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David Harum
A Story of American Life
by
Edward Noyes Westcott
D. Appleton & Company; New York, London, 1900
David poured half of his second cup of tea into his tea saucer to lower its temperature to the drinking-point, and helped himself to a second cut of ham and a third egg. Whatever was on his mind to have kep him unusually silent during the evening meal, and to cause certain wrinkles in his forehead suggestive of perplexity or misgiving, had not impaired his appetite. David was what he called “a good feeder.”
Mrs. Bixbee, known to most of those who enjoyed the privilege of her acquaintance as “Aunt Polly,” though nieces and nephews of her blood there were none in Homeville, Freeland County, looked curiously at her brother, as, in fact, she had done at intervals during the repast; and concluding at last that further forbearance was uncalled for, relieved the pressure of her curiosity thus:
“Guess ye got somethin' on your mind, hain't ye? You hain't hardly said aye, yes, ner no sence . . .
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