Oh , yes ! He knows that , and so do I ! He , he ! '' Peg chuckled quite fiendishly and Stephen Grant tried to look as if nothing had been said . `` Oh , will the minister never come ? '' moaned Felicity in my ear . `` Surely she 'll have to stop then . '' But the minister did not come and Peg had no intention of stopping . `` There 's Maria Dean . '' she resumed . `` I have n't seen Maria for years . I never call there for she never seems to have anything to eat in the house . She was a Clayton and the Claytons never could cook . Maria sorter looks as if she 'd shrunk in the wash , now , do n't she ? And there 's Douglas Nicholson . His brother put rat poison in the family pancakes . Nice little trick that , was n't it ? They say it was by mistake . I hope it WAS a mistake . His wife is all rigged out in silk .
Yez would n't think to look at her she was married in cotton -- and mighty thankful to get married in XXXXX , it 's my opinion .
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