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Up here wedont look at things just as you people do.
Jis th mere house,says he,
an he gits it. Uncle Mose took a chair and laid his hat carefully on the floor
besideit.
The blonde matron raised up and swept her skirts back perfectly
flat.
It makes a perfectly fascinating suite, observed Mrs.
Now where can we
make ourselves comfortable with this furniture?
I am truly sorry you took
offense, he said regretfully. You arebetter fitted than I to manage its
expenditure. It devolved upon him toeven up the affair a little before his
mother came back. She also sat down, but she was thefirst to find her voice. Me
and my old oman done raised up sebm chillun, and alldoin well cept two of em
what died. They haint but th little room over thkitchen left.
Ive been getting
a fairsalary all the season, and Ive saved some money. They will be compelledto
compromise, and they must not find me with red eyes.
Ellsworth told her husband
as they passed inhearing of the Van Kamps. I never saw such gorgeous tints in
all my life.
I take what Iwant, and what I can, and return it over the
footlights.
A bargains a bargain, an I allus stick toone I make.
It would be
spite, notretaliation, and not at all sportsmanlike. Ill have to put you an
your wife in that, an let yourboy sleep with th driver.
His big, coarse shoes
shonewith a metallic luster suggestive of stove polish. You arebetter fitted
than I to manage its expenditure.
What are the Van Kamps paying you for those
three rooms? Then you can make him take down the sign!
Nothing was said about
the furniture, was there?
Kindly excuseyourself and come right on up to our
suite for a few moments! Van Kamp joined the women on the porch, and explained
theattractively novel situation to them.
Oh, I say, Major Talbot, he exclaimed
frankly, dontyou be offended. Id like three choice rooms, en suite, he said.
Hargraves, said the Major, who had remained standing, you haveput upon me an
unpardonable insult.
It devolved upon him toeven up the affair a little before
his mother came back.
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