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Madam's eyebrows were lifted then. "Why, Alfaretta!" "Yes, Madam. I'm sorry the suppawn scorched. I I was terr'ble sleepy an' I stopped stirrin' a little minute an' first I knew " "I asked for Montgomery. Did you tell him that supper was served?" "No, Madam." "Please do so."
She had just finished this arrangement when a noise in the room below warned her of Mrs Greenways' approach, and running downstairs she found her seated breathless in the high-backed chair. One foot was stretched out appealingly in front of her, and she was so fatigued that at first she could only nod speechlessly at Lilac. "I'm fairly spent," she said at last, "with that terr'ble hill.
The Bishop spoke first. "I think she'll get him," he said musingly. "She's got a sort of cave-woman look, and she has no petticoats to impede her." "Ess fay," assented Granfa, "her'll get him, and hold him fast too, I'll be bound. A terr'ble powerful worm."
At any rate it must be something impossible to get at Number 6 Buzley's Court, Whitechapel, where she had lived all the thirteen years of her life. Perhaps she might find it pleasant to be "lonesome," she thought, and yet her mother always added the word "terr'ble" to it, as if it were a thing generally to be disliked.
I s'pose I wouldn't 'a' minded it in a ornary way an' ashore, or ef we'd had some other folks around. But here we was jest alone oh, it was terr'ble how much we was alone! an' Jack more'n half the time like a damn starin' owl, till he a-most druv me wild." "An' Jack said as how I was onbearable too.
And Reuben says, "Well, I would be, only I'm so dreadful scaret o' dyin'. It must be terr'ble cur'us," he says, "to be dead." And the Angel says, "Why, you be dead." And he was. The story of the boy that was scaret o' dyin' was the last story that little Lib ever told us. We saw her sometimes after that, but she was not strong enough to talk much.
You needn't go 'neighborin'' me, if that's all you're worth. Tryin' fool capers like a boy, ain't you? Think it was terr'ble clever to cut strings that I'd took the trouble to tie and then settin' them youngsters free.
'Tany rate, he was terr'ble scaret o' dyin'. 'Twas a long time ago this was, the times when posies and creaturs could talk so's folks could know what they was sayin'.
And good childer they was, and would never have turned me out as their sons have had the stinkin' impidence to do. But now, souls, tell me all about yourselves, for I be a terr'ble perusin' man and I like to ponder on the doings of my fellow-creatures. Did you mention the name of a parson, over by yon honeysuckle hedge?"
"Can't we make out to walk, pappy?" he asked, dropping unconsciously into the child-time phrase. "Oh, yes; I reckon we could. You're not too young, and I'm not so terr'ble old. But get in, Buddy, get in; there'll be trampin' enough for ye, all summer long." The limestone pike was the same, and the creek was still rushing noisily over the stones in its bed, as Tom remarked gratefully.
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