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Updated: June 29, 2025
"And do you mean to say that just for one unfortunate remark a remark that any one might have made in the agitation of the moment you're deliberately turning your back on her, and her broken heart!" "Oh, she's red-hot, too, you know, over what I said about the Van Coorts." "She couldn't have realized that you belonged to the Connecticut Joneses. I didn't know it!"
The ruined cabins, the broken-down corrals, the stone fence, the wash where water ran at wet season all had subtly changed for me. Leaning in the doorway of the one-room cabin that had been home for these Joneses I was stirred to my depths. Their spirits abided in that lonely hut. At least I felt something there something strange, great, simple, inevitable, tragic as life itself.
There were Talcott Joneses, and Talcott Robinsons, and Talcott Browns by the score in town, but one and all they acknowledged the primacy of this Edward Herbert Talcott, and never lost an opportunity of speaking of him as their cousin.
"Nothing is the matter with ME. It is Lucy's tragedy. I've seen the magnificent ancient palace of the Wolfburghs. It is a flat! In the very house where I went to-day. The third story flat just under the attics where the poor Joneses daub portraits.
She is the hidden centre and force of the whole parochial machinery the organist, the chief tract distributor, the president of the Dorcas society, the despot of the penny bank and the coal-club, the head of the sewing-class, the supervisor of district-visitors, the universal referee as to the character of mendicant Joneses and Browns.
Alas for those happy days when one could say to one's neighbour, "Jones, shall I give you some mashed turnip? May I trouble you for a little cabbage?" And then the pleasure of drinking wine with Mrs. Jones and Miss Smith with all the Joneses and all the Smiths! These latter-day habits are certainly more economical.
'If you mean that you want to know how I knew about the Joneses and their offering to take care of our furniture, David told me; and if you want to know how he knew which I can see you do, because you have screwed your eyebrows into a question-mark Mr.
The Capt'n made me walk up and down for an hour with a big rail on my sholder. "You tell Squire Joneses boy that he haint got sand enuff to jine the army, and if he don't keep away from you I'll bust his eer when I git home, if I ever do. Whattle you do if I shouldn't ever see you agin?
After Melinda came home from boarding-school the Joneses did not set the table in the kitchen close to the hissing cook stove, but in the pleasant dining room, where there gradually came to be crocheted tidies on the backs of the rocking-chairs, and crayon sketches on the wall, and a pot of geraniums in the window, with a canary bird singing in his cage near by. At first, Mrs.
"He and all Kaskaskia appear to be going to Colonel Menard's to-night." "Yes, I stood and counted the carriages: the Bonds, the Morrisons, the Vigos, the Sauciers, the Edgars, the Joneses" "Has anything happened these three days past?" inquired the doctor, breaking off this list of notable Kaskaskians. "Oh, many things have happened. But first here is your billet."
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