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"The hands an' arms on her! Dear me! Why, I do believe if our Sal was to give her one squeeze she'd kill her. Oh, but the finery and clothes! Y' never see the like! Just look at her!" And Dad, the great oaf, with Joe at his heels, followed her into the young lady's bedroom. There's that and that and this and " "I say, what's this, Mother?" interrupted Joe, holding up something he had discovered.
Sal did not answer, but producing them from her pocket, laid them in his hands. Brian bent forward, as Calton opened the envelope in silence, but both gave vent to an exclamation of horror at seeing the certificate of marriage which they knew Rosanna Moore had given to Whyte. Their worst suspicions were confirmed, and Brian turned away his head, afraid to meet the barrister's eye.
"He kicked up a row when he first turned up, but when he found she was ill, he sent a doctor; but it warn't no good. She was two weeks with us, and then died the mornin' she saw Mr. Fitzgerald." "I suppose Mr. Whyte was in the habit of talking to this woman?" "Lots," returned Sal; "but he always turned Gran' an' me out of the room afore he started."
Don't try to do anything more, but go to your room and take some sal volatile, and lie down until dinner." But at that Nan rose to her feet with a laugh of derision. "I! I act the fine lady, and go to bed for a fall? Not likely. I shall have to work harder than ever to make up for this.
She got up quickly, and after a glance into the vacant bedroom turned the key; then she hastened upstairs for sal volatile and eau de cologne.... It was yet clear daylight when Lawford appeared beneath the portico of his house.
Of course Concha treated him with as little consideration as so humble a swain deserved; but in her heart she liked him better than either Castro or Sal, for he talked to her of something besides rodeos and balls, racing and cock-fights; he had taught her English and lent her many books. Moreover, he neither sighed nor languished, nor ever had sung at her grating.
"Sal volatile!" smiled Winter. "I, too, went in for soap, but my imagination would not soar beyond a packet of cotton-wool. It was the lumpiest thing I could think of." "And perfectly useless!" sneered Furneaux. "I must say you do fling the taxpayers' money about. Now, my little lot will keep the electric bells in my flat in order for two years."
His mother has just died over to North Riverboro, all alone, excepting for Mrs. Lizy Ann Dennett, and there was another little weeny baby that died with her, and Emma Jane and I put flowers around them and did the best we could. The father that's John Winslow quarreled with the mother that was Sal Perry on the Moderation Road and ran away and left her.
Sal Karone was also assigned duties as their personal attendant, which Cameron grasped intuitively was a gesture of supreme honor among the Markovians. He thanked Marthasa profusely for this courtesy. After getting unpacked they were shown through the house and grounds and met Marthasa's family.
2d Bridegroom. "Why, I think there won't be a wedding to-day." 1st Bridegroom. "No, nor to-morrow neither. Sal, put on your bonnet and let's you and I go home. I came to Meadows' wedding; mustn't stay to anybody's else's." These remarks were delivered openly, pro bono, and dissolved the wedding party. Four principal parties remained Meadows, old Merton, and the two friends.
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