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Lander, "if we had seen anybody to inquire of." "Yes'm," said the girl. "It a'n't any trouble." "There are not many otha houses about, very nea', but I don't suppose you get lonesome; young folks are plenty of company for themselves, and if you've got any brothas and sistas " "Oh," said the girl, with a tender laugh, "I've got eva so many of them!"
Or something your motha's got her heat set on? Or one of your brothas? My, if you don't have it, some one else will! Do take it!" The girl kept slipping toward the door. "I shouldn't know what to tell them, when I got home. They would think I must be out of my senses." "I guess you mean they'd think I was. Now, listen to me a minute!" Mrs. Lander persisted.
Lander thoughtfully, "as I noticed how many boys there were, or how many girls." "I've got two sistas, and three brothas, 'm," said the girl, always smiling sweetly. She now emerged from the shelter of the door, and Mrs. Lander perceived that the slight movements of such parts of her person as had been evident beyond its edge were the effects of some endeavor at greater presentableness.
"Well, then, I can tell you what, Albe't Landa: yon can go right straight and take back everything you said. I don't want the child, and I won't have her. I've got care enough to worry me now, I should think; and we should have her whole family on our hands, with that shiftless father of hers, and the whole pack of her brothas and sistas. What made you think I wanted you to do such a thing?"
Or something your motha's got her heat set on? Or one of your brothas? My, if you don't have it, some one else will! Do take it!" The girl kept slipping toward the door. "I shouldn't know what to tell them, when I got home. They would think I must be out of my senses." "I guess you mean they'd think I was. Now, listen to me a minute!" Mrs. Lander persisted.
Lander, "if we had seen anybody to inquire of." "Yes'm," said the girl. "It a'n't any trouble." "There are not many otha houses about, very nea', but I don't suppose you get lonesome; young folks are plenty of company for themselves, and if you've got any brothas and sistas " "Oh," said the girl, with a tender laugh, "I've got eva so many of them!"
Lander thoughtfully, "as I noticed how many boys there were, or how many girls." "I've got two sistas, and three brothas, 'm," said the girl, always smiling sweetly. She now emerged from the shelter of the door, and Mrs. Lander perceived that the slight movements of such parts of her person as had been evident beyond its edge were the effects of some endeavor at greater presentableness.
You sut'ny look lak you plumb tukahed out. Come in an' tell me all 'bout yo'se'f, you po' little t'ing. Dese yo' little brothas an' sistahs?" "Yes'm," said Patsy Ann. "W'y, chil', whaih you goin'?" "I don' know," was the truthful answer. "You don' know? Whaih you live?" "Oh, I live down on Douglas Street," said Patsy Ann, "an' I's runnin' away f'om home an' my step-mothah."
"Why don't you know?" he retorted in abated voice. "Them's her brothas and sistas." "And that woman?" "The lady at the conna? That's her motha." When the event was over, and all the things had been said and said again, and there was nothing more to keep the spring and summer months from going up to their rooms to lie down, and the fall and winter months from trying to get something to eat, Mrs.
"Well, then, I can tell you what, Albe't Landa: you can go right straight and take back everything you said. I don't want the child, and I won't have her. I've got care enough to worry me now, I should think; and we should have her whole family on our hands, with that shiftless father of hers, and the whole pack of her brothas and sistas. What made you think I wanted you to do such a thing?"
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