human
I never noticed it before! exclaimed Maria Sharp,
gpt
For mercy's sake, don't swear, Maria, said Mrs. Miller nervously.
human
We've done our best, and let's hope that folks will look up and not down. It isn't as if they were going to set in the chandelier; they'll have something else to think about when Nancy gets her hemlock branches and white carnations in the pulpit vases. This morning my Abner picked off two pinks from the plant I've been nursing in my dining-room for weeks, trying to make it bloom for Christmas. I slapped his hands good, and it's been haunting me ever since to think I had to correct him the day before Christmas--Come, Lobelia, we must be hurrying!
gpt
One thing comforts me, exclaimed the Widow Buzzell, as she took her hammer and tacks preparatory to leaving;
human
Mrs. Buzzell, Mrs. Buzzell! interrupted the minister's wife, with a smile that took the sting from her speech.
gpt
It will be like punishing little Abner Miller; if we think those thoughts on Christmas Eve, we shall surely be haunted afterward.
human
And anyway, interjected Maria Sharp, who always saved the situation,
gpt
I'm going home to get my supper, and come back afterward to lay the carpet in my pew; my beans and brown bread will be just right by now, and perhaps it will rest me a little; besides, I must feed 'Zekiel.