeered me ’nough to make my ha’r come out by the roots,” said Pete with a yawn. “There, kick that back log over so’s the fire can lick at t’other side; now let’s turn in.”
Murdock, for often, when he looked at that lady, his eyes “skrinkled up,” although there was not a smile on his face. “A week is all I need,” Mrs. Murdock declared. “If it worn’t for other folks who are keeping me waiting, I’d have that hull place fixed as clean as a whistle in two shakes of a lamb’s tail. Now I’ll put a price on everything, so’s you won’t be bothered what to charge.
Then the invalid sat up a little and showed some mercy on her servant’s very evident fright. "I want the calf shod," she explained, "so’s Joshua can run up an’ down the porch with him." So far from ameliorating Lucinda’s condition, this explanation rendered it visibly worse.
I ain’t strong enough to be able to bear livin’ in the country much longer. I’ve pretty much made up my mind to buy a house in town and just keep this place so’s to have somewhere to put Lucinda." "Do you think you’d be happy in town, Aunt Mary?" Jack yelled; "I mean if you lived there right along?" "I don’t see how I could be anythin’ else. I don’t see how anyone could be anythin’ else.
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