"We'll be a spectacle for the
whole village."
"What if we be? Let's be a spectacle, then!" said Samantha stoutly.
"We'll be a spectacle for the angels as well as the village, when you
come to that! When they look down 'n' see us gittin' outside this
dooryard 'n' doin' one o' the Lord's chores for the first time in ten or
fifteen years, I guess they'll be consid'able excited! But there's no
use in talkin', I've made up my mind, Vildy. We've lived together for
thirty years 'n' ain't hardly hed an ugly word ('n' dretful dull it hez
ben for both of us!), 'n' I sha'n't live nowheres else without you tell
me to go; but I've got lots o' good work in me yit, 'n' I'm goin' to
take that boy up 'n' give him a chance, 'n' let him stay alongside o'
the thing he loves best in the world. And if there ain't room for all of
us in the fourteen rooms o' this part o' the house, Timothy 'n' I can
live in the L, as you've allers intended I should if I got married. And
I guess this is 'bout as near to gittin' married as either of us ever
'll git now, 'n' consid'able nearer 'n I've expected to git, lately. And
I'll tell Timothy this very night, when he goes to bed, for he's
grievin' himself into a fit o' sickness, as anybody can tell that's got
a glass eye in their heads!"
SCENE XIV.
_A Point of Honor._
TIMOTHY JESSUP RUNS AWAY A SECOND TIME, AND, LIKE OTHER BLESSINGS,
BRIGHTENS AS HE TAKES HIS FLIGHT.
It was almost dusk, and Jabe Slocum was struggling with the nightly
problem of getting the cow from the pasture without any expenditure of
personal effort.
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