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"Oh, Mollie, if you only wouldn't talk so much," sighed Grace, turning with an air of resignation from the mirror. "As soon as you begin to talk everything goes wrong. My gloves walk under the bed, and my hair stands on end " "Goodness," cried Mollie, looking injured, "anybody'd think I was a ghost. I'll stand for being called lots of things, but a phantom Ouch! Now what's the idea?"
Anybody'd go to hell to get warm a night like this." "You are a very pretty girl," said the man. He was warmly dressed; his was not the thin blood of poverty. He could not have appreciated what she was feeling. "You're sure you want to go? You're sure it's your your business?" "Yes. I'm strange in this part of town. Do you know a place?" An hour later Etta went into the appointed restaurant.
I ain't goin' to have Bolton folks an' all on 'em down to the Centre twittin' us, nor twittin' Packer; he'll turn sour toward everybody the minute he does it. I know Packer; he's rough and ugly, but he ain't the worst man in town by a good sight. Anybody'd be all worked up to go through so much talk, and I'm kind o' 'fraid this minute his word's passed to Ferris to have them trees down.
He couldn't remember that excellent thing he had been going to say about Romanists. But he sniffed derisively, and flung over his shoulder: "To hear you goin' on, anybody'd think the Jesuits were the only Christians. As if there weren't others, who " "Oh, yes, Christians with gold shovels and Winchester rifles. I know 'em.
"I imagine that wouldn't have been particularly soothing," interrupted Grace, reaching, as always, for the ever-present candy box, "especially with poor Allen's back in the condition it was." "Yes," said Allen with a grimace, "if anybody'd started to patting me at that time, I'd have returned pat for pat only mine wouldn't have been gentle. Two cents for your thoughts, Betty.
"How?" "Remember me this morning telling you how I'd left my saddle-blanket out all night and then going out in the corral for the same. I said it so Jack could hear me. He did hear me, and he watched me go. He saw me go out round the corral, and he saw me come back without the saddle-blanket. Now anybody'd know I wouldn't leave my saddle-blanket out behind the corral, would I?" "Not likely."
"Your remarks are incomprehensible to me, but your tone is very offensive; and if you have any business with me, I'd thank you to state it at once." "Joe," said the sheriff, looking at him with a benign smile, "you play it pretty well. Anybody'd think you were innocent as a lamb. But it won't work, Joseph it won't work, I tell you.
"Anybody'd 'a' done that, mither, such a lady as she is!" "What'll ye be doin' of her after I'm gone? The pirate father'll come a-claimin' of her." Jamie looked as if the pirate captain then might meet his match. "Jamie, my son have ye never thought o' marryin' her your own sel'? I'd like to see you with a wife before I go." There was no doubt that Jamie was blushing now.
If 'twas somethin' well, s'pose somebody said you was a Chinyman, wouldn't you prove you wa'n't?" "Why," said the cap'n mildly, "anybody'd see I wa'n't, minute they looked into my face. Nobody'd say anybody was a Chinyman if they wa'n't." Mariana was able to laugh a little here, though a tear did run over her cheek in a hateful, betraying way. She wiped it off, but the cap'n saw it.
She looked about her as if she owned the room, the old china, and the house. "That's real good of you, Jared," she said movingly. "I sha'n't ever forget it. But you see for yourself. I don't want for nothin'." "I guess we should ha' thought 'twas queer, when you went trottin' by to school," he said irrelevantly, "if anybody'd told you you'd reign over the old Knowles house."
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