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country. He hasn't had any too much time—and besides he mightn't a got the letter at all, you know."
" Too bad, too bad he couldn't a lived to see his brothers, poor soul. You going to Orleans, you say ?"
" Yes, but that ain't only a part of it. I'm going in a ship, next Wednesday, for Ryo Janeero, where my uncle lives."
" It's a pretty long journey. But it'll be lovely ; I wisht I was agoing. Is Mary Jane the oldest ? How old is the others ? " |
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" Mary Jane's nineteen, Susan's fifteen, and Joanna's about fourteen—that's the one that gives herself to good works and has a hare-lip."
" Poor things ! to be left alone in the cold world so."
" Well, they could be worse off. Old Peter had friends, and they ain't going to let them come to no harm. There's Hobson, the Babtis' preacher ; and Deacon Lot Hovey, and Ben Rucker, and Abner Shackleford, and Levi Bell, the lawyer ; and Dr. Robinson, and their wives, and the widow Bartley, and— well, there's a lot of them ; but these are the ones that Peter was thickest with, |
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