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'T ain't my way, but somehow, when such a night as this is like t' be settles down, it don't seem anythin' more'n friendly fur me t' bear the Light company." So Janet cleared the dinner away; she found little tasks to fill the darkening hours, and with eagerness prepared the tray for Davy and took it aloft at sundown.
"But all that was right in the first of it before she took the baby. I'm free to confess 't I think he c'd 'a' stood anythin' 'f she hadn't took the baby. It was the baby as used him all up.
Before I can restore them conditions, the queen falls to lose; an' not havin' no copper on my bet, of course, I'm impoverished for that hundred as aforesaid. You knows the roole every bet goes as it lays. Said statoote is fully in force in Tucson; an' declinin' to allow anythin' for wild shootin' by that fool marshal, them outcasts corrals my chips.
He threw the vegetable dipper back into the bucket and declared that a man might as well try to drink out of a sifter. "Any news over yo' way, Laz?" "Don't believe thar's anythin' wu'th dividin'." "Nobody shot or cut?" "Let me see. Reckon you hearn about Oscar Pryor." "No, not sence he borrid five dollars of me. What about him?"
They're goin' after fairin's for their sweethearts, the way you'd be yourself if you worn't too great a naygur. Or, maybe, there isn't anythin' good enough for her to be had in Ballybrosna is that the raison of it?"
This strange man, unlike her aunt, seemed to be the very person to talk to on the one really vital subject to Peg. She said breathlessly: "Sure me father can do anythin' at all except make money. An' when he does MAKE it he can't kape it. He doesn't like it enough.
"I reckoned a minute ago there was a sick gal in the house! Who's going to make a row now! Who's going to stamp and tear round, eh?" Jeff sank back on his chair. "I said thar was a woman," continued Bill; "thar allus is one! Let a man be hell-bent or heaven-bent, somewhere in his track is a woman's feet. I don't say anythin' agin this gal, ez a gal.
"I can do a bit with the mouth-organ," said Jonah, off his guard. He turned red with shame at this vulgar admission but the young woman only smiled. "Well, about the boy," said Jonah, anxious to change the subject, "I'd like yer to take 'im in 'and, if yer could make anythin' of 'im." "I should be very pleased," said the young woman.
What would he do, she wanted to know, if the boat ran upon a rock and sank. "Would you care for anythin' but savin' yourself? Should I? No, no," she laughed, "not one scrap don't tell me. There's only two creatures the ordinary woman cares about," she continued, "her child and her dog; and I don't believe it's even two with men. One reads a lot about love that's why poetry's so dull.
"You'll get your moustache all mussed up if you don't." The boy withdrew his face, and, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, regarded the offender closely. "So long as it don't turn it red I don't mind," he said patiently, "and I don't think as 'ow your swipes would hurt anythin'."
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