I see a change come over his mean; he wavered and turned onto his heel, and went out-doors.
And I may as well tell the end on’t. It wuz that dressin’-gown that gradual won him back into decenter clothin’.
I lured him into that at first, and then gradual into pepper-and-salt, and so on to broadcloth; but it wuz a hard tussle! Collars and cuffs wuz my worst battle-field, but I got the victory over ’em at last.
Oh, dear me, dear me, suz! what hard times female pardners do have anon or oftener; but yet I believe that pardners pay, after all.
And it did seem so good to walk round the house, free and ontrammelled, and see the old bureaus and tables once more, and sasspans and things; and go out into the garden and see the garden-truck, and walk out to the barn and gather the eggs, and count the chickens.
And plunge into all the sweet delights that make home a perfect Eden.
Yes, we both felt that we should never want to move a inch from our own fireside. But how little—how little we can tell what is ahead on us in the onseen futer.
In this case Alice wuz ahead.
We hadn’t been to home more’n several weeks when that sweet creeter wrote to me, urgin’ me hard to come and see her.
She didn’t make no open complaints, but all through the letter I could read between the lines, as it wuz, the echoes of a sad heart.