"[...] Mrs. McGuire, however, did hear. "My stars, Susan Betts, it's lucky your bark is worse than your bite!" she exclaimed. "Mend 'em, indeed! They won't be dry before you've got your darnin' egg in 'em." Susan laughed ruefully. Then she sighed: -at arms' length she was holding up another pair of yawning socks. "I know it. And look at them, too," she snapped, in growing wrath. "But what's a body goin' to do? The boy'd go half-naked before his father would sense it, with his nose in that paint-box. Much as ever as he's got ...
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"[...] Mrs. McGuire, however, did hear. "My stars, Susan Betts, it's lucky your bark is worse than your bite!" she exclaimed. "Mend 'em, indeed! They won't be dry before you've got your darnin' egg in 'em." Susan laughed ruefully. Then she sighed: -at arms' length she was holding up another pair of yawning socks. "I know it. And look at them, too," she snapped, in growing wrath. "But what's a body goin' to do? The boy'd go half-naked before his father would sense it, with his nose in that paint-box. Much as ever as he's got sense enough ter put on his own clothes-and he WOULDN'T know WHEN ter put on CLEAN ones, if I didn't spread 'em out for him!" "I know it. Too bad, too bad," murmured Mrs. McGuire, with a virtuous shake of her head. "An' he with his fine bringin'-up, an' now to be so shiftless an'[...]."
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