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The fire smouldered audibly; a hickory-nut fell with a sharp thwack on the clapboards of the roof, and rolled down and bounded to the ground. Suddenly: "I seen yer dad ter-day," he began, without coercion. "He gin me a cussin', in the courtroom, 'fore all the folks.
Helena halted and looked at him in astonishment. The Flopper licked his lips. "Say, Helena," he said earnestly, "if I was youse I wouldn't go say, I'll tell him youse have got de pip an' gone ter bed." "Not go?" echoed Helena. "What do you mean?" The Flopper scratched at his chin uneasily. "Oh, you know!" he said. "De Doc let youse down easy ter-day.
Her chief absorption was a deep thankfulness that the floors all preserved their freshly scoured appearance. "Fur ef Rufe hed been playin' round hyar ter-day, same ez common, the rubbish would have been a scandal ter the kentry," she reflected. In fact, all was so neat, albeit so poor, that the stranger felt as polite as he looked, while he talked to her about employing Birt in his researches.
"Our troop rode over from Princeton ter-day, an' the houses at Brunswick bein' full of soldiers, I tells 'em that we could find quarters here. We was gropin' our way when the enemy set upon us, an' in the surprise cuts down the captain, an' captures three of our men." "Dost mean to say ye let one man kill your captain and take three of ye prisoners?" scoffed the squire.
"'Tain't no use ter fret, Nancy," said Sue, "she ain't good fer much till after dinner, but I guess shell talk with ye then fast 'nough." "But I'm wild to get back to the cottage," wailed Nancy. "Ye couldn't git there ter-day, fer this is Sunday, and we don't hev but two trains that stop here Sundays.
"Waal," drawled the tanner, with a certain constraint, "I hed been promisin' Birt a day off fur a right smart while, an' I tole him ez he mought ez well hev the rest o' ter-day. He 'lowed ez he warn't partic'lar 'bout a day off, now. But I tole him ennyhow ter go along. I seen him a while ago passin' through the woods, with his rifle on his shoulder gone huntin', I reckon."
He had a letter of interducshun from his minister to home to the capt'in of the Columbine perleece they was related somehow and he would jest have them men arrested; an' then he happened ter think that 'twas gittin' late and time a'most for that train with them Sunday-school children to come, and it put him out awfully; but he said that he'd make it his bizness to see to that, and then he made a 'p'intment with Camp to meet him at half-past ten ter-day, an' they'd go tergether ter see the Columbine perleeceman. She paused, and uttered a cackling laugh.
There must be somethin' goin' on ter-day," he added, as he followed the long line of people down the narrow passage between the cars. There was no reply. Abigail's cheeks were pink and her bonnet-strings untied. Her eyes, wide opened and frightened, were fixed on the swaying, bobbing crowds ahead. In the great waiting-room she caught her husband's arm.
"That's jest what I asked Jim ter-day, Mary," cut in Nathan excitedly. "Nathan, you didn't, now! Oh, I'm so glad! An' we'll do 'em, won't we? jest ter please her?" "'Course we will!" "Ye see it's four years since she was here, Nathan, what with her teachin' summers." "Sugar, now! Is it? It hain't seemed so long." "Nathan," interposed Mrs.
Leonard gently. "Is she very ill?" "Her's dying," said Maggie with a broad grin. "And her's awful skeered of hell. Her just knew ter-day her was dying. Maggie told her her wouldn't believe the harbour women, but her believed Maggie. Her yelled awful." Maggie chuckled to herself over the gruesome remembrance. Mr.
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