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He's your hired man, he would do as you told him to," sez I. "For a Methodist deacon such acts are demeanin' and disgustin' for a pardner and Jonesville to witness, let alone the country."
"I'm afraid I must be going; I guess I must bid you good-mo'ning." "Why, I believe the child's sca'ed of me! But you needn't be. Don't you suppose I know how you feel? You set down in that chai'a there, and I'll tell you how you feel. I guess we've been pooa, too I don't mean anything that a'n't exactly right and I guess I've had the same feelin's. You think it's demeanin' to you to take it.
Sez he, "But it is so stylish to embrace it, Samantha, and it only costs ten cents." "But," I sez firmly, "you hain't a-goin' to kiss no chunk of Chicago stun, Josiah Allen, or pay out your money for demeanin' yourself." Sez I, "The original Blarney stun is right there in its place in the tower of Blarney Castle in Ireland. It hain't been touched, and couldn't be."
And if you happen to git put out with your pardner, mebby he'll find fault with you, and say demeanin' words about wimmen or sunthin' like that, whilst sweet Portia's eyes are on you, if you feel like reprovin' him sharp, then you'll remember: "The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven, it blesseth him that gives and him that takes."
High, low all it wants is Jack and the Game." I gin him a stern look and sez, "Some knowledge is demeanin' to a perfessor." And he acted puggicky and didn't say another word for a mild or so. But I sot calm and looked away into the entrancin' seen. And all the time we wuz rollin' on towards the volcano.
The demeanin' words that he used about my figger would keep females back from matrimony, if they knew on 'em. But I won't tell. No, indeed!
He said perhaps he wouldn't never have told, only he couldn't bear to be misjudged like he'd always been. "He never done a lick of work after that. He said he couldn't bring himself down to it; that it was demeanin' fo' a person of title fo' to labor with his hands like a nigger or a common white man.
"I'm afraid I must be going; I guess I must bid you good-mo'ning." "Why, I believe the child's sca'ed of me! But you needn't be. Don't you suppose I know how you feel? You set down in that chai'a there, and I'll tell you how you feel. I guess we've been pooa, too I don't mean anything that a'n't exactly right and I guess I've had the same feelin's. You think it's demeanin' to you to take it.
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