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If you'd asked me, I could a-told you to put in yore spare time letting him alone. But a fellow has to buy his own experience." The victor offered his hand to Blackwell. "I had a little luck. We'll call it quits if you say so." "I stumbled over the step," the beaten man snarled. "Sure. I had all the luck." "Looked to me like you were making yore own luck, kid," Bad Bill differed.
"To be sure," Charles continued, "I was bound to learn, and could acquire no younger." He flicked the glossy red backs of his horses with his whip. "You are thinking it an extraordinary education, I know," he added rather sadly. "I hav a-told you this God knows why! Yes, because I like you damnably, and you would have heard worse elsewhere, both of him and of me.
"You will come up and take breakfast with Willie and me, before you go home? My strawberries are in their prime." "I thought you would a-told me to go, an' never come back," he said, stepping out into the moonlight with the elastic tread of twenty-five. He stopped and looked back at her, with a beaming countenance, like a boy's.
"To be sure," Charles continued, "I was bound to learn, and could acquire no younger." He flicked the glossy red backs of his horses with his whip. "You are thinking it an extraordinary education, I know," he added rather sadly. "I hav a-told you this God knows why! Yes, because I like you damnably, and you would have heard worse elsewhere, both of him and of me.
If I'd been plumb sartin in my mind, I'd a-told ye myself not but what I knows," he hastily amended, "thet he meant hit friendly." "Air ye a-goin'?" "I'm studyin' about hit." He awaited objection, but none came. Then, with a piquing of his masculine vanity, he demanded: "Hain't ye a-keerin', Sally, whether I goes, or not?" The girl grew rigid.
Struve shook a fist into the air in a mad burst of passion. "Just watch me blow him higher'n a kite. I know what he is, and I got proof. The Judas! I keep my mug shut and do time while he gets off scot-free and makes his pile. But you listen to me, ma'am. Your friend ain't nothin' but an outlaw. If he got his like I got mine he'd be at Yuma to-day. Your brother could a-told you.
But is does occur to me that you owe me something on the trip." Tilda stiffened. "You can put us ashore where you like," said she; "but one d. is all I 'ave in my pocket, as may be 'twould a-been fairer t' a-told yer." The young man laughed outright and cheerfully as he headed the canoe for shore.
"To be sure," Charles continued, "I was bound to learn, and could acquire no younger." He flicked the glossy red backs of his horses with his whip. "You are thinking it an extraordinary education, I know," he added rather sadly. "I hav a-told you this God knows why! Yes, because I like you damnably, and you would have heard worse elsewhere, both of him and of me.
You can eat um or leab um alone, Miss Caterpillar!" said little Pitapat, firmly. Capitola laughed. "Patty" she said, "you are worthy to be called my waiting maid!" "And Lors knows, Miss Caterpillar, if it was de wittels you was a-frettin' arter, you ought to a-told me before! Lors knows dere's wittels enough!"
I never saw her so cheerful. She's been runnin' on in the kitchen like a fifteen-year-old child. I declare I can't keep from liking her. You must a-told her some'n about Toot Wambush." "I did," admitted Harriet. "Mother, I've been standing in her way. I believe he likes her, and will marry her now that I have given him his last answer." "Do you really, daughter?"
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