Hugh Pendexter

Name: The Will of Widow Peevy
Author: Hugh Pendexter

The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

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“The Will of Widow Peevy”, published in 1907, is a work by Hugh Pendexter. It explores elements such as storekeeper, Currier and Jessup.

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Hugh Pendexter, The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

“ And buttoning his coat he walked stiffly to the door.
"There goes a man," bitterly sneered the storekeeper, "that would bite the hand that feeds him. Don't see how he gits any pleasure out of life. Always gunning for the dollars and cents."
"Shouldn't want him to manage my property," declared the penniless Mr. Jameson.
The highway commissioner, who had been smoking furiously, now laid aside his pipe and eyed the nails with loathing as he compared his hard lot with the prospective riches awaiting the selectman, and he sighed, "Wal, I guess Currier will git it." ”

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Hugh Pendexter, The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

“ Else why be a hermit? Thus to the neighborhood at large it was sufficient to know Hiram had led a life of seclusion and had executed a will, and Mrs. Peevy was an heir and a person of importance in the district. So through all the web and woof of accredited rumor ran only one unusual thread: the designation of the executor, with some doubt as to the possibility of the squire's serving.
"They was enemies for a lifetime," sighed Aaron Jessup, the general storekeeper, as the circle about the stove paused for a second. "If the squire don't want to act, it would do him credit to say so. ”

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Hugh Pendexter, The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

“ She turned her head slowly and her eyes rolled in mute rejoinder before she groaned, "Squire, some folks hanker to have their walls covered with costly traversties, but I'd be content to live and be a modest heir. I'd shake hands only I'm too pesky weary. To think, after losing Caleb in the war and having a mortal hard time of it on twelve dollars a month pension ever since, I've got to die jest as I'm made a heir."
"Don't talk that way, Melly. Why think of dyin'? Why not make an effort to live?" ”

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Hugh Pendexter, The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

“ Currier, who had assumed a defiant attitude, lost in rigidity a bit as the newcomer's presence relieved the situation, but he did not linger to make conversation and only nodded to the squire in retreating to the door.
"Currier's going early, ain't he?" murmured the squire wearily, his thoughts still busy with Hiram's vital omission.
The storekeeper gave a short, hard laugh, more expressive than any words, while Mr. Phillpot rose and snapped, "Yas, danged early. So be I. But It's different in my case. I have to work for a livin' an' can't expect no help from nobody." ”

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Hugh Pendexter, The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

“ How much is the legacy?"
"Wal, it's——"
"No," she shuddered, "don't tell me. It might be so much it would make it harder for me to pass out. I want to quit as easy as I can."
He heeded no questions from the household as he sorrowfully entered the carriage and turned his horse toward Otisville. As she had wailed, fate was surely against her. If the little legacy—he knew it couldn't be much—had come a week earlier, she now would be rejoicing in one triumph at least. ”

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Hugh Pendexter, The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

“ Currier's eyes narrowed as he met the storekeeper's gaze and he drawled, "Why, I guess she's got a good home at my place, ain't she? I don't know of any place in No. 6 where she is more welcome, or where she has come more often, even before she was a heir. I agree with Jameson. It's only nat'ral she should will what she can't live to enjoy to her best friends." ”

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Hugh Pendexter, The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

“ Currier slowly, "I guess it won't make no difference to poor Melly. She's sick abed at my house. Come over to help with th' fall sewin'. An' th' doctor said this mornin' there wa'n't no help for her. She's awful unlucky. Mebbe she'd have lived if she hadn't been a heir."
"You don't say so?" gasped Jessup, now leaning over the counter, intensely interested. "And who gits the property if she dies? She ain't got a single relation,"
"I swan!" cried Mr, Jameson from the door ”

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Hugh Pendexter, The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

“ Mr. Jameson's aged eyes twinkled as he experimented in painting the lily by observing, "She ain't no call to remember me, although I've tried to be a good friend to her. Worked like a dog to help her git her pension, ye know. But if she ain't goin' to divide it, I should say Jessup is th' only man who stands any show or right to git it, an' I don't care a cuss what Currier expects."
"I wish she could live to enjoy it," sighed the storekeeper, smiling sadly on the old man. "She's a good woman and the three——"
"Five," insisted Mr. ”

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Hugh Pendexter, The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

“ Phillpot.
"I always said you was a keen student of human natur', Philly," admired the storekeeper. "You know, it surprised me Hiram didn't pick Currier as executor. But the squire! Lawd, how they use to fight!"
"It was all so long ago an' Hiram has forgiven him," protest Mr. Currier suspiciously scrutinizing a mutilated nickel in his money and finally pushing it back for a box of matches.
"Some men have long mem'ries," remarked old man Jameson as he appropriated a checkerberry wafer with a deftness not to be expected in one so rheumatic.
"Wal, Melly ought to git something," insisted Mr. ”

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Hugh Pendexter, The Will of Widow Peevy (1907)

“ Better times are in store for ye."
"I know," she whimpered; "you mean the legacy. Everyone that's been in to see me has been talking about it. Lawd! if I could have had it last week I wouldn't have been took this way. I went over to the village to see if they'd let a old veteran's widder into a 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' show at half price. They wouldn't, and I stayed to the open-air concert and got caught in the rain. If I'd had my legacy I'd paid full fare and got a chance to ride home. But, no ”

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