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I've had such a splendid time here with you all the while they've been shut up sick, that no matter how long they stay in the Pine Woods, it couldn't make up for all they've missed by not being me." "Do you really feel that way about it, dear?" cried Elizabeth, much pleased and touched at the child's unlooked-for declaration. "You just better b'lieve I do! Why, I've had just the nicest time!
"How I wish I could read, why can't I?" asked Tidy; and the little colored face was turned up full of animation. "I don't b'lieve but I could learn as well as you." "Why of course you could," answered Amelia, who had risen quite refreshed by her short nap. "I don't see why not. You can't go to school you know, because mother wants you to work; but I could teach you just as well as not."
"I don't think we would have to ask much, 'cause she thinks cirkises are bad, and I don't b'lieve she would like to have us there." "What makes you so sure? I never have heard her say a thing about them." "She told Hope so the time Hope wanted to see 'Julio and Romiet' when they studied it in school." "That wasn't a cirkis, that was a theatre, Allee. That's different.
Then he made a calm announcement: "There's two of 'em little ones but they 're beginnin' t' have fun with me now. I don't b'lieve I kin walk much furder." They went slowly on in silence. "Yeh look pretty peek'ed yerself," said the tattered man at last. "I bet yeh 've got a worser one than yeh think. Ye'd better take keer of yer hurt. It don't do t' let sech things go.
The irritant brought on a paroxysm of coughing which lasted until the elfish child shook her well, and took the cup from her. "Greedy old beast," muttered this amiable infant, peering into the cup, "ye'd drink the Yarrer dry, I b'lieve." "Yah!" muttered the old woman feebly. "Who's they, Lizer?" she said, shading her eyes with one trembling hand, while she looked at Calton and the detective.
Jim he'd got into debt, an' his oxen died, an' one thing an' another, he was all wore out, an' had rheumatic fever; an' if you'll b'lieve it, Nancy she went over an' done the work, an' let his wife nuss him.
"Yes I did, Granny; don't yer b'lieve dat gal; I said jes' much 'kingdom come' ez she did." And presently Jim would retaliate by saying, "Granny, Polly nuber sed nuf'n 'bout her 'cruspusses." "Lord-ee! jes' lis'n at dat nigger," Polly would say. "Granny, don't yer min' 'im; I sed furgib us cruspusses, jes' ez plain ez anybody, and Ginny hyeard me; didn't yer, Ginny?"
"Well, and what 'ud you say if I showed you a baste ov mine," says his Riv'rence, "that, instead ov fasting till first mass is over only, fasts out the whole four-and-twenty hours ov every Wednesday and Friday in the week as reg'lar as a Christian?" "O, be asy, Masther Maguire," says the Pope. "You don't b'lieve me, don't you?" says his Riv'rence; "very well, I'll soon show you whether or no."
"Freddie, you be coachman," coaxed Flossie, "because we are inside and have to have someone drive us." "But who will put out all the fires?" Freddie asked, as he clanged the bell vigorously. "Make b'lieve they are all out," Flossie told him. "But you can't make b'lieve about fires," argued the little fellow, "'cause they're really." "I tell you," Nan suggested.
Now Bob, like all men in his condition, was quite certain that he was in perfect possession of his faculties, and therefore he very naturally resented such an absurd assertion. "Don't you b'lieve it," he protested. "I know what I'm doing, all right, all right." "A man never speaks his mind until he's ginned," Lilas giggled. "Righto! I'm not half drunk yet."
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