Pemberton and Corliss went out together. Then Stevey Todd spoke up
cautiously:
"When I look at it," he said, "when I asks myself: 'Is he right or
is he not?' I don't hear no objections. And further," he said,
leaning forward and speaking low, "it's my opinion there's a woman
out there."
Uncle Abimelech lifted his eyes from the kettle that hung over the
fire, and stared about and seemed to be alarmed.
"Where?" said Uncle Abimelech.
Stevey Todd pointed over his shoulder with his thumb. Uncle
Abimelech followed the direction slowly along the dark ceiling, and
seeing nothing alarming there, seemed relieved. He turned back to the
fire and muttered:
"She throwed kettles, some."
Then Corliss came in again and after him Pemberton, and with them
was a tall girl in layers of cloaks and veils, and layers of snow,
which being taken off, she came out as balmy and calm as a tropic
coast, and enough to make a man forget his old troubles and lay in
new ones. Captain Buckingham only looked at her, and said nothing.
Corliss was a slim young man with a candid manner. For two that had
run away to look for matrimony in the snow they both seemed
remarkably calm.
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