The Grinder Papers — page 178: what you’re looking at

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THE GRINDER PAPERS. 173 ** Hurry out, and stand on the payment, and we'll see ’em get into the carriage.” So we went, and stood. Purty soon out they comes. I stares and stares, and then I begins tu clasp my hands. ‘Oh, ’tain’t,” sez I. ‘‘What?” sez she. “Arter ail my bringin’ up,’ ‘* What is it?” sez she. “Oh!” sez I, ‘‘oh!” ‘‘What is the matter?” sez she. “Tt is” sez I, ‘‘the awful truth sinkin’ intu my mind. It is my brother, Jonathan Grinder, and our help, Eveliny Bucksta- , sez I, Pi Were ‘ ‘*Du tell!” sez she. “Stony ’om,” sezI. ‘*Tell the minister I won't have it.” “He said fur you tu speak then, or ever arter hold your , tongue,” sez she. So he had, and I’d kept my head shut, and the time was past. b ‘*Come2 with me,” sez I, and the young gal went. We got tu the cousin’s house in about ten minutes, and found em all at dinner. In I goes, and before ‘em I stands like a sperit. ‘“‘Wretches !" sez I. ‘‘ Behold her you hev betrayed |” ‘“‘Tand o Hiberty!” sez the cousin ‘‘Is it his fust wife? Scratch his eyes out! Qh, the fiend !” Sez Eveliny, ‘‘ It aint nobody but Miss Charity.” GComicbooks mm ;