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I shall have to get Jane to help you

"They would?" and she raised her blue eyes indignantly to his. "No matter, you are the one to say about that." "I say they do too much.  I shall have to get Jane to help you." "By all means!  Then you’ll have more society." "That was a home shot.  You know how I dote on […]

and she did not see his heavy

"Oh-h, what a speech!  Hasn’t that a pretty golden hue?" she asked, holding up a mass of the butter she was ladling from the churn into a wooden tray. "Yes, you are making the gilt-edge article now.  I don’t have to sell it to Tom Watterly any more." "I’d like to give him some, though." […]

had passed between them in this cool

All the associations of the place were pleasant to Alida.  It was here that her husband had shown patience as well as kindness in teaching her how to supplement his work until her own experience and judgment gave her a better skill than he possessed.  Many pleasant, laughing words had passed between them in this […]

I wouldn’t enjoy having anyone here

He shivered visibly. "No, Alida, and you wouldn’t either.  She’d make you more nervous than she would me, and that’s saying a good deal.  I do feel very sorry for her, and if Mrs. Weeks comes to see you, we’ll find out if something can’t be done, but her presence would spoil all our cozy […]

with that flushed face of yours

"He said he was ‘afeared I’d been taken in, you were such a sickly lookin’ critter.’  Ha! Ha!  Wish he might see you now, with that flushed face of yours.  I never believed in magic, but I’ll have to come to it.  You are bewitched, and are being transformed into a pretty young girl right […]