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"Now come along!" he said. "You're main old, but ye must put yer best foot foremost all the same. We've more'n an hour's trampin' up hill an' down dale, an' the dew's beginnin' to fall. Keep goin' slow an' steady I'll give ye a hand." For a moment Helmsley hesitated.
If I'd 'a' had my hand read last spring before I come up here to this range I bet I'd 'a' missed the trap I stumbled into. I'd 'a' been warned to look out for a dark woman, like I was warned once before, and I bet you a dime I'd 'a' looked out, too! Oh, well, it's too late now. I guess I was fated." "Everybody's fated; we're all branded." "I've heard it said, and I'm beginnin' to believe it.
Another feller, 'a course, he had t' up an' say it was a lie he seen all what was goin' on an' he never seen us from th' beginnin' t' th' end. An' a lot more struck in an' ses it wasn't a lie we did fight like thunder, an' they give us quite a send-off. But this is what I can't stand these everlastin' ol' soldiers, titterin' an' laughin', an' then that general, he's crazy."
Well, when I was a beginnin' to git better o' that terable sickness, the fust and only one I ever had in my life, Miss Campbell, she used to send Jinny up, with bits o' briled chicken, nice broth and sech, to kinder tempt my appetite like.
She did look very white and faint, and Jennie saw it, and tried to be calm, though she kept whispering to herself as she gathered up the debris on the floor, and with a most rueful expression took it down stairs, saying to her mistress: "An' faith it's a bad beginnin' I've made, mum, but sure an' I'll pay you every farthing with me first wages, and now, if you plase, I'll do up my fut, for it's blistered, that it is, with the bilin' tay."
The' wasn't a thing the matter with her health an' we all wondered what was her reason; but I had my own private opinion she was beginnin' to find out she was a girl, an' she wasn't quite used to it. We finally rounded up in the big bend of Spike Crick, an' the stuff was in the suet, every one of 'em.
Folk'll know I s'pose they know already that she's been here with him. They'll suspect a lot more and the truth is better than suspicion that is, it can't be worse than the suspicions that come natural to a good many minds in this town. I am glad I can tell you, for I guess the time's come to step out in broad daylight and h'ist our colors. Now, you listen. Here 'tis, from beginnin' to end."
Macy says when Johnny handed her the card at the post office she like to of died then an' there. Why, she says they was too bad to put in a book, even they was too bad to even send Mrs. Lupey!" "Wh " asked Mrs. Lathrop. "Then on Monday last still another new kind begin an' they've been comin' more an' more each mail. They was the convention itself beginnin' on her.
And ef seven shall catch a hold on him, and, as I jist proved, seven will catch a hold on him, then seven ought, and in the Latter-Day Glory, seven, yea, as our Lord said un-tew Peter, 'Verily I say un-tew you, not seven, but seventy times seven, these seventy times seven shall catch a hold and cleave. Blessed day! For the end shall be even as the beginnin', and seventy-fold more abundantly.
Look at me, an' take warnin' so you won't make the same mistake an' go to makin' an' sellin' fancy work again.... "But I fooled 'em everybody. At the beginnin' the bettin' was even. By the sixth round the wise gazabos was offerin' two to one against me. I was licked from the first drop outa the box anybody could see that; but he couldn't put me down for the count.
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