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That's what you call a good bargain!" Her voice frightened her. It amazed the man who heard. These two middle-aged people were waking up to passions neither had felt in youth. Life was strong in them because love was there. "Why, 'Melia!" said the man. "Why, 'Melia!" Amelia was hurried on before the wind of her destiny. Her voice grew sharper.
The tears came into her eyes. "Thirty-four," she answered. "How old?" After she had repeated it, 'Melia turned suddenly, and made a solemn statement. "I picked off my gloxinias and gave 'em all to Willard." She lisped on the name, and made it a funny flower. Hetty was trembling. "Yes, dear, yes," she responded prayerfully. "They were real handsome blooms. I was obleeged to ye."
"I don't know how in the world I could h'ist you up there," she remarked, from an evident background of hospitable good-will. "H'ist me up? I guess you couldn't! You'd need a tackle an' falls. Amos has had to come to draggin' me round by degrees, an' I don't go off the lower floor. Be them chambers jest the same, 'Melia?" "Oh, yes, they're just the same. Everything is.
'T ain't worth fixin'." "Worth it!" repeated Enoch. "Well, I guess I'll give it a chance." He drew a chair to the stove, and there hesitated. "Say, 'Melia," said he, "should you jest as soon I'd bring in that old shoemaker's bench out o' the shed? It's low, an' I could reach my tools off'n the floor."
'Melia, tell him we don't want any suspenders or collar-buttons; we don't wear them." "Showy!" called Jane. "My sakes! it was the plainest thing, I ever saw at their house. If you could see some of their doings!" Eliza Marshall set back the candelabrum and transferred her attention to a Rock of Ages in Parian marble. "I believe things get dirtier here every year.
One word he rejected, and then another. His cheeks wrinkled up into obstinate smiling, and he made the grimace of a child over its bitter draught. "'Melia, it ain't fair," he complained. "No, it ain't. I'll take one of 'em, if you say so, or I'll own it don't make a mite o' difference whose they be. But as to lyin'" "Say it!" commanded Amelia. "Whose were they?" "Mine!" said Enoch.
"Aun' Patsy," said Uncle Isham, after gazing silently in the fire for a minute or two, "dar was a brudder wot come up from 'Melia County to de las' big preachin', an' he tole in his sarment a par'ble wot I b'lieve will 'ply fus rate to dis 'casion. I's gwine to tell you dat." "Go 'long wid it," said Aunt Patsy.
"When they'm young they make your arms ache, an' when they grow up they make your heart ache." "But 'Melia Penaluna's been here more times than any of us," said the blonde with a titter, directing her eyes towards a corner of the room. The rest looked too, and laughed.
'We ain't settled yet whose he's to be, Esther, said one of the men. 'It won't be you, Esther, with seven of 'em at your tail a'ready. 'I ain't so sure of that, said Esther's husband. 'And ain't I nobody, to have a say neither? said the husband of 'Melia. Zillah, the girl, said, 'An' me? I'm a single girl and no one but 'im to look after I ought to have him. 'Hold yer tongue!
'Lamb kyes, said he he had stopped roaring to listen. The woman laughed. 'As if I hadn't never bath'd a babby! she said. 'Come give us a hold of him. Come to 'Melia, my precious. 'G'way, ugsie! replied the Lamb at once.
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