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Updated: June 5, 2025
"You done your best and it can't be helped, I only wish't I'd let you wear your black hat as you wanted to; and I wish't we'd never come such a day! The shawl has broke the stems of the velvet geraniums in my bonnet, and the wind has blowed away my shawl pin and my back comb. I'd like to give up and turn right back this minute, but I don't like to borrer Perkins's hoss again this month.
We're all out," she said, as she began buttoning a stiff collar around his reluctant neck. "Remember? Land, yes! I wish't I ever could forgit anything! The butcher says he's 'bout tired o' travelin' over the country lookin' for critters to kill, but if he finds anything he'll be up along in the course of a week. He ain't a real smart butcher, Cyse Higgins ain't.
"Dear Barby," said Fleda, with softening eyes, "won't you be something good yourself?" Barby put up her hand to shield her face. Fleda was silent, for she saw that strong feeling was at work. "I wish't I could," Barby broke forth at last, "if it was only for your sake." "Dear Barby," said Fleda, "you can do this for me you can go to church, and hear what Mr. Olmney says.
"Them nasty, dirty critters!" she exclaimed. "I wish't the boys had killed them all. Even in daylight they don't stand up and fight fair like men. I lost a whole churnin' yesterday. Besides, they killed my best cow this mornin', that's what they done. And lookit this thing!" She held up an Indian arrow, its strap-iron head bent over at right angles. "They shot this into our plow beam.
I just wish't you could. Such dogs and cats as she weaves into 'em would have druv' Noah plumb crazy if he had to take 'em into the Ark. Their eyes are just round rings of white, with another round ring of black in the middle " "Aren't rings always round, auntie, dear?" "No, they ain't.
"Never mind, dear," said Annie again, and pushed Mary down into the rocking chair as she would have busied herself with the kindling. "Let me, now. I wish't coal wasn't so high. There's times I almost lose my nerve." A blue and yellow flame at last began back of the mica-doored stove which furnished heat for the room.
I wish't he'd use one kind o' figgurin' a leetle more; he'd pay me for that wood-sawin'. I didn't mean nothin' about hosses. I sot out fur to say, Why don't ye marry Miss Lucindy?" "I?" gasped Monsieur, "I, the foreign, the poor? I could not to presume so!" "Well, I don't see 's it's sech drefful presumption.
"How far is it to your our the place where we're going?" she asked after a time. "About twenty-three mile, ma'am," he answered cheerfully. "Road's pretty fair now. I wish't you could see how pretty the hills is they're gitting green now some." "And the sky is blue?" Her eyes turned up, sensible of no more than a feeling that light was somewhere.
And if it's bad I might just as well know it now, 'cause I'll have to know it sometime. Dad, what did they say? Don't worry. I can stand it honest, I can. I've GOT to stand it. Besides, I've been expecting it ever so long. 'Keith, you're going to be blind. I wish't you'd say it right out like that if you've got to say it." But the man shuddered and gave a low cry. "No, no, Keith, never!
You can do things in surgery out here that you wouldn't dare tackle back in France, or in the States. I suppose, maybe, I could cut your head off, for instance." "I wish't you would," said Sim Gage. "She bothers me sometimes." After a pause he continued, "I been thinking over a heap of things. You see, I'm busted about flat.
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