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Updated: June 14, 2025
Clifford: "they are rather too old for Prudy, I should judge." "But I keep a-growing, Aunt 'Ria! Don't you s'pose I know what fairy stories mean? They don't mean any thing! You didn't feel afraid I'd believe 'em, did you? I wouldn't believe 'em, I promise I wouldn't; just as true's I'm walking on this floor!" "Indeed, I hope you would not, little Prudy; for I made them up as I went along.
She sat down, hitching her chair a bit nearer him, leaned her elbow on her knee, and buried a dimpled chin in the palm of her hand. "Do you suppose, Lafe, if a girl believed in the angels, anybody could hurt her?" "I know they couldn't, kid, an' it's as true's Heaven." "Well, then, why can't I go out and work?" Lafe paused and looked over his spectacles.
When Willie came home the next Sunday, he rushed into True's room, eager to hear how Gerty liked going to school. She was seated at the table, with her spelling-book; and she exclaimed, "Oh, Willie! Willie! come and hear me read!" Her performance could hardly be called reading.
He handed Willie the slip of paper; and the boy, taking True's lantern in his hand, and holding the note up to the light, read aloud: "R. H. Clinton would like to see William Sullivan on Thursday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, at No. 13 Wharf." Willie looked up in amazement. "What does it mean?"? said he; "I don't know any such person."
Once or twice her voice faltered, but with new effort she succeeded, in spite of the great bunches in her throat; and her voice sounded so clear and calm, that Uncle True's devotional spirit was not once disturbed by the thought of the girl's sufferings; for, fortunately, he could not hear how her heart beat and throbbed, and threatened to burst.
Elbridge True's drove into the yard. I guess he's got it in mind to talk it over about them cows. I don't want to lose the chance." "All right," answered Amelia. She took her seat again, while Enoch's footsteps went briskly out through the shed. With the clanging of the door, she felt secure.
Gertrude answered all these questions: and the doctor, who had heard Mrs. Sullivan spoken of as a friend of True's and Gerty's, made many inquiries as to her health.
But, Lord! what were suspicions or even certainty to what Barnaby True's two eyes beheld when that man lifted the lids of the two cases the locks thereof having already been forced and, flinging back first one lid and then the other, displayed to Barnaby's astonished sight a great treasure of gold and silver!
The tale of Dickie's rescue from the cave was the talk of the countryside. True was praised much, but Edred more. Why had no one else thought of putting the dog on the scent? Edred said that it was mostly True's doing. And the people praised his modesty. And nobody, except perhaps Elfrida, ever understood what it had cost Edred to go that night through the dark and rescue his cousin.
"There she sat, day after day, last week, on her little stool, by Uncle True's easy-chair, with her head on the cushion, and I couldn't get her to move or eat a thing.
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