1 'Mrs. Shimerda is made up her mind,' he added.
2 'Maybe so, Mrs. Shimerda,' grandmother said dryly.
3 Mrs. Shimerda sat crouching by the stove, Antonia was washing dishes.
4 Mrs. Shimerda opened the door before we knocked and seized grandmother's hand.
5 Mrs. Shimerda snatched off the covers of two barrels behind the door, and made us look into them.
6 That night, while grandmother was getting supper, we opened the package Mrs. Shimerda had given her.
7 Mrs. Shimerda grumbled, but realized it was important that one member of the family should learn English.
8 Mrs. Shimerda and Antonia always deferred to him, though he was often surly with them and contemptuous toward his father.
9 Before we left, Peter put ripe cucumbers into a sack for Mrs. Shimerda and gave us a lard-pail full of milk to cook them in.
10 There's no good reason why Mrs. Shimerda couldn't have got hens from her neighbours last fall and had a hen-house going by now.
11 Their agreement with him was made before they left the old country, through a cousin of his, who was also a relative of Mrs. Shimerda.
12 Jake and Ambrosch followed them, riding the other black and my pony, carrying bundles of clothes that we had got together for Mrs. Shimerda.
13 Mrs. Shimerda grew more calm and reasonable before our visit was over, and, while Antonia translated, put in a word now and then on her own account.
14 When Mrs. Shimerda opened the bag and stirred the contents with her hand, it gave out a salty, earthy smell, very pungent, even among the other odours of that cave.
15 It developed that Mrs. Shimerda and Ambrosch wanted the old man buried on the southwest corner of their own land; indeed, under the very stake that marked the corner.
16 Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness, until Jake arrived with the hamper, as if in direct answer to Mrs. Shimerda's reproaches.
17 It was the first time Mrs. Shimerda had been to our house, and she ran about examining our carpets and curtains and furniture, all the while commenting upon them to her daughter in an envious, complaining tone.
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